Deliberately Burning In My QD-OLED Monitor - 3 Month Update

"It's pretty unlikely you'd be using the monitor for 16 hours straight" I feel attacked

youtube compression went nuts on this one.

This video nicely shows how you cannot trust almost anybody on YouTube at this point. Many big channels are like: "With a new generation of OLED burn-in is a thing of the past. Almost non-issue." And then this guy shows up and gives concrete proof that burn-in starts to appear after 3 months. And yes I understand his setting and test methodology but still. Thank you for your honesty Monitors Unboxed.

Im using the alienware AW3423DWF and mostly play two games. I have, however, done the dark mode the background cycling and taskbar hiding plus installed a program that hides icons in my desktop when 5 minutes of inactivity. I've noticed no burn in after 2 years of using it. I am very pleased. I didn't expect it for a 1rst gen QD Oled panel.

Damn, only three months and it’s already burning in? I was pessimistic but wasn’t expecting it to degrade so soon.

any measureable burn in after 3 months is insane. i have LCDs monitors i have used for over 5 years with no issues and with the kind of money you spend on OLEDs id hope for no less than that if i were to switch

While OLED is fantastic, having a display feel like a consumable item is just painful because of what LCDs have conditioned us to expect from displays. Until OLEDs can be used without the user actively countering burn-in for 4-5 years without serious degradation they aren't going to be fit for the typical consumer desktop monitor space...

Would've been interesting to run another monitor next to it but using all of the standard protection features and best practices to see how effective they are

I'm glad I never got any of the OLED monitors now after watching this. I'm on my pc easily for 14-16 hours a day since I work from home and the fact you're seeing burn in after only 3 months at around half my usage is crazy. I would've been cooked if I got any of the oled monitors.

I've been using the same IPS ultrawide for about 9 years now. It's still perfect. OLED feels like a throwaway panel tech for a heavy PC user. I wouldn't spend any decent money on an OLED panel because I'd be wanting to replace it every year with my OCD.

Love the series, finally someone making burn in time scales visible and in a real world application. I know now that I can get Oled as I do maybe 80% gaming and 20% watching YT

The whole burn in situation is so interesting. I remember getting 2-3 year old Galaxy S4’s in my repair shop that had so much burn in you could barely see the time. I’ve been using an LG C2 42” OLED tv as a monitor for my main monitor for work and gaming with a total of ~5100 hours of screen on time and I don’t see any burn in at all so far. I do use dark mode as much as possible and tend to move my windows around a lot because I’m fidgety, but my job and hobby’s both including coding so there tends to be a lot of static text on my screen for hours a day. Plus both macOS and pop_os have those un-hidable taskbars at the top so I’d think that they’d have some effect but so far nothing.

I'm following you with Asus pg32ucdm. 8 hours/day productivity work on mac, then 6-8 more in one game with persistent UI. Let's see who gets burn in first :)

I tend to run my monitors for 14-16hrs per day. I was quite hopeful about the new QD-OLEDs but the care they require is a bit off-putting...

I've been using a LG C1 48 inches for over 3 years, while doing a PhD, so it´s been used, for the vast majority of the time, for productivity. I believe my panel is over 8000 hours (I use it on average for 12-14 hours/day, but being an european model, it doesn't register how many hours it's been on; I'm using a ballpark figure, and the total of 4 pixel refreshers I counted, that these panels do every 2000 hours), and I still see no signs of burn-in. I do take some care (hidden taskbar, changing the wallpaper every minute, dark mode in all applications), but it would be interesting seeing if the more mature W-OLED technology, when compared to QD-OLED, is more or less prone to burn-in.

You know what other monitor technology can burn in? CRT. Probably even more so than OLED. And yet we all used them and most of us didn't have much problems with burn in. In fact one of the most useful burn in mitigators that Windows has is a relic of the CRT era: the screensaver.

2 months in with this monitor, 12-14 hours a day as a software developer and a light mode enjoyer, no signs of burn in yet. I have all the pixel care settings enabled, pixel refresh usually runs at the end of the day when I switch it into standby mode, but sometimes it will run during the day when I go for a run at lunch.

Honestly, slightest signs of burn in after 3 months of usage is really bad. My next monitor is going to be mini LED than...

I've been using my LG G1 for 14K+ hours now, just like this video, I can find the burn-in, but in real world scenario's it's not noticeable. I would like to add that I myself wasn't trying to cause burn-in however, I auto hid the taskbar, used the build-in safety features in their most aggressive modes, and usually ran the panel between 0 and 30% OLED Pixel Brightness.

Love these updates. I need assurance 🙏