When I worked at target we had an oled that ran a 3 minuteish display loop all day from 8am to 10pm. After a couple years it burned some of the graphics from one of the commercials.
Definitely turned off some buyers when they saw it.
Most of these come from the factory with the brightness and saturated turned way up. Torch mode. That makes the picture look real good a brightly lit show room. We bought our first HD set back in 97 - a rear projection 42" Toshiba. The first thing we did was to turn down the brightness and saturation to match our living room lighting. We replaced it a couple of years ago. Not because of burn in or burn out, but because we wanted a bigger screen. We’ve turned down the brightness and saturation on or new LG QLED, and aren’t expecting burn in issues with this new set. Of course, we can’t predict the future.
Unfortunately, it’s a downside for having a superior display right now.
I replaced my 34" LG Ultra Wide and 27" LG (both Nano IPS …I want to say the 27 is the 27GL850-B and the 34 is the well…34 UW version of the same monitor)) and my QD-OLED (AW3432DWF) blows them both of the water as far as picture quality goes.
Having to take a break every 4 hours (when I should be anyways if I am sitting that long lol) isn’t that big of an issue to me. Plus, it doesn’t HAVE to be run at exactly the 4 hour mark, you can tell it to complete the cycle the next time the computer goes to stand-by / idle. It’s just advisable to run it every 4 hours when prompted to mitigate possible burn-in from static elements.
I’m surprised the store kept that unit out if once it became that bad. A TV running in a store is a extreme situation which is not a good example of what a TV will run like or even look like (crazy color/lighting settings) when used at home.
That was honestly the fault of the store and not really the tv/manufacturer.
I told the manager about it multiple times. The problem is that to replace it the new TV would have had to come out of the store stock, which would look negative on our reports. So they just let it sit there for literally years with the burn in.
It finally got replaced when an LG rep came in and saw it, he had to order one so the store wouldn’t take the hit.
When I worked at target we had an oled that ran a 3 minuteish display loop all day from 8am to 10pm. After a couple years it burned some of the graphics from one of the commercials.
Definitely turned off some buyers when they saw it.
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Most of these come from the factory with the brightness and saturated turned way up. Torch mode. That makes the picture look real good a brightly lit show room. We bought our first HD set back in 97 - a rear projection 42" Toshiba. The first thing we did was to turn down the brightness and saturation to match our living room lighting. We replaced it a couple of years ago. Not because of burn in or burn out, but because we wanted a bigger screen. We’ve turned down the brightness and saturation on or new LG QLED, and aren’t expecting burn in issues with this new set. Of course, we can’t predict the future.
Yeah, that too.
I remember the whole craze of burn in of plasma tv.
I bought panasonic one at the almost end of that technology.
It was beaten doen by my kid with gran turismo, need for speed and terraria.
We talk about whole days 365 days a year, multiple years.
No burn in. That plasma still works. Has like 15 years.
This…isn’t one of my use cases.
+1 the reason I don’t buy OLED is because target show me their test results every day.
A friend of mine picked up an OLED monitor that tells him it needs to be shut off for several minutes every couple of hours…
No thanks. I’ll take my nice WQHD@120hz true 8-bit color IPS screen.
Unfortunately, it’s a downside for having a superior display right now.
I replaced my 34" LG Ultra Wide and 27" LG (both Nano IPS …I want to say the 27 is the 27GL850-B and the 34 is the well…34 UW version of the same monitor)) and my QD-OLED (AW3432DWF) blows them both of the water as far as picture quality goes.
Having to take a break every 4 hours (when I should be anyways if I am sitting that long lol) isn’t that big of an issue to me. Plus, it doesn’t HAVE to be run at exactly the 4 hour mark, you can tell it to complete the cycle the next time the computer goes to stand-by / idle. It’s just advisable to run it every 4 hours when prompted to mitigate possible burn-in from static elements.
I’m surprised the store kept that unit out if once it became that bad. A TV running in a store is a extreme situation which is not a good example of what a TV will run like or even look like (crazy color/lighting settings) when used at home.
That was honestly the fault of the store and not really the tv/manufacturer.
I told the manager about it multiple times. The problem is that to replace it the new TV would have had to come out of the store stock, which would look negative on our reports. So they just let it sit there for literally years with the burn in.
It finally got replaced when an LG rep came in and saw it, he had to order one so the store wouldn’t take the hit.