SvennoJ said:
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.
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Agree. I don't actually watch a lot of TV. But I game a lot. I'm playing a lot of Uncharted 4 online, so 2 hours a day with the same HUD is a given. You cases (BotW, GT Sport, Mario) is completely normal. People put a lot of hours on those games and the HUD is mostly static.
A lot of people normally watch several hours of the same channel, so the logo test is reasonable. Sports too. Those numbers are all doable, I have to agree that this test is not extreme, it is not a torture test. It's above average for sure, but even if normal usage takes 10 times longer to achieve the same effect, this test did it in less than 2 months. Hell, even if it takes 20 times longe that is not even 4 years and I don't think people plan to buy 1K dollar TVs every 4 years.
PSVR needs the OLED because of the low image persistence. But it also isn't really something that has to last a decade like a TV. And you also don't use your PSVR 4 hours per day, so that attenuates the issue.
