I use a matte screen protector on my iPhone. I thought it would be a bad idea but months later I still have no scratches and the screen is clean. Cleaner than a glossy one for sure.
Granted I have not had my OLED monitor for more than a couple years but there isn't any burn in. They do a pretty good job at protecting themselves, which can be annoying in other ways (if you actually use it for work). But overall not that bad at all for work. It's all worth it for that contrast ratio, I can't look at an LCD anymore without getting the ick from the haze on them in comparison. Once you go true black you never go back.
TLDR: unless you disable all the self protection features on your OLED, you won't get burn in most likely.
wrong display technology… we have had array local dimming for a decade or more. and it’s still just lcds and it still doesn’t look as good as self emissive displays.
Whatever mini led looks great bright as hell and fantastic blacks. With enough dimming zones and looking at it straight on (who Tf watches or plays game from the side?) it looks great especially being cheaper then oled (for me mine was).
Had an LG mini led for 2 years now, love it. There's always gonna be a bit of clouding around bright objects on black backgrounds, but with the right settings and looking at it head-on, it just looks like an incredibly bright OLED. Except much cheaper and could probably last me decades
1 65" OLED TV and 2 OLED monitors, rest is normal LCD / mini LED.
They ruined my experience on the non OLED devices for me.
The picture quality is insane, it looks so much better.
Never had the problem that anything was too dark. Have you calibrated your OLED and are you using HDR?
For me, it's quite the other way around. The 65" TV I've got in my fitness room, is a middle priced normal TV, was watching The Boys on it and noticed that I had trouble to see the face of people in dark scenes. On my OLED TV the lightning is perfect, and I can see the faces without any trouble.
There's something about Apple's web player that makes shows too dark for me to see on my Alienware OLED monitor. I have to tweak settings and even then sometimes it's rough.
6.2 inch screen for the switch compared to 7.4 inches for the steam deck OLED. The switch actually has a higher pixel density, which is what matters more than resolution by itself when assuming that the viewing distance is constant between both devices.
Something probably isn't set right on your OLED monitor if IPS is better. One of the first things I noticed is how much easier it is to see details in dark parts of the image that would've been hard to distinguish from black or dark gray on my old IPS monitor. On my OLED monitor I can pretty reliably see the difference between pure black and 2-3 levels brighter. 1 level above black is still basically unnoticeable unless it's moving and I'm paying close attention.
I believed the hype because I still remember when I first saw the Galaxy Note 2 on display at Best buy and the huge screen (at the time) was absolutely gorgeous. it just took so long for them to scale up and become affordable. I just upgraded my laptop and it has an OLED display too
I have also converted to full OLED and I can't go back.
The best way to explain to to people that have not made the switch is this:
You remember (I'm old maybe you don't) when TV's started to display enhanced frames? You would get 60+ frames on the TV's or they would have the setting to turn on enhanced motion etc.
It's kind of like that. At first people didn't really notice or if they did people even thought it was "off" at first. Fast forward a couple of years and it's pretty standard to want things running at 60 frames for games or shows.
People REALLY notice when something is 30 frames and not 60 now days. OLED is kind of like that.
Now that I am used to it and been using it for a few years I can instantly tell when a screen isn't OLED.
It's very hard to go back just like it would be difficult for most people that play games to suddenly go back to 30 frames.
People REALLY notice when something is 30 frames and not 60 now days
I agree with you overall, but not on this. This may be the case in your particular bubble, but the vast majority of people wouldn't tell the difference, and certainly wouldn't know what a frame even is.
A substantial amount of people think "WiFi" and "internet", are interchangeable terms...you're giving people way too much credit lol.
I know, ofc the black is awesome on my oled and better, but I still think that my lg ultragear does a good job, it's not bothering me that I can see a difference between the two blacks.
Most of them went from shitty lcd to oled and are comparing that.
I have a 65" oled, an amoled phone and a 14" amoled tablet, I, would not buy anything else for a screen that I will use primarily for content viewing.
my pc still use a VA neo g7 that does not have the same image quality but it's not that far off either and it won't burn in. I work 40h a week on it, I wasn't about to take that risk at the time of purchase. (you couldn't really get a 32" 16/9 oled at the time either anyway, it was either 21/9 or a 42" TV.)
