Is OLED Burn in Overblown?
Vincent Teoh, Dodgexander, and most expert reviewers say Burn In is overblown
Rtings.com gives burn in a 1.0 rating.
The worst rating possible.
Almost every time Rtings.com mentions OLED TVs they warn of OLED burn in without mentioning that OLED burn in is going to happen to less than .1% of OLED TVs.
Rtings.com performed a test where they show that if you play the same static image for 20hours a day for many months OLED TVs are unreliable. LG stated that this would happen on their web site before Rtings.com performed their test.
I guess their test proves what LG says on their website. If you try hard enough you can create burn in.
Vincent Teoh performed a normal use burn in test where he rotated 4 static images every four hours for 20 hours a day for 6 months. There was absolutely no sign of burn in. His analysis is that OLED burn in is overblown. This same test had been performed millions of times before Vincent Teohs test with the same result. There are millions of normal use OLED owners who take no special precautions to protect their TVs and have never experienced burn in. Many of their tests have lasted more than 6 months.
Consumer Reports who gathers actual data on problems with OLEDs doesn't mention burn in as anything to be concerned with.
Finally you have forums that support the OLED burn in theory. Their are many more people who haven't experienced burn in than have. When you go to these forums you only hear about the .1% that have experienced burn in. People that are angry and have a point to make visit these sites not the people, like Vincent Teoh, that know OLED burn in is way overblown.
Whats your view?
Do you think Rtings.com gives OLED Burn In 1.0 Rting to market their web site or do they really think OLED burn in is that bad? The overblown OLED burn in debate sure brings their web site a lot of recognition.
From: Adam Babcock [mailto:
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Subject: Re: Why do you rate the burn in risk as a 1.0 for OLED's? Every other reviewer says burn in shouldn't be a concern for the majority of consumers,
Thanks for your email!
It really depends on the content, but burn-in can be a very real thing. We have been running a
long term burn-in test with 6 identical OLED TVs, with the hopes of finding out what types of content are more likely to show burn-in. With mixed usage, we found that most people shouldn't have any issues. Depending on what you watch though, burn-in can be a significant concern, especially if you watch a lot of content with static elements. For example, our two TVs that display CNN showed signs of burn-in after around 1500 hours. We've also received many reports of burn-in from our readers.
This is why we give OLED TVs a score of 1.0. We don't currently have the means to evaluate the actual likelihood of burn-in with different TVs, so we don't know if 2018/2019 models are less-likely to burn-in, so we give all OLED TVs the same score to highlight that it is a real possibility.
Thanks,
Adam Babcock
RTINGS.com
Feel free to delete this thread it is way off the subject. Thanks OLEDExpert