OLED burn-in hasn’t been an issue for years. Last time I got burn-in was 2014.
All of my screens are OLED (PC monitors, TV, phone, car stereo). The oldest display in my house is from 2019. None of them are showing any signs of burn-in, and I obsessively check for it all the time.
Shhh… quit trying to convince these people, let them have their inferior response times and colours. Less competition for the enlightened, means that prices won’t skyrocket due to an influx of demand.
I have a 55" Samsung plasma TV from 2015 and a 2020 83" Samsung OLEDTV and a 2023 53" Ultrawide Samsung computer monitor.
Each one has hours and hours of use a day. None has burn-in.
The only thing you do notice is the 53" Ultrawide image will shift around every 5 minutes.
Have I just been really lucky or something with OLEDs? Almost all the ones I have had for 5+ years on phones and such, and even my nearly two year old desktop one, have nearly zero burn in.
I’ve had an LG OLED tv for about 5 years, no burn in yet.
I have one from 2008. Still works great. LG OLED.
As of 2010, LG Electronics produced one model of OLED television, the 15-inch (38 cm) 15EL9500.
No offense, but I doubt you have an LG OLED from 2008.
No you don’t. You have LED backlighting on an LCD panel at best, or you don’t know how old your TV is.
Same, 6 years on my end. No complaints
Samsung for 4 years. Same. Never had to run the burn in recovery thing.
This is almost 10 months of continuous use as a monitor spread over 5ish years.
My C1 which I’ve been using as a monitor has no burn in. Gray uniformity is not perfect and there are some minor issues with ghosting on grays but it’s still a better monitor for my uaecase than anything else. I assume newer models are even better.
I got my first OLED (pixel 6 pro) almost 3 years ago with no issues yet, and I got an LG C3 1.5-ish years ago. Still young but newer OLEDs have features built in to prevent burn-in. We’ll see 🤞 the C3 looks incredible.
rooted C8 checking in- no problems at all.
CRT is laughing, and not in its grave, because it will outlast them all.
I was actually thinking what would lead to a Alien Earth type situation where everyone is still using CRT.
The screen will, but my ears won’t. Idk I am just old enough to have been at the tail end of CRTs, but I can’t stand the high pitched whine. They all do that, right?
You can’t hear it much out of your 20’s unless you’re an edge-case-human. The frequencies in question that you’re referring to are ones that almost all humans are deaf to by the time they’re 30.
CRTs whine at ~15kHz, which should be audible until at least your 40s.
I’m 37, and have absolutely destroyed my hearing by always having a loud sound system with booming subs in my car ever since I was a teenager, yet I can still hear up to ~17kHz. I can always tell when I’m in a house with a running CRT.
If you’re younger than me and can’t hear CRTs, can’t tell the difference between FM and HD Radio, or the difference between a 96kbps MP3 and 320k/lossless, then it might be a good idea to get a hearing test.
Not with my tinnitus, which I’ve had to live with since I was about 5 years old.
I have that sound all the time! Got a just degaus it, that’s the best part of CRTs, making it dance.
I’d say it depends on the voltage and hertz you’re running, but yeah, hearing it isn’t anything super special.
I was once so fking annoyed at this “kennel” my former gf got chihuahuas from, because the grower used an “anti-mouse” device and seeing how I could hear it whine, I’m pretty sure the 20 chihuahuas could as well.
2013 Plasma owner, no burn in here!
Same. I did have some retention early in the panel’s life (Investigation Discovery logo) - but that’s vanished and it’s been fine.
2011 plasma and still going strong
2009 plasma here
I think mines from like 03, but it was burnt in when I got it
Also laughing in last generation plasma.
Isn’t oled better these days?
While improvements have been made to management to help they will still all suffer burn in. Use them with any static content and they will show signs of problems within months.
My oled phone from 2021 started slowly developing vertical lines of bad pixels this year and has some burn in on the status bar area. It’s still usable, but definitely kind of annoying and a lot worse than the status of the lcd on the older phone it replaced.
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Miniled is better than both
I have a TV with “Edge LED” since 2017. No HDR but nice picture and still going strong with too many hours of gaming.
Nevermind. It’s regular LCD.
All that edge LED crap was such BS marketing. Even most renditions of the zoned backlighting are trash that makes obvious bright spots and glowing features in the wrong scenes.
Anyone selling a “LED TV” that was just LED backlighting should’ve been fined.
Yup. I got it in 2017 and the backlight of it isn’t bleeding anywhere, the quality itself is very good and it runs on Linux and white it was marketed as smart, it’s pretty dumb - which is good because it never asked me to accept any terms of services since I first turned it on.
I’m looking at my plasma screen from 2010 right now.
2007 1080p LCD still kicking.
Also have one of the tiny CRTs with the VCR built in that is god knows, 80s or 90s.
I also have a 1080p 2007 LCD still kicking. To be fair, any lcd I ever bought is still in great shape. But that one is the oldest.
My CRTs eventually started showing burn in. Also we never had a special one so image quality was ok at best, even compared to our first LCD units, so I can’t say I miss them.
Give it up one more time for old LCDs trucking along, such perseverance, really awesome
I have an LCD screen I got 15 years ago that I still use as a secondary monitor for my PC. It’s 1360x768 so the resolution is low but it’s perfect for YouTube on the side or messaging programs
even my phone got burn in…
My LCDs are nearly two decades old. Insane value
Two years ago I had to throw a screen away, because once I retired an old GPU, I had no device left with a VGA port.
I finally had to replace mine at over 15 years, maybe even close to 20 years, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a panel failure but one of the boards because it just shut off one day and never came back on. And prices had gone down so much in that time I went out and bought two 27” full HD monitors at Costco for what I think is the same or less than what I paid for that 17” SXGA in the early ’00s.
Good chance an electrolytic cap went bad. A little soldering skill and an off chance of electrocution might solve that.
LCD companies don’t want you to know this one weird trick.
So are mine – but the power use is becoming a problem. More modern screens use less than half that at the same size and brightness. Replacement will be necessary soon.
I have a 27 year old LCD that would still be great but the fluorescent tube that backlights it has dimmed. It’s on my trash pile of projects to fix it with an led strip.
