Your experience with OLED burn-in

Bigpig · 16 Apr 2023 at 09:51

Some photos.

Not all marks are showing. Bars from gaming are starting to appear. Top and bottom.

I also repeat. I treated this TV with kid gloves. Didn’t game in HDR modes. Purposely turned the brightness down etc. let pixel refresh run when it wanted to.

Netflix is not really showing on photos but I can spot it clear as day sitting on my sofa.

theone8181 · 16 Apr 2023 at 20:16

Bigpig said:
Some photos.

Not all marks are showing. Bars from gaming are starting to appear. Top and bottom.

I also repeat. I treated this TV with kid gloves. Didn’t game in HDR modes. Purposely turned the brightness down etc. let pixel refresh run when it wanted to.

Netflix is not really showing on photos but I can spot it clear as day sitting on my sofa.

What's the shadow from in the first pic? You mentioned netflix and youtube logos, but that looks quite off centre in height.

Bigpig · 16 Apr 2023 at 20:28

theone8181 said:
What's the shadow from in the first pic? You mentioned netflix and youtube logos, but that looks quite off centre in height.

Uneven wear in the centre.

Now it’s not that bad with the naked eye lol.

It’s not as dark and the shape is not as bold as that picture makes it out.

theone8181 · 16 Apr 2023 at 20:32

Fair enough. I've not noticed anything on my c9 but it's in my study not living room so it gets far less use than my main telly.

ChocAndGray · 26 Apr 2023 at 23:40

My last 3 tvs were oled and I’ve had zero issues with burn in. And I use them as pc monitors for gaming.

I had an E9 for 3 years (recently sold on this forum) and uniformity was perfect.

I always had plasmas before that and it was same thing, negative people posting about burn in and saying they were no good for gaming.

I’m not saying there aren’t issues but I think they’re overblown. And I think severe cases of persistent image retention is more likely, that can be solved with pixel refresher, than actual burn in that is irreversible.

I’d rather have no tv at all than consider an lcd and deal with backlight bleed, grey blacks, blooming etc.

The biggest issue for me with oled was grey and above black uniformity but that’s improved massively. It’s the best tv technology for me, even with the risk of burn in.

theone8181 · 27 Apr 2023 at 06:05

It's funny how people mention burn in but overlook back-light failure on less which happened to mine at 4 years old(fortunately from richer sounds) so got it fixed.

stuie · 27 Apr 2023 at 06:09

My b8 is 4+ years old and no burn in I can see so far

200sols · 27 Apr 2023 at 07:24

theone8181 said:
It's funny how people mention burn in but overlook back-light failure on less which happened to mine at 4 years old(fortunately from richer sounds) so got it fixed.

Is back light failure relevant in the OLED burn in thread?

ChrisD. · 27 Apr 2023 at 07:29

theone8181 said:
It's funny how people mention burn in but overlook back-light failure on less which happened to mine at 4 years old(fortunately from richer sounds) so got it fixed.

200sols said:
Is back light failure relevant in the OLED burn in thread?

Maybe, just maybe, his context is about TVs in general, and not necessarily just this thread. And threads on forums which must follow the narrative of the OP would be excessively boring.

xb8browney · 27 Apr 2023 at 07:31

My C9 from June 2020 is doing great.

200sols · 27 Apr 2023 at 07:45

ChrisD. said:
Maybe, just maybe, his context is about TVs in general, and not necessarily just this thread. And threads on forums which must follow the narrative of the OP would be excessively boring.

Why would we start talking about general TV faults in the burn in thread?

ChrisD. · 27 Apr 2023 at 08:26

200sols said:
Why would we start talking about general TV faults in the burn in thread?

Why not?

Grim5 · 27 Apr 2023 at 08:40

Bigpig said:
Some photos.

Not all marks are showing. Bars from gaming are starting to appear. Top and bottom.

I also repeat. I treated this TV with kid gloves. Didn’t game in HDR modes. Purposely turned the brightness down etc. let pixel refresh run when it wanted to.

Netflix is not really showing on photos but I can spot it clear as day sitting on my sofa.

Why is the burn in the shape of a penis?

Grim5 · 27 Apr 2023 at 08:41

theone8181 said:
It's funny how people mention burn in but overlook back-light failure on less which happened to mine at 4 years old(fortunately from richer sounds) so got it fixed.

One of the backlights on my Samsung ks8000 has failed, now the center of the screen looks dimmer than the rest of the screen

hornetstinger · 27 Apr 2023 at 08:57

Grim5 said:
One of the backlights on my Samsung ks8000 has failed, now the center of the screen looks dimmer than the rest of the screen

My pc monitor has a couple of blue/purple LEDs

james.miller · 27 Apr 2023 at 09:20

ChocAndGray said:
My last 3 tvs were oled and I’ve had zero issues with burn in. And I use them as pc monitors for gaming.

I had an E9 for 3 years (recently sold on this forum) and uniformity was perfect.

I always had plasmas before that and it was same thing, negative people posting about burn in and saying they were no good for gaming.

I’m not saying there aren’t issues but I think they’re overblown. And I think severe cases of persistent image retention is more likely, that can be solved with pixel refresher, than actual burn in that is irreversible.

I’d rather have no tv at all than consider an lcd and deal with backlight bleed, grey blacks, blooming etc.

The biggest issue for me with oled was grey and above black uniformity but that’s improved massively. It’s the best tv technology for me, even with the risk of burn in.

That's like owning a brand new car for three years and telling everybody they're built to last. if those panels were 5 years+ and issue free, and that's not an unreasonable expectation, then that would be different.

ChocAndGray · 27 Apr 2023 at 10:03

james.miller said:
That's like owning a brand new car for three years and telling everybody they're built to last. if those panels were 5 years+ and issue free, and that's not an unreasonable expectation, then that would be different.

I see your point. But there’s a misconception by some that oled technology is not suitable for anything like game usage with static huds etc.

In my experience with a tv owned for 3 years for predominantly pc usage, I had zero issues.

Again I’m not saying that because I’ve had no issues it means issues don’t exist, but I feel they’re often overblown.

Modern oleds have made massive progress and they’ve become even more resistant to persistent image retention.

They’re certainly far better than plasma tv’s used to be.

theone8181 · 27 Apr 2023 at 10:51

Grim5 said:
Why is the burn in the shape of a penis?

Must be the most watched content

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theone8181 · 27 Apr 2023 at 12:12

200sols said:
Is back light failure relevant in the OLED burn in thread?

It was aimed as more of a leds aren't perfect either type of comment.

rp2000 · 27 Apr 2023 at 16:08

Still haven't replaced my burnt in C7 yet.

One thing that occurred to me; in the early days people said the burning on those gen TVs was accelerated by having the TV at high brightness, which I indeed was guilty of. These days everything I watch and play has HDR. Doesn't HDR normally crank up brightness to 100% and sort of help cause the problem in the 1st place? Or is HDR not necessarily 100% brightness on newer gen models that are much brighter than my 2017 model in the 1st place?

rp2000