Deliberately Burning In My QD-OLED Monitor - 6 Month Update

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00:00 - Welcome Back to Monitors Unboxed
01:48 - Yep, I'm Still Burning It In
03:33 - The Burn In Results So Far
08:05 - Is This a Bad Result?

Deliberately Burning In My QD-OLED Monitor - 6 Month Update

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[klipk]

youtube compression making it hard to see these images clearly

[yoitsmegabe]

End this series with trying to claim the warranty!

[rtyzxc]

"let's say you do 15 hours of web browsing per week"

me spending my entire life in front of my monitor: haha

[NeraThun]

Despite YT compression messing with your showcase, your input on the matter is really useful.

[randxalthor]

Thanks for sacrificing your monitor to inform us on the proper care and lifetime expectations for ours! Looking forward to the 1 year update.

[chrisfanning]

I cannot thank you enough for this. Reviewers who are constantly being sent the latest model of OLED haven't stopped gushing about how wonderful they are, but they're still expensive enough that most people will be wanting to get several years of return on their investment. If your 6 month burn-in is representative of a typical 2 years of gaming/casual use - it's not just a degraded experience for the original buyer after 2 years, it also seriously harms the resale value of that OLED which is a hidden cost on top of the already very high price of OLED gaming monitors.

[DominicH-l]

LG CX user here. Been using my OLED for over 4 years and loving it. Used it for pc, xbox, playstation gaming, excel workspaces, word documents and YouTube as well as looking for jobs. Haven't noticed much burn in if at all. That's after 8000 to 10000 hours. Been planning on buying a new monitor for a replacement but this tv served me really well.

The lack of good mini LED monitors, especially in Europe is very annoying

[TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

Not sure if youtube compression, but the 3 month samples looked by far the worst to me. 6 month sample actually looked somewhat improved and almost no burn in.

[marklamutt]

Your monitor is actually faring better than I thought it would under those conditions. That is encouraging. I'm going on a little more than a year using my LG 42" C2 for all modes - static work, gaming, video consumption, and I don't see any signs of visible burn in yet, but I do take OLED precautions - black wallpaper, hidden taskbar, desktop icons hidden after 20 seconds, etc, so I expect my LG will last several more years before becoming an issue.

[SailrGooN]

Thank you for this. As someone who only uses this monitor for gaming about 15-20 hours per week, I’m feeling pretty confident

[mort]

I was about to purchase an oled for mixed usage (gaming and productive work) and then I stumbled upon some of your OLED videos. You guys saved me a fortune, I am going with the GP27Q, thank you!

[RadiatorTwo]

You should upload the images to compare somewhere.
If anything I can only see compression artifacts.

[NLif]

if OLED burn-in is ever solved, I'm buying one.

[MrKacperV]

Dark taskbar is actually less burned in than the right side where you've had bright background. If "burn in" looks brighter than the rest of the screen that means that the rest is more burned than this part as it was showing brighter image for longer period of time

[kyriakos]

For the fps gamers prepare to have a reticle in your desktop wallpaper 😂

[JackX]

this has put me off buying one frankly, 6 months and 1000hrs really isn't that much, even for light use you'll be hitting that in 1-2 years easily

[artysanmobile]

I really appreciate this experiment and hope it will continue.

[MyrKnof]

"when viewing reds, *greens* and blues"
my monitor: thats yellow mate..

[Spooky]

I have been using the Samsung 49" Odyssey OLED for about 11 months now and i can confirm zero burn in. I am using the automatic hide task bar. and i move my windows around every so often.