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There is still some fear around burn-in issues with OLED TVs, what has been your experience so far good or otherwise?
Your experience with OLED burn-in
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My experience with burn in has been zero ,there's no signs of it on my 7 month old C8 which gets a varied use gaming included ,however I do not leave Sky sports news on for hours on end ,I have had Oled sets from the Lg 950/960 days and no burn in issues with any set .
I found my old ZT65 to be far worse for image retention ,and ultimately burn in !!
My 2016 OLED C6 suffered from some serious unfixable burn in but it was my own fault i would leave the tv on sky news /bbc for hours at a time and say after a year there was permanent burn in of the sky news banner and logo.
Now i have a 2018 OLED and i stay away from these type of channels now and just watch the news online instead lol.
Now i have a 2018 OLED and i stay away from these type of channels now and just watch the news online instead lol.
Soldato
Im guessing the shop you bought it from didn't refund it?
I can play games for hours (say up to 6 irregularly and often leave the TV on.)
I would consider OLED, but the thought of burn in puts me off (or at least worrying about burn in).
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There's something called ULED XD which is worth keeping an eye on.
LED-based so no burn/retention, but almost OLED blacks.
LED-based so no burn/retention, but almost OLED blacks.
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Still problem of left right colour phase and colours not quite right?
Had my 2017 LG OLED since October/November 2017, no temporary image retention or burn in issues at all, probably clocked up 2000+ hours on it now...... My usage:
- 40% of the time is TV shows (both dolby vision and normal SDR)
- 20% of the time is films (mostly UHD so HDR)
- 40% of the time is gaming (from PC and PS 4 pro, half and half for HDR & SDR)
HDR mode is 100% OLED light setting and SDR OLED light level is at 40%
With regards to "almost blacks", this still just doesn't cut it, my last plasma was and still is probably the second best for "blacks" but compared to OLED, it just pales in comparison so badly, not a deal breaker obviously but imo people under estimate "true" black and an infinite contrast ratio.....
- 40% of the time is TV shows (both dolby vision and normal SDR)
- 20% of the time is films (mostly UHD so HDR)
- 40% of the time is gaming (from PC and PS 4 pro, half and half for HDR & SDR)
HDR mode is 100% OLED light setting and SDR OLED light level is at 40%
With regards to "almost blacks", this still just doesn't cut it, my last plasma was and still is probably the second best for "blacks" but compared to OLED, it just pales in comparison so badly, not a deal breaker obviously but imo people under estimate "true" black and an infinite contrast ratio.....
Soldato
how are a few people on a specialist forum representative of the masses
Never had anything on my B6. It’s been perfect.
My experience of TVs and OLED shows it to be the same as any other tv tech. Leave it on a still image or logo for hours and something is likely to happen. Particularly if you have the settings set ridiculously or leave it on dynamic contrast or something equally strange.
My experience of TVs and OLED shows it to be the same as any other tv tech. Leave it on a still image or logo for hours and something is likely to happen. Particularly if you have the settings set ridiculously or leave it on dynamic contrast or something equally strange.
Soldato
I've had my LG 65EF950V OLED for about three an a half years now. Not once have i had any sign of burn in or image retention, banding or anything else for that matter. Vincent Teoh calibrated it for me a couple of months after i bought it and has just been a stunning tv since then.
Is this your own experience?
AVforums doesn't exactly have "experts", more amateurs who think they are experts on the matter..... Avsforums is far better and has various actual experts who work in the industry that post actively.
https://www.avsforum.com/forum/40-o...r-oled-tv-exhibit-image-persistence-burn.html
https://www.avsforum.com/forum/40-oled-technology-flat-panels-general/2901825-woled-burn-poll.html
https://www.avsforum.com/forum/40-o...r-oled-tv-exhibit-image-persistence-burn.html
https://www.avsforum.com/forum/40-oled-technology-flat-panels-general/2901825-woled-burn-poll.html
Soldato
That’s completely incorrect.
I’ve had many flagship LCD’s and more recently a KS8000 and B7 OLED.
None of the LCD’s would ever show image retention, the KS8000 could be left on a static image for hours with absolutely zero sign of retention. The B7 shows temporary image retention after a few minutes on a static background such as the Xbox dashboard.
The retention only lasts 30 seconds or so but it’s most definitely there and a big downside compared to LCD.
Not sure why it matters really, you don’t need to be a expert to know if you have burn in or not.
I was referring to the post which mentions about avforums being a "specialist" forum.
The majority of the members on avsforums know how to use their TVs unlike the uninformed who just think they can stick their OLEDs at 80+ brightness and watch sky/CNN news for 7+ hours a day, not saying that avsforums is free from these type of people but there is a hell of a lot less of them than there is on avforums.
To me that isn't really your fault, TV should be fit for purpose to watch hours on end full stop.
Soldato
Had ours for nearly 2 years now and not had any issue with burn in and daily usage is close to 10 - 12 hours.