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[RTINGS] 10 Month Update! Permanent Burn-In OLEDs & QD-OLED Monitors (youtu.be)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Interesting and not so interesting update to RTINGS burn-in test. Quick summary:

  • Most of the OLEDs in their test are holding up pretty well, much better than I was expecting given the early hiccups.
  • For LG WOLEDs its business as usual with no severe burn-in.
  • First generation QD-OLEDs are not doing as well as WOLEDs under RTINGS test condition. This is in part due to software problems such as Samsung requiring you to manually run long compensation cycles until a recent firmware update.
  • Samsung continues their tradition of reducing monitor brightness after release by limiting SDR brightness on their OLED G8 monitor.

Keep in mind that this test is inherently unrealistic as they are stressing these displays way more than 99% of people would ever do. They are continually displaying static content with extremely limited variation in pixel colour for extended periods of time. However they are also only displaying SDR content so this doesnt really represent what continual HDR use might do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that this test is inherently unrealistic

I wouldn't say it's necessarily unrealistic.

They found burn-in with 700 hours of 16:9.

But how long should the monitor go before burning in?

3 years? In 1.5 years, 700 hours of 16:9 is only about 1.2 hours a day of 16:9 content which is not unrealistic in the slightest. Even double that is not unrealistic and burn-in in less than 1 year...

That's certainly problematic.

This is exactly what happened to my monitor. Visible burn-in in 10 months, and 1.5 years on now it's even worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Did you miss the part where they explicitly tested in on the same content the entire time, which makes burn in much worse?

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