> I haven't been able to justify buying OLED for those with how even the best can still exhibit burn-in.
My oldest OLED TV will turn 6 in August and has exhibited no burn-in.
I think it ultimately comes down to what you're watching. You're likely to experience burn-in if you watch something with a persistent banner like 24 hour news.
For example, my 2 year old LED VA Panel monitor already has burn-in where the task bar is displayed.
Yup. When the kids were younger, we always had Disney junior on. Mostly because I always like to have a bit of background noise (this kids didn't actually watch it that much) and it was kid friendly. The Disney junior logo burned into the screen.
The risk is lower but still present on my TV, which spends a large percentage, maybe even a majority of its powered-on time playing games with static HUDs. What I'm really worried about is computer usage… the Windows taskbar and macOS menubar specifically. Both can be set to auto-hide but I'd really rather not have to do that, particularly for the Mac global menubar.
And yeah, I've experienced image retention on non-OLED screens. the LG-made 2560x1440 IPS panels that used to get used in 27" iMacs would after a few years start exhibiting image retention, though it'd at least fade if the static elements that sat long enough to cause retention were hidden. I think this was caused by the heat generated by the computer part of the iMac though, because the Apple Thunderbolt Display that used the same panels never develop the issue even after a decade+ of usage. I also haven't seen it happen on any other IPS panels I've owned.
I haven’t experience any burn in issues with my OLED or even image retention which I sometimes see on my Plasma.
I think for normal TV usage it is a non issue. The only times I have heard it being a problem is when someone leaves their TV on for a week for their cat or something.
It's a whole area of the screen. Shifting by a few pixels doesn't do anything for a whole area. It'll help only with thin text, but that's the element that tends to mostly change on its own anyways.
If you want to rotate the task bar or dock or menu bar around all four edges of the display every day then maybe, but that'll be hell on your habits and muscle memory.
My oldest OLED TV will turn 6 in August and has exhibited no burn-in.
I think it ultimately comes down to what you're watching. You're likely to experience burn-in if you watch something with a persistent banner like 24 hour news.
For example, my 2 year old LED VA Panel monitor already has burn-in where the task bar is displayed.