Have you calibrated your TV correctly? My parents B7 doesn’t exhibit that behaviour?
Your experience with OLED burn-in
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Caporegime
My B7 burned in so hard it melted, 100% OLED light during 16 hours of CNN news did it, I’ve now got an image of Trump permanently on my panel.
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Are you telling fibs
Both myself and the folks have LG OLEDs, not a hint of any image retention on either.
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Well my dads b6 panel has definitely suffered from burn in. If my link works Thats a clear yellow screen showing lots of green patches. Some arent visible on photo, like sky ep guide rectangle in bottom left corner.
My dads viewing habits are not excessive to any one channel, barely watches the news. The panel has had no gaming on it. He watches a lot of Netflix which doesnt have any permanent logo on it from what I see.
Very dissapointed. Hes now trying to get it sorted via warranty, which is proving difficult.
https://ibb.co/0nNty8T
When you say LED you mean LCD based, or is it a technology that uses millions of diodes like OLED?
Edit: ok, looks like it’s a quantum dot LCD like the rest of the non OLED “LED” screens.
this from oled thread
this is true
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Well my dads b6 panel has definitely suffered from burn in. If my link works Thats a clear yellow screen showing lots of green patches. Some arent visible on photo, like sky ep guide rectangle in bottom left corner.
My dads viewing habits are not excessive to any one channel, barely watches the news. The panel has had no gaming on it. He watches a lot of Netflix which doesnt have any permanent logo on it from what I see.
Very dissapointed. Hes now trying to get it sorted via warranty, which is proving difficult.
https://ibb.co/0nNty8T
B6 is older and a lot of the reports regarding burn in on avforums is in regards to older panels. with each generation burn in has gotten significantly better.
the 7 and now 8 gen. this years 9 gen should be even better.
those that don't have burn in seem to be 7 and 8 gen users. but burn in also takes time so maybe the 7 and 8 gen simply haven't had as much usage as 6 gen users too.
which is why i recommend staying away until it's been confirmed 100% as fixed if you use a lot of static content. let others be the guinea pigs for now. i have been a guinea pig in the past with plasma and it wasn't good having to baby a screen.
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how are a few people on a specialist forum representative of the masses
If anything, it improves the chance of not seeing burn in - prosumers will be aware of the problems before hand, and will actively seek to mitigate the issues through preventative methods such as avoiding news channels; your average Joe may not
Burn in IS a problem, simply due to the nature of the technology. It's organic, and degrades, but at different rates - there isn't the same consistency you see with LEDs, for example, and so you can have 2 identically specced TVs running the same programmes, same settings etc, and one could get burn in, and other may not.
I've encountered burn in on most of my AMOLED devices: Nexus 6P, S7 Edge, S8 and Pixel 2 XL. My XS will likely get it too
On a phone, there's little you can do, but on a TV, I think you're less likely to see it, since you can avoid pretty much everything with static UIs. As someone who primarily plays video games on my TV, I'd definitely think twice about getting an OLED - I wouldn't want to drop >1K and run the RISK (not guaranteed!) of my TV becoming defective, especially since it isn't covered by LG under warranty.
I think ultimately I would end up getting one, because of the horrendous inconsistency of backlight clouding on LCDs and superior contrast ratio of OLED
Even on my galaxy s8, there is no burn in, I've had it since November 2017 too.
My HTC one s had burn in near the end of its 2 year life though but it wasn't bad at all and the only time you could notice it was with all grey etc. slides on and squinting/looking really close at the screen.
As it is, I was worried big time when I first got my OLED TV but now, not in the slightest bit worried given how much time I've played HUD heavy games etc. and chances are when/if burn in does happen, it is going to be hardly noticeable with normal usage, much like the vertical banding on 5% grey slides, looks horrendous in photos but in normal usage, not an issue at all.
My HTC one s had burn in near the end of its 2 year life though but it wasn't bad at all and the only time you could notice it was with all grey etc. slides on and squinting/looking really close at the screen.
As it is, I was worried big time when I first got my OLED TV but now, not in the slightest bit worried given how much time I've played HUD heavy games etc. and chances are when/if burn in does happen, it is going to be hardly noticeable with normal usage, much like the vertical banding on 5% grey slides, looks horrendous in photos but in normal usage, not an issue at all.
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I think I have my OLED calibrated for 122cd^m2 at 53 Backlight and 70 contrast. Greyscale came in nicely about 0.5dE. Before that the contrast and backlight used to hurt my eyes while gaming it was that bloomin bright. My eyes would sting and water from it.
Never had any image retention gaming on it for 6 hours plus straight. Though I cannot comment on news channels as I never watch them since they're cesspit toxic channels.
OLED and Plasma though, still love the VT50 Plasma. It'll be 5 years soon.
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Got a 65” LG C7 for over a year now and no burn in what so ever.
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I have a three year old lg oled. I occasionally see some retention on it, but I don't have any permanent burn in.
I think as long as you are sensible with it, you won't see any problems.
However, I definitely wouldn't have bought an oled for extended console gaming. Mine mainly gets used for movies and TV series.
It's been a fantastic TV though.
I think as long as you are sensible with it, you won't see any problems.
However, I definitely wouldn't have bought an oled for extended console gaming. Mine mainly gets used for movies and TV series.
It's been a fantastic TV though.
Soldato
RTings posts results of burn in tests. If your veiwing is varied then you should have no problems, watching channels with saturated banners will more likely cause burn in if on these channels for majority of the time.
https://youtu.be/nOcLasaRCzY
https://youtu.be/nOcLasaRCzY
If it's anything like plasma then if you're responsible enough retention will be a far bigger problem, you'd have to be totally mindless for burn in to happen but that's the problem really, you always have to be conscious of how it's being used and not just binge on something that has a static image on screen for days on end.
Yeah but Plasma clears after a minute or two. Mostly you see it more when first switched on.