OLED Burn-In: Should You Be Worried? The Truth Revealed!

Given the hardware enthusiasts in us that roam much of these communities, we're far more likely to get the upgrade itch well before any burnin occurs through regular use. Great, informative video nonetheless!

So about 365 days of 12h a day coding will destroy all the OLED laptops or two years of 6h a day, kind of rough.

My £1,700 LG TV has burn in after playing a video game a lot over 3 years of the pandemic 😂

Nobody's asked themselves why is Josh always angry?

Ok its clear now that this is NOT JUST JOSH

OLED fanboys: burn-in is a myth you just gotta use it at lowest brightness amd baby your display like I do which is why I never faced burn-in

just use it like using a oled smartphone, i don't see any burn in on my 3 years old phone

The real problem of OLED's is their absolutely inevitable degradation.
After few years of use EVERY SINGE OLED screen will degrade and loose brightness, and become washed out. So you should investigate in that direction also.
That's why im not happy about pushing the OLED's as a standard.
But it makes sense for companies, because in light of diminished performance gains and more efficient (more durable), long life hardware, washed out screen after 5 to 10 years might be the only consumer motivation for buying a new laptop.
That's why I'll prefer good IPS any time of the day.

If Josh did not make a fuss about it, so is a non issue.

I have a portable OLED monitor I use for my Steam Deck and laptop when I want better blacks and colours. It’s a great upgrade in image quality but I’d stick with LCD for the laptop itself. If I get burn in it only cost me £150, I wouldn’t fancy having to replace a laptop display.

Great topic Josh. Please also do a similar torture test on SSD for laptops. Especially for something like an apple silicon macbook with 256Gb.

I've always made sure the devices I use get a couple hundred hours of video games or video use before they start doing more static images

I've never understood why people suggest screen savers instead of simply having the display turn off?
Or display black at least

developers and artists general use cases would be more useful

The video I was waiting for. Thanks

The TikTok UI has burned itself into my phones screen xD

I have a Galaxy Book 2 Pro with an OLED display. I bought it in March 2023 and i have no burn in at all. The key for me at least is just balancing brightness correctly and try to change what is being displayed in the screen every 30 minutes or 1 hour. I use word and Chrome a lot and i try refreshing and go to the desktop every 30 minutes. This has worked incredibly well.

That's not too bad. I think given this burn in is not really an issue for normal use.

tip6: use an ips/lcd panel.

LG from the start has made a screen with no burn in ever. But if they were to sell it then no more sales going forward as everyone would be happy having 1 tv.

So what a copy does is dumb down the quality of an item so that it can damage over time to get costumer's to continue to buy the next upgrade that is stripped down from its already completed quality.

Anyway its difficult to buy of an organic Oled all the while apple iphone pro 12 max is on oled with zero problems to this day.

Thz

i have stealth blade oled since 2020 it works like a charm

Best way to avoid burn in is to not buy an OLED laptop and stick with LCD.

All that oled glory will become nothing after you see your first burn in , i even was ashamed to take my old fhone ( s9+) to a party bc the screen burning it had in screen

Basically OLED burn-in is uncommon, but when it occurs you have to replace the screen.

LG B9 OLED TV owner here, had my tv for 4 years and it developed burn in after 3 of those years - Its my main family TV so it gets used for everything from gaming to movies and everything else. Many modern live TV channels love to use static logos in the corners like news channels and such - this is what is burnt in to my TV. News ticker bars at the bottom of the screen and news channels logos in every corner - be careful what you watch on your OLED and how long for. I personally won't buy another OLED TV or monitor for this reason. Imagine seeing your taskbar or office 365 doc permanently burnt into your monitor - just get a really really good IPS display

Micro-led, mini-led that’s the future, oled was a good middle point

So the burn-in is slow, but it is still there. Anything OLED will have lower resell value, so the cost of upgrading will be higher. More money for manufacturers, less money for me and more electronic waste. Thanks but no thanks.

So, is pixel refresh screensaver better than turning off the display?

🎉 use mini-led or ips display u don’t have to worried about burn in and still got a awesome screen! And also enjoy a non glossy experience! Why even think about getting a shitty burn in glossy oled? For me makes no sense buying 1800 dollar laptop with a burn in oled.

Would love to see the same test on m4 iPad at comparable nits

Oh it exists… 😢

Thanks😊
I am a college student can you say me what is a lifetime oled laptop with using the given tips that you have given plz say

I'm old enough to remember that virtually every new screen tech has its burn-in FUD moment.

ANNDDDDD if you get this very slight burn in you can very easy use the Pixel Refresher feature built-in and it will dim down all other pixels aswell to make the screen uniform again, no more burn-in 👍

The tinfoil hat conspiracy part of my brain thinks manufacturers are intentionally pushing OLED over IPS even going so far as removing wide-color gamut high-end IPS display options from some of their lines to further bake in planned obsolescence so consumers have to replace their laptops every few years due to burn-in, eventual OLED degradation, etc.

tip to prevent burn in for oleds. DONT BUY BAD TECH

Burn-in or not, if I get that laptop, I'd be grateful

Does Asus use hydrogen or deuterium in their OLEDs. If hydrogen, your screen is much more susceptible to burn in.

Great video keep it up

I really HATE OLED displays!!!
That's why I'm not gonna buy the Asus Zenbook 14
The fact that dell removed the QHD IPS display on the XPS 13 was the last straw; that and the lack of a physical functions row.
Now my only option is HP, since getting a Framework laptop to Mexico is complicated

ill stick to ips, thanks. I use excel all day

Shame. I just hope new zephyrus is miniled.

6. Buy a laptop with ips or mini led instead

Hello. Can you review Lenovo P14s Gen 5 OLED?

Instead of hiding taskbar, can not we use taskbar with dark theme?

Thats why i prefer ips displays......

So the short answer is YES

I have to say this video makes me really sad about the state of "tech journalism" .. "is OLED burn-in a real concern - we found out by deliberately burning it in by putting a screen in the worst case scenario for 100 days!"

... so you didn't find out if it's a real concern for real people actually using a laptop like a human being. Thanks, super helpful. If we needed this information we could've checked any of the other equally stupid "tests" others have already done. Maybe next you could try finding out if throwing a hammer at your screen is a real concern.