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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

I have a 55" Samsung plasma TV from 2015 and a 2020 83" Samsung OLEDTV and a 2023 53" Ultrawide Samsung computer monitor.

Each one has hours and hours of use a day. None has burn-in.

The only thing you do notice is the 53" Ultrawide image will shift around every 5 minutes.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

OLED burn-in hasn't been an issue for years. Last time I got burn-in was 2014.

All of my screens are OLED (PC monitors, TV, phone, car stereo). The oldest display in my house is from 2019. None of them are showing any signs of burn-in, and I obsessively check for it all the time.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

Shhh… quit trying to convince these people, let them have their inferior response times and colours. Less competition for the enlightened, means that prices won’t skyrocket due to an influx of demand.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

I'm looking at my plasma screen from 2010 right now.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't quite understand this post. Is it saying that LCD panels suffer much more severe burn-in than OLED over a longer time period?

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

The exact opposite actually. All the lcd I have are over 10 years old. They don't give up.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

CRT is laughing, and not in its grave, because it will outlast them all.

I was actually thinking what would lead to a Alien Earth type situation where everyone is still using CRT.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

The screen will, but my ears won’t. Idk I am just old enough to have been at the tail end of CRTs, but I can’t stand the high pitched whine. They all do that, right?

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can't hear it much out of your 20's unless you're an edge-case-human. The frequencies in question that you're referring to are ones that almost all humans are deaf to by the time they're 30.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

CRTs whine at ~15kHz, which should be audible until at least your 40s.

I'm 37, and have absolutely destroyed my hearing by always having a loud sound system with booming subs in my car ever since I was a teenager, yet I can still hear up to ~17kHz. I can always tell when I'm in a house with a running CRT.

If you're younger than me and can't hear CRTs, can't tell the difference between FM and HD Radio, or the difference between a 96kbps MP3 and 320k/lossless, then it might be a good idea to get a hearing test.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Not with my tinnitus, which I've had to live with since I was about 5 years old.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I have that sound all the time! Got a just degaus it, that's the best part of CRTs, making it dance.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I'd say it depends on the voltage and hertz you're running, but yeah, hearing it isn't anything super special.

I was once so fking annoyed at this "kennel" my former gf got chihuahuas from, because the grower used an "anti-mouse" device and seeing how I could hear it whine, I'm pretty sure the 20 chihuahuas could as well.

[–] psycocan@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Miniled is better than both

[–] sCrUM_MASTER@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

I have an LCD screen I got 15 years ago that I still use as a secondary monitor for my PC. It's 1360x768 so the resolution is low but it's perfect for YouTube on the side or messaging programs

[–] heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 89 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Have I just been really lucky or something with OLEDs? Almost all the ones I have had for 5+ years on phones and such, and even my nearly two year old desktop one, have nearly zero burn in.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

I have a CX and a G1 with no burn-in so far. I think newer panels have much better anti-burn-in protection.

[–] johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I have an LG OLED from about 8 years ago, and I do some rather pronounced burn in. I was also rather careful about leaving anything fixed on the screen. I have some friends with a slightly newer panel and they too have burn in. So maybe lucky? Or maybe your generation of panel is less susceptible than mine.

That said, I’m about to renovate my house, and when I’m done I’ll consider buying another OLED panel. Worth it in my opinion.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 61 points 2 days ago

rtings.com has a long running test for burn in on OLED and uniformity on LCD:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/longevity-results-after-10-months

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/longevity-burn-in-test-updates-and-results

You have to push them quite hard to get any significant burn in.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’ve got a buddy who runs full brightness on every phone and complains when he gets screen burn-in. “If full brightness will cause burn-in, they shouldn’t let you set it that high.”

No, dude, they give you the option so you can use the phone outdoors in sunlight. But you shouldn’t run it that bright all the time, it’s bad for it and a waste of battery.

Every time I hand him my phone to show him something he cranks my brightness all the way up. I’m worried about his eyesight.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How is he burning them that bad? My current phone only has the faintest bit of burn in at the clock and battery/status symbols from the top bar, and it's so faint I have to actively open an all white image and really look at it to notice

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

He’s on the phone a lot with full brightness. Whatever app he uses most burns it’s UI in.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

I was lurking the monitors subreddit looking for OLED monitor reviews, without fail every single person complaining about burn-in was running their monitors at 400-500 nits brightness.

I calibrated my LCD to 120 nits, and it's been perfect. Of course I don't use it with direct sunlight falling on it because who would do that with a stationary monitor

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

high brightness is only a problem for static images. when i was on tiktok way to much, i had a burn in of the white plus at the bottom specifically and nothing else

[–] Rambomst@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I've had an LG OLED tv for about 5 years, no burn in yet.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same, 6 years on my end. No complaints

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[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

1000009598

This is almost 10 months of continuous use as a monitor spread over 5ish years.

My C1 which I've been using as a monitor has no burn in. Gray uniformity is not perfect and there are some minor issues with ghosting on grays but it's still a better monitor for my uaecase than anything else. I assume newer models are even better.

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have a TV with "Edge LED" since 2017. No HDR but nice picture and still going strong with too many hours of gaming.

Nevermind. It’s regular LCD.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

All that edge LED crap was such BS marketing. Even most renditions of the zoned backlighting are trash that makes obvious bright spots and glowing features in the wrong scenes.

Anyone selling a "LED TV" that was just LED backlighting should've been fined.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Yup. I got it in 2017 and the backlight of it isn’t bleeding anywhere, the quality itself is very good and it runs on Linux and white it was marketed as smart, it’s pretty dumb - which is good because it never asked me to accept any terms of services since I first turned it on.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

CRT owners after 50 years: "Respect my authoritah!"

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

CRT suffer from phosphor fade

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 2 days ago

more like that picture of randy with giant cancerous balls

[–] mephiska@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

2013 Plasma owner, no burn in here!

[–] Juvyn00b@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Same. I did have some retention early in the panel's life (Investigation Discovery logo) - but that's vanished and it's been fine.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Also laughing in last generation plasma.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

I loved the picture from our plasma, but the heat it generated was something else. It was like running a bar heater with better graphics. Literally needed to run the air conditioning to watch TV.

[–] Licksrocks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

2011 plasma and still going strong

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

2009 plasma here

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[–] TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

even my phone got burn in…

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Yep mine too after only a couple years. I knew it was going to be a problem when I bought the phone, but I do like the true black....

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Isn't oled better these days?

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

While improvements have been made to management to help they will still all suffer burn in. Use them with any static content and they will show signs of problems within months.

https://youtu.be/O2kPsKyF5bQ

[–] RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The burn in claims are grossly exaggerated. A simple pixel refresh that runs automatically when the screen sleeps counters the burn in. Most OLED screens you buy now have a pixel or panel refresh feature.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably all of them have it, I would be surprised if you could turn it off actually.

The "refresh" just makes the pic more uniform again, the refresh itself is a sort of controlled burn-in.
Not too long ago OLEDs would lose brightness due to it (especially red brightness iirc?).

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[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

My oled phone from 2021 started slowly developing vertical lines of bad pixels this year and has some burn in on the status bar area. It's still usable, but definitely kind of annoying and a lot worse than the status of the lcd on the older phone it replaced.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

2007 1080p LCD still kicking.

Also have one of the tiny CRTs with the VCR built in that is god knows, 80s or 90s.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

My LCDs are nearly two decades old. Insane value

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