| torok said: I'm quite skeptic of these numbers. OLED on phones is way more common and you can see burn-in popping up on 2 to 3 year phones. Demo devices at stores have severe burn-in after weeks (OK, they are an extreme case, but LCD ones seem way more resilient to that). And you have the Pixel 2 XL with severe issues and mostly seem linked to actual pixel burn out, because they use a black nav bar with white solid buttons (Samsung uses a white nav bar with thin black buttons that are constantly changing position to avoid that). If devices like smartphones, that people use for like 2 to 5 hours a day (screen on-time is usually that) can show problems with burn-in and aging when people hardly stay more than 2 years with a device, it's troublesome. I really, really, don't want to worry about the kind of content I display on my TV. So OLED is a no-go for me. It's my go-to choice for phones since longevity is not that much of a worry (the battery gives up faster). The link you posted is a fantastic test. It's amazing how the LCD ones basically have zero issues while the burn-in is massive in the OLED TV after a bit more than a month. I know it's an extreme case, but it could well happen after 3 or 4 years. |
The scary thing is, it's not even that extreme
- Top and bottom: Letterbox bars present for 2 hours, then absent for 3.5 hours (movie example)
- Top left: 100% solid logo, present for the whole clip (torture test)
- Top right: 50% opacity logo, present for the whole clip (network logo torture test)
- Bottom left: 100% solid logo, present for 2 hours then absent for 3.5 hours (video games example)
- Bottom right: 50% opacity logo, present for 10 minutes then absent for 2 minutes (sports or TV shows example)
And that's running with pixel shift and clear panel noise weekly, the measures to prevent burn-in
It passes the letterbox test so far. Yet even the 50% opacity, 10 minutes on, 2 minutes commercial, starts to become visible after 10 weeks. How would it have coped with me playing BotW on that for 170 hours, plus my kids for half that each. Would the red health hearts be burned into the screen?
Playing GT Sport every night for hours, will the HUD elements become faintly visible while watching tv.
Super Mario Odyssey played for hours in the the afternoon and frequently left on by my kids has static hud elements as well.
OLED looks great in PSVR and luckily static hud elements aren't a problem there as it's never static on the screen itself.
Anyway I don't want to worry about what games are played how long or if any frequently watched content might have harmful logos. I just replaced my old CCFL LCD tv which developed horizontal banding issues. Not a problem during normal content, yet games with smooth gradients like Journey got very ugly on it. It will be interesting to see in that test if the LCD panels still suffer from that. Unfortunately they started with pretty low uniformity panels in the first place. Anyway no striping yet.
