New TV (OLED)

[kasdashd]

Hi,

 

Been thinking of buying a new TV. Really think that the LG OLED C9 looks amazing/is the best, and Linus also recommended it in his video, where he chose it as his own living room TV. A lot of people however are talking about burn-in on OLED TV’s, but a lot people also don’t mention it at all. Anyone who’s got experience with burn-in on OLED TV’s, perhaps maybe the C9 or other LG OLED’s, and do you think it is something to worry about? 

[jj9987]

C9s are too new to say anything about burn-in yet. But Rtings is running a test with C7s - https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test

 

As long as you don't watch too much of same content, you shouldn't have issues. C9 has some built-in features to avoid burn-in, such as pixel shift and pixel refresh.

 

Source: I own a C9.

[kasdashd]

13 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

C9s are too new to say anything about burn-in yet. But Rtings is running a test with C7s - https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test

 

As long as you don't watch too much of same content, you shouldn't have issues. C9 has some built-in features to avoid burn-in, such as pixel shift and pixel refresh.

 

Source: I own a C9.

Thanks for the reply. What about when watching normal TV, the logo of the channel (DR1 in my case, Denmark, like CNN or BBC), that’s a static logo afterall, but only watch it 2 hours a day (max), would that be an issue, or do you need to watch that 6+ hours a day on something?

[jj9987]

6 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

Thanks for the reply. What about when watching normal TV, the logo of the channel (DR1 in my case, Denmark, like CNN or BBC), that’s a static logo afterall, but only watch it 2 hours a day (max), would that be an issue, or do you need to watch that 6+ hours a day on something?

If that's all you will be watching, you will notice burn-in sooner than later. If there is other kinds of content (movies, games), it's less likely.

If you want to just watch the normal TV, I'm not sure if OLED is worth the expense to you. In most countries, the content is not very high quality, so you won't get it's full feeling.

[kasdashd]

5 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

If that's all you will be watching, you will notice burn-in sooner than later. If there is other kinds of content (movies, games), it's less likely.

If you want to just watch the normal TV, I'm not sure if OLED is worth the expense to you. In most countries, the content is not very high quality, so you won't get it's full feeling.

Ok, thanks. No, i will be watching mostly movies, just wanted know if watching normal TV a couple of hours a day at max would be a problem. Thanks for the response.

[jj9987]

18 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

Ok, thanks. No, i will be watching mostly movies, just wanted know if watching normal TV a couple of hours a day at max would be a problem. Thanks for the response.

Nah, that's fine. As long as there is varied content, there won't be issues with static images.

[jones177]

I use a B9. It was in the first LTT video about VRR and LG OLED. 

 

I use it now as my main monitor. 

 

As a monitor there are no issues. Using Windows to switch off the screen when idle along the the many built in inti retention features is enough.

Even as I type this in the screen will dim slightly if I pause for a while.

 

As a TV I don't know. I only watch online content through the remote menu, mainly Netflix and Prime just like when I was using a monitor.  

Also like a monitor it is for my use only so I have total control how it is used.

 

For me it is a big success and I plan to replace all the TVs and non ultra wide monitors in the house with them as soon as they are on sale again.

[SolarNova]

21 hours ago, kasdashd said:

Hi,

 

Been thinking of buying a new TV. Really think that the LG OLED C9 looks amazing/is the best, and Linus also recommended it in his video, where he chose it as his own living room TV. A lot of people however are talking about burn-in on OLED TV’s, but a lot people also don’t mention it at all. Anyone who’s got experience with burn-in on OLED TV’s, perhaps maybe the C9 or other LG OLED’s, and do you think it is something to worry about? 

For the most part  the so called 'burn-in' is an issue thats been highly exaggerated.

 

Check out rtings.com, they done a test, as did the youtube channel HDTVtest. The later video had Fortnite running for 24hours straight, at the end mild temporary image retention was present (very very mild), after 1hour on standby it was gone.

The former done an ongoing torture test under 6 different use cases, even the worst use case took around 1000 hours before permanent burn in occurred. For gaming it took longer. For varied use , its unlikely ull see burn in within a 'normal' TVs lifespan.

 

For what its worth, ill be replacing my Plasma that i currently use as my only PC display, with the new upcoming 48" OLED from LG.