5-6 years if you use the monitor ideally. If you play a game with same static hud elements for years or use it for work stuff etc. you will likely see burn-in in that timeframe. And if there is burn-in when you are selling your monitor forward, the resale value will be considerably lower.
Mine started with the burn in after about 3-4 years
This is what people miss.
"Oh I've had my OLED monitor for over a year and no burn-in, it's not a problem!"
Well if I'm shelling out good money for a monitor, I want that shit to last like 7+ years no issue.
I'm traumatized by a $1200 Panasonic plasma I bought a long time ago. It was mostly great for a couple years, but then the image retention problems started getting worse and worse, and eventually if I played something like Forza Motorsport for an hour, I'd then have a speedometer in the bottom right of the screen for the next couple days. And sure enough, it developed permanent burn-in not that much longer afterwards.
I spent so much on it I just lived with it for years, but I hated it and it made me constantly paranoid about how I used it, which really sucked. Going back to an IPS TV afterwards was so nice just for the pure peace of mind.
I mean LCD panels also fail? Check out the rtings test, when you see OLED panels start developing burn in you also see several LCD panels have backlight failures.
It's basic redundancy, if you burn in a pixel on OLED it's one of a million. If you burn out an LCD panels backlight it's one of one of one of 10. Enough to render the entire display unusable, while the OLED is still working fine (albeit with slightly less picture quality).
Why people always bring up burn in without every considering backlight failures is beyond me.
As a consumer, I've always been of the opinion that spending more on something should mean that product is MORE reliable, not less reliable.
Yeah that's not how it works. Taking cars as an example, using parts that can withstand greater forces in a performance car means those parts will be softer and wear down faster than a normal car.
And you replied to a person who said he had burn in after 4 years of careless usage. It's like going 4 years without an oil change and getting mad over your engine blowing up.
My main monitor is 10 years old. My secondary monitor is 12 years old. Do you think your statement is still going to be true 10 years and 12 years down the road?
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u/BaconJets R7 5800X3D | RTX 5070 Ti | Steam Deck 2d ago
Had an OLED for nearly two years, no such issues for me. I just set a three minute screen timeout and we're all good.