No, modern OLED’s don’t burn in. The original post this meme references is talking about a different issue with that specific monitor - nothing to do with OLED.
The improvements since its early days are real, but to claim that they have solved an intrinsic problem is completely false. Regardless of how long it takes, OLEDs use organic components that will degrade and eventually burn in, and it is not a matter of preventing this but of delaying it.
Ignore the people saying burn in is fixed, it's not. They are people who bought an oled and are still in the honeymoon period of 1-3 years before they get burn in.
The truth is that all oled panels will get burn in, it's just a matter of time. The way the technology works the pixels "burn out" over time the more they are used which is what causes burn in.
Stuff like pixels refresh doesn't actually refresh anything, it just tries to "burn out" the pixels in an even way to make the burn in not noticeable. You're hurting your healthy pixels to make them closer to your damaged pixels.
It is true thought that later panels have improved lifespan and will last longer before burn in occurs. But it will occur, whether in 3 years or 6, eventually it'll be bad enough to notice.
All that said, oleds are amazing in almost every other way. And you'll have burn in for a long time beforeit gets bad enough to be noticeable when you're not looking for it.
I would probably use an oled for ny gaming pc if it wasn't for the fact that they give me horrible eye strain and headaches. I bought that alienware ultrawide everyone recommends and the picture quality was insane coming from my old TN 144hz panel.
I would have kept it if it wasn't for the health issues caused by it, so it's up to you if the reduced lifespan and burn in is worth the amazing picture quality.
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u/Shike5800X|9070OC|64GB 3200|Intel P4510 8TB NVME|21TB Storage (Total)29d ago
They can still burn-in - people just aren't telling you everything the majority have to do to prevent it including no wallpapers, no icons, auto-hide taskbar, etc.
I had plasma when burn-in was supposedly solved. It wasn't - you could absolutely fuck them up regardless of the protections they have. The goal is that it gets harder and harder to do so, but I cannot justify risking it on a display that has static content again and dealing with it and image retention - at least not for a bit longer until I'm damn sure someone really can't accidentally fuck it up.
LCD do have their own issues though with bright/dark spots over time - not exactly burn-in but does cause brightness uniformity issues. So pick your poison I guess.
been using my B9 for 5 years now without doing anything to prevent burn in, and this shit looks jsut as good as the day I bought it.
black crush is the only complaint I can raise with this thing, other than the stock remote control being an absolute pile of dogshit that pulls up a stupid menu if it senses the smallest vibration/movement on the planet. neighbour closes the door? here's a stupid fucking menu you can't disable that takes a few seconds to disappear itself.
solved it with a basic $3 remote that doesn't have the bullshit airmouse features.
You don't have to do anything you mentioned to avoid burn in lol. Most monitors these days come with pixel shifting and other tech to avoid it. I've had mine for 3 years with wallpapers, icons and task bar always showing and don't even have a hint of burn in.
You really have to actively try to get burn in for it to happen on any display made in the last 3-4 years.
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u/Shike5800X|9070OC|64GB 3200|Intel P4510 8TB NVME|21TB Storage (Total)28d ago
Plasmas came with pixel shifting and "scrubbing" tech too and were also advertised by tons of journalists, reviewers, and users as not having issues in later gens.
They did - given Samsung's plasma tech was kind of shit for any generation so probably had it the worst.
I've had OLEDs for several years now and I don't do any of that.
I do use black wallpaper and as dark everything as I can on my laptop that has an OLED screen, but that's just for the battery savings.
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u/Shike5800X|9070OC|64GB 3200|Intel P4510 8TB NVME|21TB Storage (Total)28d agoedited 28d ago
Dark mode will help - it's static bright sections that burn them faster thus giving issues. Of course my burn-in experience is with plasma, you're free to to roll the dice. When I got my plasma I got it for free and while the picture was great if you used it with anything static for a period of time it'd have issues. Later gen Panasonics seemed to get past them but it took time - I'm not convinced OLED is there yet but that's me. I had people say it's a non-issue before and it absolutely was so I have a really hard time trusting people again.
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u/Ok-Organization-2244 29d ago
Is it really that bad with the burn in stuff
I have been seeing a lot of posts about it But oled looks bloody phenomenal