OLED Experiences - 2 years in

[J7SC_Orion]

 

 

 

 

Edited March 2 by J7SC_Orion

[J7SC_Orion]

...a few months old, but oh so very nice on an OLED

 

 

[Snakecharmed]

On 03/04/2023 at 11:38, Snakecharmed said:

Early tests with QD-OLED have not been promising on the burn-in front. If this matters to you, stick with LG.

 

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I'm waiting it out for microLED. It'll probably be another 5-10 years, but what I do with my monitors would amount to abuse for OLED because I have them in work mode for most of the day. It's worse than letting a CNN news ticker scroll persist all day.

 

I've been wanting a 65" LG C-series OLED for my family room for years now, but I've put it off indefinitely knowing that I almost never just "watch TV" anymore.

Seeing Grandpasnorz's response and comments about OLED in Cerebus's TV thread reminded me to revisit this thread and my original comments. For all the reservations I have about OLED as a daily driver monitor, I finally figured out how I plan to make an LG OLED TV work for my family room, which will be primarily driven by my Ryzen 7 4800H/RTX 2060 laptop and consequently be showing my Windows desktop for not insignificant amounts of time:

 

Wallpaper Engine, because I hate the idea of having a boring black background and hiding all desktop UI elements for the sake of preserving the OLED pixels. To me, the point of having an OLED is to show it off whenever it's turned on even when you're not really using it.

 

Or I could just not care, but I've not cared to the tune of having the same 52" Samsung in my family room since 2008. I don't go through monitors and TVs that often. I can barely resell my old monitors, but I can still manage to haul them off in my car to FedEx Office for shipping. Big old TVs are practically e-waste to me. Knowing me, I'm going to end up keeping a new TV for a decade and I don't want burn-in to be present for the latter half of its occupancy in my home.

 

Maybe I'll have a 65" LG C/G 6 or 7 by the time I get around to refreshing the family room space and start making an effort to use it more frequently again. When that time comes, I can't continue to use a 52" 1080p TV anymore.

 

I imagine by then, either LG's MLA panels will have reached the C-series or the M-series will actually distinguish itself from the G-series beyond its wireless capabilities to move the G-series more mainstream.

Edited Thursday at 03:59 by Snakecharmed

[Sir Beregond]

11 hours ago, Snakecharmed said:

Seeing Grandpasnorz's response and comments about OLED in Cerebus's TV thread reminded me to revisit this thread and my original comments. For all the reservations I have about OLED as a daily driver monitor, I finally figured out how I plan to make an LG OLED TV work for my family room, which will be primarily driven by my Ryzen 7 4800H/RTX 2060 laptop and consequently be showing my Windows desktop for not insignificant amounts of time:

 

Wallpaper Engine, because I hate the idea of having a boring black background and hiding all desktop UI elements for the sake of preserving the OLED pixels. To me, the point of having an OLED is to show it off whenever it's turned on even when you're not really using it.

 

Or I could just not care, but I've not cared to the tune of having the same 52" Samsung in my family room since 2008. I don't go through monitors and TVs that often. I can barely resell my old monitors, but I can still manage to haul them off in my car to FedEx Office for shipping. Big old TVs are practically e-waste to me. Knowing me, I'm going to end up keeping a new TV for a decade and I don't want burn-in to be present for the latter half of its occupancy in my home.

 

Maybe I'll have a 65" LG C/G 6 or 7 by the time I get around to refreshing the family room space and start making an effort to use it more frequently again. When that time comes, I can't continue to use a 52" 1080p TV anymore.

 

I imagine by then, either LG's MLA panels will have reached the C-series or the M-series will actually distinguish itself from the G-series beyond its wireless capabilities to move the G-series more mainstream.

Shrug. I don't hide my taskbar or anything. August will be 2 years for me on the C1. No burn in yet that I can see.

 

EDIT: 2828 power on hours so far. And yeah I really do hope they bring MLA panels to the C series at some point.

Edited Thursday at 15:31 by Sir Beregond

[J7SC_Orion]

In June this year, my LG C1 48 OLED will be three years old. Its primary task is on my gamer w/4090, and that is not always on - but still, I do use it regularly for hours at a time. No burn-in so far, noting that the more recent LG OLED's have software that helps to guard against burn-in you can turn on and off (I have that software enabled). I should add that I also use the LG C1 as a second television in addition to its gamer monitor functions.

 

...have been eyeing a G3 55 with MLA at the same place where I got my C1 48 and other monitor / tv equipment such as an older LG 55 IPS HDR. The G3 55 picture seems even more gorgeous (brighter) in the store than the C3, though my C1 actually has the brightness turned down anyway given its positioning in my home office.  The G3 will undoubtedly get cheaper, and the MLA feature (for additional brightness) is likely to make it into future 'C' models.