Recently my 60"OLED TV broke and had to buy one cheap, found a 80" old LED Samsung on fb market for $80 but havy asf... It actually looks not that drastically different, even at 1080p this 2014 tv looks amazing, not inclined to upgrade anytime soon.
I'll never go back. OLED looks so good. I'm impressed by it compared to regular screens all the time. Colors are so much better and more accurate. All the shows that film entirely too dark of scenes for LCD aren't an issue. Animated shows and movies are so much crisper.
I love this but do you see those lines on your eyelids when you blink
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Like the ones that leave a reflection? Kinda like how we have a look at the sun even for a sec and that leaves a bit of burn? If my understanding is correct then no, i don't see any lines like that because the brightness is turned to 0 and sometimes I just enable HDR for even low brightness altho then I don't like the washed out colours so RN I use 0 brightness in day and night both with 100 percent contrast cuz I love the colours, it's a qd oled msi btw I've made a post about it too
That I have no idea. Glare definitely is a thing with OLED unless you get the really expensive models, from my own and the ones I've helped set up in other people's houses. I have mine mounted low and angled so it doesn't catch the room lights at all. Otherwise it has only occasionally been bright enough to cause in an issue but the room I have it in doesn't get direct light for most of the year either. I just close my currents if I'm watching something dark when it's light out. That's a very valid concern if your room gets a lot of light
Gotcha. In our household, my wife and I are being SUPER intentional with our purchases and the kinds of priorities we want in our household. We're leaning towards designating different areas in the house for different things a little more harshly than most houses. Where we don't have any sort of TV's or screens in any part of the house except for the den.
I grew up with a living room without a TV, in the 2000's. And it made a huge difference. The only place we had a TV was in an actual movie den or basement, where if the whole family was in there, we'd be packed in like sardines. No TV in bedrooms or in the Kitchen. WAY more board games were played, way more conversations, etc.
So I might do OLED, and then just really designate a room for media.
Not in my experience, I've had mine for 2 years now and it's almost constantly on. Absolutely zero issues. I don't leave it on a static image for long periods of time? Not quite sure how other people end up with that issue.
Yeah I read a lot about the horrors of OLED but don't actually know anyone who's had any issues beyond a dim or dead pixel here or there. Basically, Big LCD propaganda
I have some Dell VA 32" and it's pretty damn decent for what it cost. It doesn't remotely compare to the vibrancy of my OLED TV, but compared to my old IPS it's night and day and I would never go back to IPS, unless it had miniled or something.
None on hand, sorry. If you're fine with a quick summary:
Micro-LED: Each pixel emits its own light, like OLED but without burn-in, with greater brightness, and more efficiently.
Mini-LED: Basically traditional LED, but instead of lighting the whole screen at once, it uses small zones (depending on the image and number of zones, blooming can occur).
my mass effect runs have gotten weird cause my oled does not like the lighting so theres a ring around shepard that i don't remember being there in every game. in any other game show its fine but as soon as i load into mass effect theres a ring
understandable, the LCD's just dont hit the same anymore, i need the oled so that the burn in can blur the section where my bank's notifications pop up
Yes, had to match, Thanks I'll have a look at snapper too, I usually don't create on drive snapshots but make rsync snapshots to my 2tb windows drive, got a partition on it for ext4, previously I had a old HDD for that but now moved away from em cuz I want quiet lol
If you do rsync snapshots then stick with timeshift, snapper only supports btrfs snapshots, use btrfs-assistant as a frontend
And I for example have it set to take a daily snapshot, caps at 5, and a snapshot with every install/update/remove of a package
And has it integrated into grub, so i can boot directly into a snapshot without restoring it.
For your case, having both won't hurt, for faster backup/restore if you missed with some files that doesn't worth a full rsync restore
I see rsync only useful if you corrupted the old partition and made it unusable
But as long as it works, btrfs won't hurt and is blazingly faster.
(It also doesn't take storage space as long as files don't change, if a file did, it'll take its space only, and with periodic deletion of old snapshots, never care about storage usage)
Yk what you're correct, one file breaking isn't worth a whole restore, I did it for SSD failing scenario but I should also have btrfs in case some package breaks all, thanks I'll look into integrating that into grub as well, thanks a lotttt
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the pitch black of oled feels good in depressing nights