If you're worried about burn in on the OLED, try this.
If you're worried about burn in on the OLED, try this.
Post by: u/sweaterguycuddles
I don't have proof for this technique but when I am downloading a big game and the screen needs to be kept on, I just go to desktop mode, open up a picture of just black on full screen (turn off your lights to make sure all the pixels are off), and this seems to be a good enough solution to at least this specific situation.
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chrisdpratt: 750 hours straight of static HDR image at 1000 nit peak brightness or 1500 uninterrupted hours of static SDR image at 600 nits. You're good.
foundoutimanadult: This. People, please enjoy your purchase.
astro143: After using my phone for 2+ years with ~3 hours a day screen on and no noticable burn in, I kinda want OLED all the things now. Minus my main PC monitors, my desktop would absolutely burn in. But a TV for movies and big screen gaming? Absolutely.
leob0505: And even if after that time something happens… you can replace the screen.
Quajeraz: Unless you play the same game, every single day, for like 10 hours, it'll be fine.
Even then it'll be probably years before hud and things burn in
Joingojon2: That particular experiment means nothing tho for two reasons...
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He didn't check it before that. It could have been "burned in" at 300hrs, 500hrs or any other random number you wish to insert. That was his 1st check at 750hrs and it was ruined at that point.
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You do not need to leave an image on permanently to get image retention. OLED image retention works on accumulated time. So if you play the same game constantly even if you are turning it off between sessions the accumulated time can and will retain static elements like HUD. If you are playing a variety of games then you will be fine as you will most probably be aging all the pixels at an even rate. Accumulated time is a real thing and that is when the ordinary user will encounter burn in. The best example of this is the average phone that has the fingerprint scanner icon on the login screen. That icon is only displayed for most people for a short amount of time when waking your phone up and login in. But it's also the most common thing that gets burned in on a phone because of accumulated time.
chrisdpratt: I was referencing two different tests. However, regarding the first one, you obviously didn't pay attention. He was checking at regular intervals, but couldn't pinpoint exactly when the burn in occurred. That said, the burn in was extremely minor, so it's roughly around that time.
Your second point is completely incorrect. The panel itself has a cumulative amount of use, since OLED doesn't last forever as just a function of the technology itself. That's not burn in though. Burn in requires constant static display of the same image. It's not cumulative. If it was was, things like pixel shifting or pixel cleaning that OLED TVs do would be entirely pointless. Even that is only necessary because TVs generate far more heat than a small display like in the Deck.
Don't even know what you're on about with the phone thing.
_Ganon: There is so much misinformation with OLED panels, it's staggering. What I'm about to say isn't directed at you, but at anyone interested. OLED does not burn in; more accurately, it burns out.
Let's pretend we have a single OLED pixel. It produces three different colors that it can combine to make "any" color, those being red, green, and blue. These colors should be thought of as candles. Let's have it display the color red. The more you display the color red, the more that red candle burns down. The brighter you display the color red, the faster that candle burns down. Over time, that pixel will have displayed red cumulatively long enough where the red it can produce is noticably dimmer than the red it could originally produce.
Now let's go to a whole TV. Let's say you watch a lot of YouTube on your TV, and you've got that bright red YouTube logo displayed in the same spot in the top right corner while you browse for videos. It's not there when you watch videos, but it is when you're browsing. Eventually, over many many hours of usage, those pixels / candles used for the YouTube logo will have burned down enough where they become noticably dimmer when displaying the color red. It's not noticable when looking at the YouTube logo, that looks pretty normal. But let's say you watch a video of a volcano and it shows some hot bright-red magma full-screen. Finally, you notice in the top right corner, the magma is a darker (in reality, dimmer) red in the shape of a YouTube logo.
This is a real problem that is the eventual fate of all OLED panels. It is accumulated wear per-color per-pixel, and it is unavoidable. The best way to delay it is to limit your brightness to just what you need, especially when displaying static images (or content that does not change screen location).
As an OLED Deck (and TV) owner, I'm aware of the eventuality of this, but every device you own will eventually be replaced by better hardware. Enjoy your display in peace and recognize nothing you buy will last forever.
crymo27: up you need to go.
Dependent-Zebra-4357: Good description of the problem. It’s frustrating how few people seem to understand or believe this. I’ve been downvoted multiple times for trying to explain that OLED burn-in is cumulative.
user11711: Just wanted to mention, OLED burn in absolutely is cumulative.
“Long periods of static content will cause burn-in on OLED TVs. The red sub-pixel appears to degrade the fastest, followed by green and blue. The effect is cumulative, as even cycled logos do burn-in (but over a longer period).”
The burn in you describe is more so plasma and CRT. Pixel shifting/cleaning works by essentially spreading the effect amongst more pixels and reducing, although not eliminating, the perceptibility of burn in.
In one of the videos you source, he even mentions he reached out to Valve and they confirmed there is no pixel shifting implemented in the deck.
Joingojon2: Well if you paid attention to the video you are referencing. It actually showed a phones fingerprint icon burned in. Which is a commonly known issue with OLED phones because of the accumulation of pixel wear.
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