My CRT would probably still turn on if I hadn't thrown it out for, you know, not being good anymore. People act like they're gonna use a monitor for 20 years and 18 hours a day with a static image.
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A couple of times a year I'm using an old Olivetti CRT - green monochrome with VGA input - on an old DOS machine (upgraded to IBM PC-DOS 5.0) I inherited from work more than 15 years ago.
It still shows a shadow image of the command interface for the online (pre-internet) database it was connected to 8 hours a day for ca. 10 years before I got it.
But it's still fine for checking incoming diskettes (3,5 inch hard-shell diskettes, as the windows save-icon - NOT floppy as the 5,25 inch floppy-disks on the machine that predated it) before backing up the data.
Samo on older CNC machines in our mechanical shop. Some very large horizontal lathes (we make and repair rolling mill gear on them) are relatively old but work really well. They still have Fanuc and Sinumerik control modules with CRT on them. And yes burn in is there , and very strong. Last time when CRT died , repair Maister just replaced it with generic 12" industrial LCD.
My Samsung plasma from 2013 still going strong with no burn in.
Dude! 65” Samsung plasma gang here! I paid only $200 for it nearly 6 years ago and I use it every night for 2-3 hours with my PS4 Pro. Zero burn in. Great vivid colors still! A thermistor blew in it like 2 years ago. A $3 fix. I just don’t have the heart to get rid of it if it still works… but I really want a 4k to play my PS4 and my new PS5…
Mine is also a 65’ thing is a tank
When I worked at target we had an oled that ran a 3 minuteish display loop all day from 8am to 10pm. After a couple years it burned some of the graphics from one of the commercials.
Definitely turned off some buyers when they saw it.
I'm surprised the store kept that unit out if once it became that bad. A TV running in a store is a extreme situation which is not a good example of what a TV will run like or even look like (crazy color/lighting settings) when used at home.
That was honestly the fault of the store and not really the tv/manufacturer.
I told the manager about it multiple times. The problem is that to replace it the new TV would have had to come out of the store stock, which would look negative on our reports. So they just let it sit there for literally years with the burn in.
It finally got replaced when an LG rep came in and saw it, he had to order one so the store wouldn’t take the hit.
It's pointless to worry about this. Ppl who buy a 1000€ OLED monitor or TV's in multiples of this cost today won't be using it for 10 years. Those who would, can't really afford them anyway. That's the reality.
Garbage comment why tf is this upvoted
Argumenting why it's garbage would help your case...
So many people telling you exactly why your comment is garbage and you ignore them all to pick on this comment? Then when they provide an argument you say nothing? Lmao bruh.
Okay. So? Water is wet, sun is warm, OLEDs have burnin. Guess what, burnin exists since dawn of CRT displays. And you're all whining about it like it's something all new problem to displays. All while ignoring all the benefits of the OLED's just to keep whining how burnin totally is a thing. Then don't fucking buy an OLED. Jesus. No one forces you to buy one and there are many rich people who prefer to buy a top end LCD display over any kind of even top end OLED. And there are poor people who find a use case for OLED and feel it's worth scraping together 4 digit figure to have one. THEY KNOW ABOUT FUCKING BURNIN. So, what's your fucking point again? Now I'm gonna go enjoy some games on my OLED display.
The screensaver’s time has returned
Using a screensaver is a bad idea. The display might not get burn-in, but it will contribute to the degradation of the OLED pixels (They wear down over time)
Best option is to have a completely black desktop background with no icons (or hidden with something like Fences) and a auto-hide taskbar. All you need to do is hit Winkey + D to toggle between the now blank desktop and whatever you had opened. Just move the mouse cursor off to the right side of the screen and you have a completely unlit screen. There are probably some third party apps floating around that can do this same sort of toggle-able blackscreen as well.
Best option is to have a completely black desktop background with no icons (or hidden with something like Fences) and a auto-hide taskbar.
"This display is cutting edge! But it's best to not use it during use."