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by bayindirh 15 days ago
The advantage is, it's cheaper, can provide better color accuracy, and won't burn in as bad as OLED since LEDs have much longer lifespan w.r.t. OLEDs.

I still can't accept to use OLEDs in TVs and computer screens. Both has much higher duty cycles w.r.t. phones and tablets, and I hate burn-in.
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crustaceansoup 15 days ago
RTings has done multi-year burn-in tests and OLED TVs have an exceptional lifespan before burn-in these days, I honestly don't know what motivates this particular concern any more. You'll probably have the caps fail before you notice anything, maybe even multiple rounds if you recap it.
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bayindirh 15 days ago
I have looked to the same burn-in tests actually, and they were just starting doing it. Some of the screens got burn-in pretty quickly.

Yes, screens have improved vastly since the first days, but my life expectancy of these devices is much longer than a ordinary consumer. I don't change a TV every 5 years.

Yes, my duty cycle is much lower than the ones gone through testing, but having one less failure point for my screens is always better. Also, I'm not a nitpicky person about contrast numbers and whatnot. If I enjoy the thing I'm occasionally watching, I'm more than fine.

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lnenad 15 days ago
Having had OLEDs for a while now and never experiencing burn in even in my monitor I believe this issue is either very overblown by the small amount of bad experiences and requires a large amount of misuse before it becomes a problem.
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bayindirh 15 days ago
I have seen burn-in personally in my couple of early OLED devices, and saw them pretty quickly, so when I was buying my only TV and seen that RTINGS tests, I decided on an LCD.

My OLED devices fared fine for a lot of years, but I'm not sold on OLED on large surfaces, and a good quality, dynamic backlit LCD is more than enough for my needs.

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lnenad 15 days ago
I don't know what "early" represents for you so cannot comment on that but my close to 10 year old 55 inch tv still doesn't have it.

Either way there's something about OLEDs that my eyes prefer, I cannot verbalize it. Maybe it's placebo :)

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bayindirh 15 days ago
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/longevity-burn-in-test-updat...

When you look at that, there are CNN artifacts in some of the TVs as early as 2 months and 4 months. That's early enough for me.

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