Would interlaced video help with oled burn in?

[SuperCookie78]

the burn in of an oled is dependent on the amount of time it stays the same (other than off) so would interlaced video help reduce burn in? it would mean for the same video but one interlaced and one in not the interlaced video the screen would be off half the time. would this work?

[RejZoR]

5 minutes ago, SuperCookie78 said:

the burn in of an oled is dependent on the amount of time it stays the same (other than off) so would interlaced video help reduce burn in? it would mean for the same video but one interlaced and one in not the interlaced video the screen would be off half the time. would this work?

Why would you buy a super expensive state of the art display and then watch interlaced video on it? It's like buying 4K 144Hz gaming monitor and then play games at 720p on it because you have GeForce GTX 1050...

 

Theoretically sure, but it just makes no sense.

[Alex Atkin UK]

My LG OLED already has a eye saver mode that adds a blank frame between each real frame and I leave it off as its hugely flickery and distracting.

 

Interlacing would be absolutely the worst way to do this.

[PlayStation 2]

Uh... do you know how interlacing works, by any chance?

[Alex Atkin UK]

Its just silly, if you want to reduce burn in that badly, just halve the brightness setting.  This will do nothing to help when watching HDR though as OLED is already well below the optimal brightness for this, although personally I find the deep blacks more than make up for it.

[Kisai]

1 hour ago, SuperCookie78 said:

the burn in of an oled is dependent on the amount of time it stays the same (other than off) so would interlaced video help reduce burn in? it would mean for the same video but one interlaced and one in not the interlaced video the screen would be off half the time. would this work?

Absolutely not, because that misunderstands the problem. Interlaced video was only designed to save broadcast bandwidth/signal bandwidth. It was not designed to prevent screenburn, which it didn't do at all.

 

OLED's problem is that the OLED's burn at inconsistent rates, so it makes them entirely unsuitable for static images like signage, software, and video games. They're only good for playback of video, and only of the video has no watermark. So that limits it to films and VOD (eg Netflix.) You can not leave an OLED screen on a 24 hour news channel because the news tickers background colors never change.

 

The more or less correct way to deal with an OLED screen is to have an "off by default" state, such as 100% dark modes in software (not the 75% which many use) light grey-text on black backgrounds for everything, and bump the UI's around by a pixel every minute so that lit pixels aren't always on and get a more even wear. Unfortunately the only real way to ensure even wear is to invert the pixel's on/off state every second frame, and that would cause a level of flickering that would be unbearable and bring us right back to the old 60hz flicker of CRT's.