Burn-in is the one big worry with OLED monitors. But evidence that it shouldn’t be a dealer breaker for gamers is approaching critical mass thanks to another long-term assessment released today.
YouTube channel Optimum has been using a 32-inch 4K LG WOLED monitor for around 3,000 hours over two years and has found only minor burn-in. This is a particularly handy metric given that one of the best known existing trackers of OLED burn-in by Monitors Unboxed has been based on a monitor with a Samsung QD-OLED panel. Now we have something similar for LG WOLED.
I have outright tortured my screen for the last 2 years and “minor” literally means it can only be seen at 0% brightness on a flat grey screen, and only if you know where it is already. If you go up even a single notch on the brightness it disappears completely.
You will get 10+ years out of them easily, just run the brightness at 25-50% instead of full blast all day.
I have a Gigabyte AO48U and one of the common complaints about it is that it auto-dims when a white background is on but I absolutely love this feature because fuck white backgrounds to death.
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I have outright tortured my screen for the last 2 years and “minor” literally means it can only be seen at 0% brightness on a flat grey screen, and only if you know where it is already. If you go up even a single notch on the brightness it disappears completely.
You will get 10+ years out of them easily, just run the brightness at 25-50% instead of full blast all day.
I have a Gigabyte AO48U and one of the common complaints about it is that it auto-dims when a white background is on but I absolutely love this feature because fuck white backgrounds to death.
Sounds like you won’t get close to 10 years if after 2 the burn in starts
And I gotta keep my brightness down all day too just to be safe?
Lmao that’s simply why I’m not buying one 🤷♀️
Thousand+ dollar monitors degrading after a few years of normal use and that’s somehow acceptable to people…maybe when I’m rich lol