OLED Gaming Monitors - The Burn In Problem…

the biggest fear most people have when using an OLED monitor as their primary display is the ever dreaded burning effect for those that don't know burning is when the microscopic LEDs the makeup and organic light emitting display end up showing the same thing on screen for a long enough time say the windows taskbar or a game's HUD for example the LEDs wear down such that no matter what they're showing they have the silhouette of the burned in content it's one of the biggest drawbacks when it comes to an OLED panel and it's something that people are somewhat rightfully afraid of when it comes to using an OLED especially for your primary display but actually are you right to be afraid is Burnin a problem you're actually likely to experience with an OLED gaming monitor well as with everything in life it depends for some panels especially from my testing the lgw OLED panels like in the ARs f48 U even with relatively low powered on hour counts it had pretty significant burn it with any sort of full screen non-black color it was clear that the taskbar had burned into the panel in fact even some file icons from the desktop had burned in which considering it only had been on for just 280 hours when I got it that's uh that's not great the good news was that at least for that specific panel it hadn't run its wear leveling function basically that entire time meaning once it did run the function it pretty much looked as good as new I think this is a good time to talk about the various protections that monitor manufacturers have baked into these displays to keep the you know burning at bit the one that I've already mentioned the the sort of pixel refresher is a kind of little wear leveling function that essentially refreshes the panel but equally cuts down the Lipan of all of the pixels seeing as all of these monitors are still pretty new it's kind of hard to know exactly how long they'll last with you know regular conventional usage but seeing as the Phillips offers a three-year warranty on the EVN 8600 that I've been using daily and expect it to last at least that long and likely a fair bit more too there's normally two different types of that pixel refresher as well the one that runs generally daily and the one that runs after 1,500 or in my case 2,000 hours depending on the panel and type in the manufacturer's Choice the former is a very light pass just a a touchup to help ensure that burn in doesn't start Lo dig is heals it the latter often called a panel refresh rather than pixel refresh is a more invasive pass it takes a lot longer an hour or two rather than like 5 to 10 minutes and is the one that takes a decent chunk of lifespan out of the pixels although it is worth mentioning that since this only runs at least in my case after 83 days of panel usage time not just lifespan but actual panel on time even if you work from home and use the panel every day for 12 hours a day it's only going to do that panel refresh twice a year and for more conservative usage like 4 hours a day every day a year it won't do it for over a year it'll do less than once a year for that aorus f48 that I mentioned that's all of the user controllable features just the two refresh modes although the Eva that I use does actually have a couple more screen saver is basically a brightness dimmer that after something like five or so minutes of inactivity if if no pixel changes color uh for something like 5 minutes the panel dims itself it's still perfectly visible if you I don't know reading something on the the panel uh and you can also you know bring it back to your sort of set brightness level by just moving your mouse a bit but it helps extend the lifespan of the panel there's also the pixel orbiting mode basically it shifts the whole frame up down left and right by one or two pixels each way every few minutes or hours depending on the setting you pick there are also a few nonuser controllable settings like the Adaptive brightness limiters that you'll most prominently find on the wed panels these if done badly can be distracting by basically allowing for a peak brightness value for a really short period of time and then ramping that brightness back down a fairly a fairly considerable amount this was really obvious on the fo 48u where in a small window the white background of YouTube was remarkably bright but at full screen it was incredibly dim and you could open and close the window and you would notice that dimming happening before your very eyes my open source response time toe captured it really well you can see how it Peaks at one value and then slowly tapers back down to a lower level that's the abl doing its thing I think it's also worth noting that at least from my admittedly limited experience the QD OLED monitors that I've had in have been a little better on the burn in front the EV 8600 that I've been using as my primary display for a good couple months now has zero visible burning and I use it all day every day if I had to guess it's probably on between 10 and 12 hours a day and still there's no issues here picking a QD OLED generally also avoids the pixel layout issues that you can run into especially with the w OLED panels as QD Leeds generally use a pretty standard RGB pixel layout whereas Weds use wgb or R wgb things like that which can make text look blurry smeared and just generally difficult to read and not a very you know pleasing experience the only downside is that the QD panel or QD Olo panels generally only seem to come as either TVs or in Ultra wide resolutions like my AA so if you're looking for a regular 16x9 panel you'll generally only find Weds at least right now but back to the topic of burnning it's worth noting that you do kind of have to baby these things if you want them to last I have windows turn my displays off after 3 minutes partially for the OLED and partially as a bit of a hack for ADHD plus I keep the panel at relatively low brightness at 60% uh as I've set up my displays so that they aren't in direct sunlight and therefore can be a lot dimmer than you might otherwise need it does the pixel refresh every night and I've got the screen saver on Fast and pixel orbiting on normal because neither of them bother me that much and they should help extend the useful lifespan of this thing it is kind of a shame that something that's this relatively expensive is so fragile and needs to be babied to eek out the most life from it but that is the joy of getting in still relatively early early it is worth noting that there's a very good chance that your phone uses an OLED panel and say for a few edge cases like the iPhone 15 Pro or whichever one it was uh where you know burn in does creep in the vast majority of panels don't have any burn in at all and Lead plentiful lives with things like the battery failing long before the display does so can you use an OLED as your primary display definitely is it going to last quite as long as an LCD equivalent well probably not but I doubt that it would be a significant difference and during that time you'll get a phenomenal experience instant response times infinite contrast ratios and often vibrant colors to boot it's an amazing experience and I'm incredibly happy to have one as my main display if you are interested in picking one up I'll leave a link to the AIA that I use in the description and of course I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below what do you think about using an olad as your primary display is it uh still a bit too early for you and you're still worried about burning or are you sort of convinced and maybe you just can't afford one or is it something you actively want or have let me know in the comments down below if you are interested you can hit the Subscribe button to see more videos like this one more monit reviews laptops and things like this and a load of other gaming related hardware and of course hit the Bell notification icon there's also plenty of other videos on 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Length: 9min 48sec (588 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 04 2023