OLED monitors grow another 69%, annual OLED monitor sales reach 3.4 million units

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Growth is forecast to remain steady with high demand and OLED monitors are forecast to sell 8 million units per year by 2028

These figures exclude TVs, handhelds etc


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They'll grow even more as they add even more variety of sizes & specs. It also helps that the tech is becoming increasingly affordable.
 
Yes, well, it doesn't really surprise me. Certainly, my usual supplier, all of the expensive monitors are OLED.

It just goes to show that the people going on about burn-in don't represent the majority of buyers. But then, I have never thought that the vocal "enthusiasts" on internet forums represent the average buyer.

I'm still wary of burn-in, even though I shouldn't be.
 
Its also worth remembering that OLED is not the first panel technology that has burn in risk, there have been other panels on the market with the same risk and guess what, people still bought those in droves

The average person buying an oled probably doesnt even know about burn in, they just walk into a shop, see the vibrant colours of an oled screen and buy it
 
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Grim5 said:
Its also worth remembering that OLED is not the first panel technology that has burn in risk, there have been other panels on the market with the same risk and guess what, people still bought those in droves

The average person buying an oled probably doesnt even know about burn in, they just walk into a shop, see the vibrant colours of an oled screen and buy it
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Your probably right.
 
The burn in risk is very use case specific. I WFH 3 days a week and have the same apps open for a long time each day, and use the monitor for media, gaming and photo editing in my downtime. I'd imagine it gets around 2000 hours of use a year. That's enough that I wouldn't risk OLED with a 3 year burn in warranty.

The bigger issue for me with OLED is VRR flicker.
 
I guess this is good, but I would prefer them to focus on bigger sizes, stop making 27" monitors, I may be wrong, but that size is kinda mediocre, for OLED I would say 32" is minimum, but try and make more 40" - people like big screen, better for eyes. I used 40" for last 10 years and every time I need to use smaller one, i feel its not good. Thats my opinion.
 
phinix said:
I guess this is good, but I would prefer them to focus on bigger sizes, stop making 27" monitors, I may be wrong, but that size is kinda mediocre, for OLED I would say 32" is minimum, but try and make more 40" - people like big screen, better for eyes. I used 40" for last 10 years and every time I need to use smaller one, i feel its not good. Thats my opinion.
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It wouldn't surprise me if a 27" is the most popular size monitor these days.
 
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The burn in risk is very use case specific. I WFH 3 days a week and have the same apps open for a long time each day, and use the monitor for media, gaming and photo editing in my downtime. I'd imagine it gets around 2000 hours of use a year. That's enough that I wouldn't risk OLED with a 3 year burn in warranty.

The bigger issue for me with OLED is VRR flicker.
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Yeah, I burned in my OLED monitor within 7 months haha.

VRR flicker is real, I ended up turning it off and using VSync.
 
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The burn in risk is very use case specific. I WFH 3 days a week and have the same apps open for a long time each day, and use the monitor for media, gaming and photo editing in my downtime. I'd imagine it gets around 2000 hours of use a year. That's enough that I wouldn't risk OLED with a 3 year burn in warranty.

The bigger issue for me with OLED is VRR flicker.
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I've just replaced a 48" LG C1 OLED that had a couple of burn in issues, firstly the outline of my browser title bar as I used it as my main WFH display through the entire lockdown, and one half of the display was slightly darker than the other as I tended to split the display and often one half would be displaying a pure black (and therefore off) image.

Also, I used the service menu to disable all the dimming and image retention reduction stuff to stop it constantly dimming the display which probably didn't help lol.

The replacement is a C4 OLED which I am leaving the retention stuff enabled, and it is a lot less annoying about that stuff than the C1 ever was.
 
cokecan said:
Surely that depends on viewing distance?
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I sit about 60cm from the screen and 42" is enough. I had 27" in the past and it was alwyas too small for full anjoy of gaming - I had it, but felt too small.
Back in the days when Dell 24" (2407) came out, we all jumped on that wagon and felt good after having 19" screens etc
Nowadays when we have all sizes available, I'm sure everyone will feel a lot better having big screens for gaming, unless you play Windows' Solitaire.
 
I would actually enjoy a 24 inch 1440p OLED. Doesn’t seem to be many like me. It took ages for a 24 inch 1440p 165hz monitor to hit the market and at that point I was already at 27 inches.
 
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for office work maybe, but gaming? that small as hell.
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24" monitors are still the most popular for gaming - but 27" 1440p has been growing in popularity as prices have come down.

Playing any competitive game on a monitor over 27" is a bit of a struggle, you really don't want to be moving your head at all to be able to see the edges of the screen.

32" is fantastic for feeling immersed in a single player or co-op game - but I never found it overly comfortable for a competitive FPS game.
 
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