We’re now 9 months into this experiment, so it’s time for an update.
We have purposefully been using a 4K OLED monitor in ways that will cause permanent burn-in.
Now, at 9 months in, this is the state of play.
There’s actually a bit of good news here.
First, this vertical line is still only visible in mid to dark grey test patterns.
The impact across the various subpixels is also relatively unchanged compared to previous months.
When viewing darker colors, it’s difficult to see any burn-in with the red and blue subpixels.
After 9 months, we haven’t seen the red and blue subpixels becoming more affected.
These results are pretty similar to previous months.
This improvement could be due to the compensation cycle process actually working to reduce or mitigate burn-in over time.
Certainly, we were expecting to see more burn-in after 9 months than what we’re seeing here.
Other aspects of the image are not as great.
So at least for now, we think this level of burn-in is tolerable.
We wouldn’t say it’s degraded substantially or anything, but there’s a small decrease in uniformity.
How Are Things Shaping Up So Far?
Small changes all around, but nothing too drastic after an additional 800 hours.
Burn-in with OLEDs is directly related to hours of usage and is cumulative.
But if we’re honest, we were expecting to see more burn-in after 9 months.
These results are even more positive for people primarily using an OLED for gaming or content consumption.
Even for mixed use, it’s looking reasonable at this stage.
