• RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      The burn in claims are grossly exaggerated. A simple pixel refresh that runs automatically when the screen sleeps counters the burn in. Most OLED screens you buy now have a pixel or panel refresh feature.

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        3 days ago

        Probably all of them have it, I would be surprised if you could turn it off actually.

        The “refresh” just makes the pic more uniform again, the refresh itself is a sort of controlled burn-in.
        Not too long ago OLEDs would lose brightness due to it (especially red brightness iirc?).

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        3 days ago

        As I stated it’s static content which will cause the most obvious issue, most TVs won’t show that. Refreshing the screen helps mitigate or hide most general damage now.

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          Even without pixel refresh, newer OLED panels generally don’t burn-in much, if at all. Still wouldn’t risk skipping the auto refresh, though honestly many of them run it without telling you now when the screen goes into standby. I wouldn’t even know my 2024 Alienware OLED ran it at all without accidentally interrupting it.