QD-OLED Burn-In | Should You Worry?

Hey everyone! A very important notice: I am chatting with Rtings about several things right now. 1. RE:a comment Rtings made on this video, which appears to have been deleted over the weekend of May 13-14. I did not delete the comment, nor did anyone else at DT, as far as I’m aware. I’ll continue to look into it, but near as I can tell, the comment has not been held for review, nor did it violate YouTube’s community guidelines. I am bothered by this a great deal and hope to get to the bottom of it. There’s nothing I can do to bring back the replies to the comment and discussion under the comment itself, but I’ve invited Rtings to repost their comment as a reply to this pinned comment – it’s the best I can do to help the situation, at least in the short term. 2: I am in active talks with Rtings and we’ll be discussing topics such as wear/time/non-linearity, etc. I am reaching out again to product engineers at Samsung, Sony, and LG to get their input. Along those lines … 3: There will be a follow-up to this video which incorporates takeaways from chats with Rtings, LG, Samsung, and Sony. I will also address concerns and clarify my stance on a few perspectives, as several comments make it clear some points in my video were very obviously not understood. I’ll try to rectify that.

9 hours of use on a weekend is reasonable. 5 hours of actual viewing on the weekend + 4 hours while asleep on the couch is possible

I'm so very sorry if you spend over 2 hours a day watching CNN or Fox News (or MSNBC). That sounds like absolute agony.

For gamers in particular, an 8 to 12 hour session with a game on a day off and/or when a hotly anticipated new release comes out is not uncommon. That's likely where a lot of the 8+ hour usages comes from. The kicker being that gaming is one of the content consumption forms that is at highest risk of burn in anyway. I still don't foresee it being an issue, the internet is flooded with people that have been abusing the heck out of their LG C1 and LG C2 for 10,000 hours and have no burn in issues to report.

9 hours per day is perfectly normal. I turn my TV on at 10am and turn it off after midnight. Anyone that is retired, or have kids or a significant other at home all day, is going to run the TV all day

Make sure to check out part 1 of our OLED burn-in series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrfaqzMMt4

9 hours is super reasonable considering a lot of people leave their tvs on for their pets for example as they go to work, weekend watching and the occasional forgetting to turn off before heading to work

Hello Caleb, thanks for another great video. But I've gotta say that nine hours straight on occasion is not unreasonable. Lots of people do that on football Saturdays and Sundays, and I know of folks who keep the TV on all day -- sometimes on news stations -- for the noise.

All due respect, I do think you underestimate how much the average person uses their main TV. 42" LG C2 OLEDs also seem to be pretty popular to use as high-end computer monitors nowadays and the amount of hours clocked on those is going to be astronomical. On a related note, a relative was visiting recently and they watched shows from different networks on HULU. All of them had the network logo in the bottom corner throughout the entirety of the commercial-less episodes. Even outside of sports and the news, lots of programming has static logos. My typical use case for my 65" C2 OLED is moderate gaming sessions (2-4 hours at a clip, maybe 3 times per week, not always with the same UI) and movie watching. I feel like as long as I'm conscious about not abusing the panel by leaving static logos or UI elements on screen for hours and hours repeatedly, I should be fine. Still loving the C2 OLED. Thanks for all you do and for weighing in on such a sensitive issue among OLED owners.

If burn-in wasn't a problem, then LG wouldn't have to ship TVs with an option to help fix burn-in. If burn-in wasn't a problem, then LG would cover burn-in under warranty!

As long as the test is the same for all TVs, the results will show which TVs are more prone to burn in problems, even if the test doesn't totally match real world usage. In my view the tests will be valuable to show the relative risks of the technologies used.

9 hours is definitely reasonable. My job has 60” LED LCD screens displaying data 24 hours a day. Some of these screens has been running for 10 years or more straight. ZERO burnin issues and screen brightness is identical.

9hrs of continuous use is possible in my household. Some wet weekend and some days during the school holiday for example. My youngest could be watch his programmes from 6am, switching to gaming in the mid morning. My eldest could then take over the tv from anytime after lunch and my wife could watch a programme or 2 in the late afternoon. So it happens. We’ve had an LGC8 for about 5 years with no burn in issues but we did have a stuck pixel which meant a panels replacement after the fist year. We also vary the content. We now have a G2 so hoping for similar trouble free viewing.

I strongly disagree. I expect any tv to work without any problem for 10 hour of use everyday for 5 years without any issues for any content and if the technology is new i expect a 5 year no questions asked panel warranty. If the product isn't capable of this, it must be clearly stated.I am not paying to be a beta tester.. this was a challenging topic because you dont want to upset the tv manufactures ... the answer is simple these tvs cant handle 9 hour of continuous use. how people use them dosent matter , 9 hour of use is a very reasonable exception

I don’t own a QD OLED - so I’m not weighing in on that but I do want to weigh in on hours of use. I’m retired and my TV is on 7 days a week from 6:30am almost continuously until 9pm. I use my tv as background noise like many people have their radio or streaming music source on all day. So 9 hours of use seems reasonable to me for many people. I also note I have 4K Hisense QD ULed Tv that pops up a screen saver after a minute on pause and later “go to sleep” if I don’t go back to live programming and I don’t watch much live news weather or sports or game where there are one or more static elements. But I can see how people who do watch this type of programming and/or enjoy gaming could have their TV’s on for 9 hours a day much of it with static elements potentially causing burn in. A lot of young, middle aged and elderly folks live alone and their TV is on a lot - filling the void.

Hi Caleb! I really enjoy your videos. I know that this is a very sensitive topic for many people, and your measured criticism reflects this. I agree with all of your cautionary advice for Oled users. One thing that I've always found to be true about TV manufacturers...If you want to know the truth about a TV, just wait a year. The manufacturer will spill the beans about the old model when promoting how much better the new one is! The following quote is from Samsung regarding the increased durability of the new 2023 models: "Our 2023 model is built to last. It’s now twice as durable as our award-winning QD-OLED displays from last year. " Read into this what you will. But it says to me that Samsung knows that the 2022 QD-OLED TVs have durability issues directly relating to the burn-in problem reported by many. I guess the 2022 wasn't "Built to last" if they list it as an improvement on this year's TV!

Caleb, you have one of the most natural deliveries of narration of any presenter in tech. No repetition of tone, no overuse of inflection, a relaxed pace without wasting my time. I don't know if it's a gift, practice or you're GPT9 - but I consider you to be the Sir David Attenborough of tech.

I think 9 hours is reasonable. My wife will turn on the TV on a weekend and play it for the entire day. In that scenario, she'll often pause the television when friends call, or if she goes shopping. In this instance, LED or LCD is what I'll put in the room where she watches most often,

The point is that the QD-OLED got burn-ins with the acceleration where the LG's OLED did not. Period.

I owned Sony’s 2020 flagship OLED and had burn in issues after less than a year of light use and general babying. Of all things, the Disney+ UI caused it. I sold it and a bought a Samsung Neo QLED. I got tired of constantly worrying about pixel wear.