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.
It’s another data point to quickly growing trove of evidence. You can’t speak for everyone, especially not TV repair shops. Anecdotally, I would know, I work with one. The longevity of TVs has been steadily declining for the past decade, and modern LCDs have a lot more points of (regular) failure than OLEDs, and their deterioration is a lot more distracting than the burn-in of early OLEDS.
I get inquiries for TV repair, though I don’t take them in because they take up too much space.
Just like monitor repair, the inquiries usually boil down to a cracked panel or a power on issue. Rest would be backlight, followed by miscellaneous “weird stuff” as the edge cases.
I can’t actually remember the last time I even saw a stuck or dead pixel, laptops with LCD panels make up the overwhelming majority of devices that I service.
Can’t say my experience aligns with your claims, and OLED displays have not been in widespread use long enough to be able to make a realistic comparison of longevity.
What deterioration for LCDs?
Backlights and blown PSUs mostly