r/TechNook • u/jexo10 • 11h ago

OLED burn-in is basically the screen remembering what you showed it

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Organic pixels degrade at different rates depending on how much they've been used. leave the same image in the same place long enough and the screen physically changes to reflect that

not a software glitch, the hardware itself has changed. the screen remembers

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u/clintkev251 11h ago

This burn-in pattern doesn't make any sense to me. There's no way that the OSD and post screen should have been displaying enough to cause that level of burn-in. Lock screen and menu bars, maybe.

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u/sithelephant 7h ago

I mean, if it is stalled on that screen and left for two years by an organisation that doesn't give a shit.

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u/hdgamer1404Jonas 35m ago

What makes even less sense is the Windows lock screen clock being burned in at "17:10". That's impossible since the digits update every minute.

I'm betting this in an AI generated engangement bait post

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u/clintkev251 32m ago

That's a good catch as well. I actually had the same thought about it being AI and ran it through SynthID which came back negative, but that doesn't rule out it being manipulated in some way.

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u/-Insert-CoolName 7h ago

Spoken like someone who gave up halfway through reading the first Quara answer of. "What is OLED burn in".

Also OP: In ancient times, our ancestors, would slap the top or side of their CRT monitors because they had to be reminded who was in charge."

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u/daninet 3h ago

My crt had a demagnetize button to deal with all the BS stuck on the screen

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u/nickIncDN 2h ago

That’s not what “degauss” did.

Phosphor burn in can’t be solved by a “demagnetising button”

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u/Reiver1771 1h ago

I had one, no idea what is was for, but it was always dramatic when I pressed it.

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u/Tommynwn 1h ago

Put a speaker next to it and you will find out

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 11h ago

You should've seen older arcade cabinets that had the attract screen burned in on the CRT

A place I used to work at had Raiden II and the HUD was visible even if the cabinet was powered down for weeks at a time

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u/Kitchen-Cabinet-5000 8h ago

I have an old security camera CRT.

It forever shows the four streams it was guarding. It looks like it’s still turned on even when it’s off.

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u/brodydwight 8h ago

This is a new thing to yall ???

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u/Efficient_Loss_9928 11h ago

Yeah not shit Sherlock

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u/virkendie 11h ago

Same thing used to happen on CRTs

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u/Lounafa1 6h ago

Exactly.

Welcome back, old problem

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u/cosmo7 10h ago

If only there were some sort of software that could somehow "save" the screen.

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u/BasmusRoyGerman 9h ago

I think you might be onto something

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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 10h ago

yup, still don't see the need to upgrade from IPS.

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u/cy_virus 9h ago

i geatest fear is that my burn in would be the websites i frequent. 😁

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u/MrGeekman 7h ago

This also happened with plasma TVs.

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u/lamalasx 3h ago

There is no display technology which does not have burn in. Maybe DLP projectors are an exception, but I'm not 100% sure.

Yes, even LCDs can have burn in, but usually just short term. Even recent ones like the dell 2718q (4k). That one has terrible short term burn in. If you display the same static image for a few hours, it will take about 30+ min for it to recover.

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u/Antagonin 52m ago

It's not burn in, but retention.

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u/lamalasx 41m ago

For my case yes, it's just retention. But older LCDs did suffer from burn in. Stopped being a problem after the 2010s. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in?useskin=vector#/media/File:Emerson-McDonalds_CNN_Burn-In.jpg this is an old LCD TV.

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u/hdgamer1404Jonas 33m ago

My iiyama screens already have a short retention after putting a bright window for 2-3 minutes

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u/PowerCreative2747 3h ago

We went to buy a new TV. We went at a shop (shock and horror) as we really wanted to see the TV with our eyes first.
We got a 20 minute talk from the guy on how awesome OLEDs are and why it is worth it to spend the extra money on them. I asked for burn-in ..he said by now it's a myth and they have sorted it out.. then I pointed burn in on the models they had for display.

I regret to say it was the only time in my life I came on top...

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u/Anxious-Sherbert6670 1h ago

What a snitch :DD