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Why OLED monitor burn-in isn’t a huge problem anymore (arstechnica.com)
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From improvements in the efficiency of OLED materials to software developments and new testing techniques, OLED burn-in risk has been lowered. OLED monitors are generally a more sound investment than ever—at least for the right person.

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Burn in will always be a problem, you can't get rid of it. Sure there are ways to minimize it and monitors can try to hide it, but eventually you will have a task bar, window borders, and desktop icons burned into the screen.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 2 years ago

    True.

    I still have my 1080p LCD monitor from 2010s working fine.

    According to the article OLED has 5% chance to have burn in after 2 years. The article also mentioned Rtings test 10 years usage for OLED monitors.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's in the "nature" of OLED that it eventually wears down. My understanding is that technically, it's not burning in, but burning out, and what's perceived as burn-in is irregular wear of the different color channels or different brightness of the individual pixels (especially with HDR content).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is the nature of all self-emissive displays, even micro-leds as they become more common.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Sure, but it's more pronounced on OLED displays. We'll see how microLED ages once we get some mainstream panels, but as most other display technologies are evenly backlit over the whole display area instead of the pixels emitting light on their own, they wear evenly and the subpixels/color channels don't wear.

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