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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That was a cool video. But if it takes over 5000 hours of time on. I doubt that as a regular user you're going to see any significant or noticeable degradation but after several years. 5000 is just 208 days, but it has to be continuous and severe. More realistically, with off time and varied usage, the effect will never be as dramatic as with testing. So, it doesn't sound like something critical. CRTs were worse and people coped just fine. Just use your monitor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like it's time to break out the bouncing word screensaver again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With my old plasma tv if I ever started to notice burn in I would set it to a channel with no signal so it would do the static “snow”. It forces every pixel on the screen to go full spectrum by alternating between white and black. Leaving it like that for like 5-10 mins would greatly reduce noticeable burn in. TV is still going strong after 14 years of doing this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's a genius use for static

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Newer OLEDs are also far less susceptible to burn in than older generations, I think much of the concern is still stigma from earlier models.

With that said, I'm sure I am not alone in saying I have a rather old OLED that I've just used as a normal every day monitor and haven't experienced any issues in the 6+ years I've had it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a newer OLED and the pixel layout is trash for text.

It’s beautiful when gaming or watching video though. So it balances out imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah plasma had the same issue, by the time I even heard about it everyone said it was awful for burn in. But that wasn't true at all buy mid 2000s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you work 8 hours a day from home and then do a couple of hours of browsing, your 5000 hours will expire in two years. That's a bloody joke to buy a new monitor every two years! And don't get me started on that fucking pentile layout...