Looking into a 4K TV, any recommendations?

[Azuren]

Biggerboat1 said:

Azuren said:

Except a little bit more research into their comments on Twitter or YouTube will reveal that it actually is a problem for most gamers.

 

And how many TVs do you deal with on a daily basis? One? Maybe two? I deal with dozens. I also deal with up to three cases of OLED burn-in a week, because I'm manager of an Audio/Video department in a national chain store. So you can speak from others' experience all you want, but I have actual first-hand experience. OLED burns in, it burns in often, and honestly any dunces who buy OLEDs for gaming despite all the warning signs deserve what they get. I'm just here trying to make sure people are as fully aware of the impending burn-in as possible.

I stated earlier that it all depends on use-case & not even how often you game but which games you play as each will have it's own in impact on burn-in. If that's a headache any given consumer can do without then yes, they're better off buying a non-OLED. But if you're willing keep an eye on how much & what you're playing then it really does offer the best experience for gaming, not to mention pretty much everything else.

I'll take you on your word that you receive that many returns for OLED burn-in but I find it odd that there doesn't seem to be 1 OLED owner on this thread with similar issues (who I'd assume are on the upper end of the spectrum for hours gaming...).

Comments & Youtube videos are fine but they really give no indication of the actual scale of the problem - according to comments sections & youtube videos you'd have been forgiven for believing that half of all joy-cons were faulty at launch - when in actual reality we now know this issue was far smaller.

I'm 2 years in with my OLED and have experienced ZERO issues (out of curiosity I cycled through various test screens a couple of nights ago and nothing to report) - so I get a little tired of being told that I should be bitter and/or regret my purchase. Maybe I just lucked out with my set... but again no other owners on this thread seem to be suffering either...

Just out of interest how many OLEDs does your store sell per week?

It sounds less like you play what you want and more like you're a prisoner to your OLED when you put it like that.

 

As far as other people not coming in to post about their burn-in, there's a phenomenon where people vehemently defend products they put their money behind. Even if there was someone here with burn-in on their OLED, it's likely they wouldn't even admit to it because they believe in their product. Anecdotally, there's a guy who works in my department who insists OLED doesn't burn-in and owns one for gaming. When some co-workers and I went to his place for CAH and pizza, I examined his OLED and pointed out where his health bar from Dark Souls was beginning to burn-in. He still denied it.

 

My department sells anywhere from 7 to 15 OLEDs a week, but last week we sold 34. The only OLED burn-in I deal with for customers is burn-in from the first 30 days (return window) or burn-in on TVs with our protection plans in them. Burn-in is otherwise directed to LG, so I don't even deal with 100% of our burn-in.

 

And as a side note that I'm not sure I mentioned yet: LG does not cover burn-in on their warranties.