Is OLED burn in something I should worry about for my use case?

[IkusaTakuma]

I've finally got my life together and got high enough income to build my dream setup and am debating if OLED is a good choice for my next monitor.

I grew up with CRTs and many of my burn-in-prevention habits back when I used CRTs still remain; I turn off my screens whenever they aren't in use, I also don't crank the brightness of my screen more than necessary (currently use an Asus PG259QN and it's set at 20% brightness, I find this plenty bright when viewed in my dimly lit gaming room). I also hide taskbar, don't use desktop shortcuts, and run a black background.

I also play highly varied content, I play a different two randomly-chosen games from my library every week, and I also watch lots of different kinds of TV from anime to movies to old 90s sitcoms. When it comes to web browsing I also prefer to make full use of my screen space by using F11 to full-screen and using ctrl+tab to switch tabs rather than using chrome in windowed mode which results in the chrome tabs taking up screen space.

I'm still a bit worried about burn in cause some of my friends are telling me it's worse than CRT and plasma burn in and that no amount of burn-in prevention measures will save my screen from getting permanent static image burn in.

[_I_]

imho stick to a nice lcd panel, they have no burn issues at all
thin edge lit are much better than they used to be, or backlit is fine too, just turn backlight to 50-75% for much longer life on any lcd display
the mfgs try to get the most brightness they can out of them and overdrive the leds without enough cooling

even the newer better oled panels burn
look at someones phone about a year old and see how much burn that has
thats what the oled panel will look like after a year of use
seen too many with burn in taskbar/clock and other stuff

image shift kinda helps blur burned edges, but does not prevent it at all
oled monitors may have a few other settings to help reduce, but it will burn eventually

if you dont mind buying a new display after a year or two, they do look good for a while
but a good display should last 10+ years through several pc upgrades

[Tiberius]

The rule is simple: if burn-in is not a problem, they would put a warranty against it

[Smokey]

Depends if your lazy and dont keep up with the screen care.
Play for a few hr's and use the settings on the monitor.
Ive had my oled for awhile and dont have any burn in.
Corsair has a 3 year warranty on the flex but its not 4k, was looking at it but ill hold off until they make a 45'' 4k

[Pocahawtness]

My monitor is a qd-oled. There is little chance you will get burn-in on one of these.

I think there are some things you can do to help, such as using TransluscentTB, hiding the taskbar, keeping icons off the desktop, keep the brightness levels reasonable, auto-cycle wallpaper every ten mins and so on, but the monitor I bought has a three year warranty against burn-in, so I really don't think it will be an issue.

There are downsides to any oled, they are not ideal for normal PC work because of the sub-pixel layout, but for games they are superb. Once you play a game in real HDR then you aren't going to want to go back to a normal screen!

[skOsH♥]

_I_ původně napsal:

imho stick to a nice lcd panel, they have no burn issues at all
thin edge lit are much better than they used to be, or backlit is fine too, just turn backlight to 50-75% for much longer life on any lcd display
the mfgs try to get the most brightness they can out of them and overdrive the leds without enough cooling

even the newer better oled panels burn
look at someones phone about a year old and see how much burn that has
thats what the oled panel will look like after a year of use
seen too many with burn in taskbar/clock and other stuff

image shift kinda helps blur burned edges, but does not prevent it at all
oled monitors may have a few other settings to help reduce, but it will burn eventually

if you dont mind buying a new display after a year or two, they do look good for a while
but a good display should last 10+ years through several pc upgrades

You can look at my phone, used obsessively. At least a year old. Has no burn in.

OLED screen

Get a screen that has burn-in insurance for a few years. Problem solved. If you don't use the monitor much, it won't have burn in. If it does, you can get a new one before the insurance expires.

[Guydodge]

yes 1 to 2 years at best then its throw away monitor.nobody is going to want a monitor
with any amount of burn in.search online linus tech tips has a vid on his oled with burn in.
in fact 2 of them there have burn in.

[plat]

You can search this--there's lots. Experienced burn-in one time and vowed: never again, so I simply won't get this type of product any more. Even though you can take precautions, it only takes one incident--blah blah blah.

https://www.tomsguide.com/features/oled-burn-in-what-causes-it-and-how-you-can-fix-it

[IkusaTakuma]

While on the notion of deciding what panel tech I should go for on my "endgame" monitor, are MiniLEDs good yet?

My intention is to have two monitors for my endgame setup; one that's a sweaty tryhard monitor for competitive games (currently my Asus PG259QN), and one that's more of an all-around monitor that can wow me with its vibrant colors, immersive contrast, high pixel density, and at least acceptable motion handling.

I decided for my more visually-focused screen that a higher contrast ratio is what gave TVs that "immersive" look for me, so I want a high-contrast monitor, preferably not VA since black smearing in my experience is so horrid even singleplayer games suffer when played on my TV, but it's been 6 years since I bought that TV so it could be that VA panels are significantly better these days and/or I went too cheap as I bought that back before I had the income I have now.

Can miniLED local dimming be used in SDR? The reason I was looking at OLED was because you don't need the game/content to be HDR to appreciate the better contrast, so if MiniLED backlights only work in HDR the benefit is only going to be noticed in newer games/content.