While burn-in is inherent to OLED technology, manufacturers can compensate for it through software designed to improve the useable life of your panel. Fortun...
It is not meant to be realistic. It is meant to be accelerated. If the TV is fine after watching thousands of hours of CNN with vibrant fixed elements then dark mode desktop users or gamers who play a lot of games with static UI elements should also be absolutely fine.
It is also great for indicating after how many hours you will start to see issues. For some that might happen in less than a year and for others it might be 4/5 years.
Sample size of 1 is an issue but a lot of the panels are used in multiple TVs, the QD OLED is used in both the S95B and A95K and the 2nd gen is in both the S95C and A95L. The WOLED panels LG make are used in a lot of TVs so really the sample size is quite a lot broader than a single panel.
It is not meant to be realistic. It is meant to be accelerated. If the TV is fine after watching thousands of hours of CNN with vibrant fixed elements then dark mode desktop users or gamers who play a lot of games with static UI elements should also be absolutely fine.
It is also great for indicating after how many hours you will start to see issues. For some that might happen in less than a year and for others it might be 4/5 years.
Sample size of 1 is an issue but a lot of the panels are used in multiple TVs, the QD OLED is used in both the S95B and A95K and the 2nd gen is in both the S95C and A95L. The WOLED panels LG make are used in a lot of TVs so really the sample size is quite a lot broader than a single panel.