deciding on a OLED.

[redbeard916]

Opinions on OLED . Who has one ,do you like it? Screen burn? Does it turn off every 4 hours to cool down ? definitely on edge getting one.  

[xg32]

no burn in after 2.5 years. I'd get a qd-oled over woled for color volume. 

 

with current prices i'd probably just grab the 321upx

[redbeard916]

what about dead pixel? what about the screen having to turn off every few hours to pixel cool down 

[xg32]

41 minutes ago, redbeard916 said:

what about dead pixel? what about the screen having to turn off every few hours to pixel cool down 

it's every 16hours for modern panels iirc, dead pixel is a manufacturing defect that isn't an issue, if u see one, just return it to amazon.

[redbeard916]

cant return after 30 days lol

[Zenny232323]

6 minutes ago, redbeard916 said:

cant return after 30 days lol

Yes, but honestly a dead pixel would probably appear within that window. Rather unlikely for a defect to appear after a month of usage.
Just use your monitor as much as you can, if everything's okay, then it's likely it'll stay that way. And if there's a really huge defect, you can probably get an exception, who knows, maybe the comapny would be happy to.

[xg32]

11 minutes ago, redbeard916 said:

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out of all the monitor's i've used, i've gotten 1 stuck pixel after usage.

 

the rest are dead pixels on arrival from shipping/manufacturing.

[Psittac]

I have two woled's and love them.  I had some issues with a terrible LG monitor being refurbished but got my money back for it and got to keep it, works the majority of the time.  Don't let that bother you though, LG is a good company they just produced a stinker this one time.  My Sony TV which I use for a monitor is excellent.  I had a problem where my HDMI went out on my gpu and now I'm using a DP to HDMI adapter which is a terrible solution but I'll be getting a next gen gpu when they launch.

 

All of that anecdotal experience aside I'm very happy with my Sony, wish it was a monitor and not a TV for quality of life reasons but I have no issues with it.  I can run it all day on the weekends with no shutting down, wasn't even aware that was a thing.

 

No burn in no dead or stuck pixels.

 

If you find a qd-oled with everything you want go for that, but woled is still excellent.

[porina]

I have two OLED displays which I guess says something about my viewpoint.

 

My first is an LG B9 TV, which is about 5 years old now. At normal viewing distances I can't see any problems. Last time I checked for burn in, I couldn't see anything. What I did see were dead pixels. I think they're growing along the edges, and in a search that seems to be a thing with that era LG OLED. I don't know if that is something that still affects newer ones.

 

My second is a Dell/Alienware monitor. That was only bought earlier this year. Since I've bought it, it has been on for most of my waking hours for most days, so quite heavy usage. No problems so far.

 

Both do pixel refreshes after so many on hours. It isn't Windows Update, so it doesn't force it on you when you're using it. It'll do it when the display is soft off. On the monitor this can be a minor annoyance in that if I go away for a short time, it might be in the refresh cycle when I get back. You either let it finish, or if you interrupt it you have to dismiss a prompt on the display. I never timed it but it takes some minutes for a refresh cycle.

 

Both by default also have a slightly annoying pixel shift. That helps protect against burn in. It isn't noticeable in games but can be on desktop where everything moves slightly. I can turn it off on the TV, but not the monitor. The TV is old enough I'll accept the risk of burn in. They work differently too. On the TV, I think it is exactly 3840x2160 pixels, so to do the shift you lose edge pixels. Not noticeable for media or most games, but not good on desktop. The monitor overprovisions so that you always get the full pixel display. If I look for it, I can see the small border vary in size as it moves around over time.

[Doobeedoo]

If you want to up your monitor quality and manage to get one on sale, I'd get it for sure.

[CatTNT]

I got an LG C4 WOLED 48" TV. I spent 2 days getting the colors the way I want it and my only 2 complaints are that 1) Having a large amount of white on the screen (reading an article, opening light mode task manager, etc) will dim the brightness by a lot, and I don't like it. I am using game optimizer, which is already known to reduce brightness, so that might be fixable. My only other issue is that in some games, since I can now enable HDR in windows, ALT+TABing and otherwise leaving the game to go back to desktop will cause the screen to go black for 0.5-2 seconds. To me though, I am 99% sure that this is either the games issue or Windows's issue, and not the TV's issue. 

[Stahlmann]

OLED is great. The screen doesn't just turn off after a few hour of use. OLEDs have to run a pixel cleaning algorithm to get rid of temporary image retention but you won't notice any of it. It happens when they go into standby after using them for a few hours. Some models have a popup reminding you that it wants to run the algorithm but you can turn the notification off and let it do it's thing after you're done for the day.

 

I've been using an LG C9 55" for over 5 years as my living room TV and an LG C2 42" for just over 2 years as my main monitor. Both are doing great with no burn-in and no loss of brightness.

 

As long as you're using it mostly as a content consumption and gaming monitor, with the occational work task or web browsing, then you don't have to worry about burn-in.

 

It's only when you use it for the same work task, 8 hours every day, 5-6 days a week when you have to worry about burn-in.