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After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage (www.pcgamer.com)
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Burn-in is the one big worry with OLED monitors. But evidence that it shouldn't be a dealer breaker for gamers is approaching critical mass thanks to another long-term assessment released today.

YouTube channel Optimum has been using a 32-inch 4K LG WOLED monitor for around 3,000 hours over two years and has found only minor burn-in. This is a particularly handy metric given that one of the best known existing trackers of OLED burn-in by Monitors Unboxed has been based on a monitor with a Samsung QD-OLED panel. Now we have something similar for LG WOLED.

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You should watch the video. "Minor" is an overstatement. It's completely invisible in normal use, and only barely visible if you put on a blank blue or grey background and squint really hard.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I dunno I’ve noticed blooming and other effects normally described as invisible or hard to see

    Sometimes sure it’s either extremely rare or hardly noticeable but it’s still often a near constant enough annoyance

    And what happens after 2 more years?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Are you using the same monitor? Blooming is not an affect of burn-in. If you want to know, watch the video. If you don't, don't. I don't care.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    No not for this monitor that was just an example of something recent I’ve seen on other monitors where people say the effects were not noticeable but they were to me and especially if the panel was dark

    Ive noticed slight oled burn in on other peoples devices but I think it’s mostly them going blind to it because it’s part of their default setup so they’re extra unlikely to notice

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