Particularly in its early years, OLED’s standout concern has been its elevated danger of burn-in, or picture retention, over conventional backlit shows. Due partly to using natural compounds, OLED panels can extra simply degrade at completely different charges over time, which may doubtlessly result in variations in brightness and colours.
Fortunately, OLED burn-in is more and more much less frequent in trendy TVs for a number of causes, together with options like display screen savers, static picture detection, and different {hardware} strategies to scale back and rectify picture retention. Whereas burn-in stays a gentle concern, it is solely value contemplating for very high-volume customers like players who preserve a static picture on display screen for a number of hours (or days) at a time. Even then it normally is not everlasting. For many, OLED burn-in is not one thing to fret about.
For more information about TV know-how, from quantum dots to 4K, take a look at our guides on How to Choose the Right TV (additionally linked above), How to Setup Your New TV, and HDR, or go to the “Useful Definitions” part in our Best TVs guide for more information.
