Your experience with OLED burn-in

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Must try and find out how many hours I have put on the screen. You could be comparing apples to oranges

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Still haven't replaced my burnt in C7 yet.

One thing that occurred to me; in the early days people said the burning on those gen TVs was accelerated by having the TV at high brightness, which I indeed was guilty of. These days everything I watch and play has HDR. Doesn't HDR normally crank up brightness to 100% and sort of help cause the problem in the 1st place? Or is HDR not necessarily 100% brightness on newer gen models that are much brighter than my 2017 model in the 1st place?


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I turned the brightness down on mine and avoided gaming in HDR to try and avoid burnin and look how mine screen turned out hah
 

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Bigpig said:
Must try and find out how many hours I have put on the screen. You could be comparing apples to oranges


I turned the brightness down on mine and avoided gaming in HDR to try and avoid burnin and look how mine screen turned out hah
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I meant OLED Light, not Brightness! At this point of the life of my screen I care very little so OLED Light is on 95 for PC Mode :D. I too would love to check the hours (if only to make myself feel better for semi ruining the screen!)

I tried to capture as best as I could with a phone camera. Microsoft Paint, red background, OLED Light set to 100:

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Edit: The sad thing is I can easily identify some of the patterns and shapes from content I have consumed. I can even read Breaking News in the bottom left :D


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rp2000 said:
I meant OLED Light, not Brightness! At this point of the life of my screen I care very little so OLED Light is on 95 for PC Mode :D. I too would love to check the hours (if only to make myself feel better for semi ruining the screen!)

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That’s what I meant also.

I normally keep my viewing in expert dark room 60 or a modified cinema/ expert bright 80.

Mostly expert dark as I know most of us love a good bit of YouTube.

Turns out I need to get into the service menu to get hours viewed.

I do have a harmony remote lying about I might be able to set up to get into the service menu.
 

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Bigpig said:
That’s what I meant also.

I normally keep my viewing in expert dark room 60 or a modified cinema/ expert bright 80.

Mostly expert dark as I know most of us love a good bit of YouTube.

Turns out I need to get into the service menu to get hours viewed.

I do have a harmony remote lying about I might be able to set up to get into the service menu.
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At this point (based on your photos) just crank up the settings, it can't get much worse :D

I don't have a mobile phone with an IR blaster, otherwise I'm fairly sure that can get into the service mode.

I partly blame the TV anyway. If it had screensaver mode on all the HDMI inputs then this never would have happened. I use all the built in streaming apps but there is no Netflix, Amazon, Disney related burnin as those apps go to screensaver after a minute of inactivity.


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Still rocking a C7 - many hours of gaming over the years and the better half many more times that watching TV and no burn in yet. A handful of times there's been some retention that soon went away.
 

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First time in this thread.. Coming in as someone who has had a Panasonic GT60 plasma for >10 years and not had any burn-in, currently looking at upgrading to OLED… Should I even be concerned or thinking about burn-in? Or just treat whatever I get the same as my plasma and I’ll be fine? No kids, no pets ( :p ), just a girlfriend who is relatively well trained!
 

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First time in this thread.. Coming in as someone who has had a Panasonic GT60 plasma for >10 years and not had any burn-in, currently looking at upgrading to OLED… Should I even be concerned or thinking about burn-in? Or just treat whatever I get the same as my plasma and I’ll be fine? No kids, no pets ( :p ), just a girlfriend who is relatively well trained!
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No requirement to worry, especially on the newer sets where the issue is pretty much non-existent. I've had OLED for 10 years now I think.
 

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I've a really old LG C6 (still does 3D!), a Sony 83A90J, and an Alienware 3424DW. No burn in on any of them. I have always used Screensavers on all of them set to a low number of minutes. All have been used for PCs or Consoles.
 

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No requirement to worry, especially on the newer sets where the issue is pretty much non-existent. I've had OLED for 10 years now I think.
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Thanks. We won’t be gaming on it nor do we leave news channels on for hours on end.. Didnt think it would be an issue although I hear some new models have heat sinks that can help? :confused:
 

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Have had multiple OLED displays and not experienced any burn in with any of them ( Panasonic and LG displays ).
 
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Still no issues here.

My OLED devices:

1 year old Dell aw3423dw monitor
5 year old LG C9 TV
7 year old iPhone X
3 year old iPhone 13 Pro Max

these devices are all used daily and so far have no burn in
 
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