Time For 4k TV

You can still get burn in from the sun. No joke, if sunlight cast directly over where your TV is mounted or sat then OLED is not for you.

If this was the case with me I would move around my sitting room just to have an OLED TV though. They are simply the best out there.
 
Oled here also c9 with no burn in issues at all and it's a high use TV. I'd say oled still the best all rounder tech so just pick a manufacturer of your choice. One consideration would be ambient light of your room. If it's particularly sunny or the TV sits in an area of the room that gets a lot of direct sunshine I might look at another tech but for most oled will be the winner for.me
 
LG offering free 4 year extra warranty on all OLED`s now i think.

that is huge because 12 months was always pathetic for a TV of those prices.
OLEDs do suffer from fatal screen problems other than burn in, such as a straight line going the full height of the screen.
There are loads of them on ebay with that and OLED phones have it also.

There are T+C`s, im not sure if you have to buy direct from them etc...
 
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Bought my LG OLED in 2017, still going strong, no signs of burn in at all and it's been used almost every day, typically for multiple hours.

I did turn the OLED light down a lot after purchase, only just to get closer to standard SDR brightness. I still often watch HDR on full brightness with no ill effects.

Don't doubt burn in is an issue for some, but to be honest, I could not go back to a regular ol LCD at this stage for my main TV even knowing that. The picture quality still blows me away after all these years, especially where you have HDR content with pure deep blacks and highlights, as well as colour reproduction being really very good (with some tweaks) without any professional calibration.

One thing to bear in mind is if you like watching lots of Blu-ray Discs or movies in 24fps, you may find OLED a bit tricky due to the fast pixel response. 24fps does not feel smooth. You can eliminate this by using the motion interpolation, which I am a fan of, but it's not for everyone due to SOE (soap opera effect) and introduction of processing artefacts (at least on my 2017 set, not sure how good tech has got now).

If you can get one with an extended warranty against burn-in, it's a no-brainer in my opinion.
 
Richer sounds or John Lewis always offer 6 year warranty on there good tvs. I've had a tv break after 5.5 years and richer sounds arranged for it to be picked up and repaired with no charge they also offered me a really good offer on a new oled tv. The repaired tv is still going strong as a bedroom tv 5 years later.
 
I've had a Sony A80J 55" for 20 months. Great picture, no OLED issues, fantastic HDR especially with 4K Blu-ray. Used about 3-4hrs a day for films and streamed TV. Previously had Panasonic and Samsung TVs before, I'd happily buy another Sony.
 
We've enjoyed our Panasonic LZ1000 (John Lewis exclusive in the UK I think) OLED. HDR10+ and Dolby Vision support and also has a heatsink on the panel. Sound is pretty meeeh, but it's going through an amp anyway, so doesn't really matter. Inbuild apps work, but we use a firestick anyway.

The new MZ1000 is coming sometime soon as well. By the sounds of it, it's a reasonable step up.

Have added a good Panasonic 4k Bluray player as well, found they can be modded to be region free for DVD and Bluray. ;)
 
I've got a horrifically old (2017) OLED (65E6V) and don't suffer burn in with normal viewing, that being said I don't go looking for it, just saying I don't see any on a daily basis.
 
OLED65B6V had it since 2017 , no sign of screen burn pretty much used everyday for around 6-8 hours for general TV use and watching 4K movies / sports 4K hdr
 
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