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Dementoss My monitor, an AOC Q3277PQU (VA LCD) has been used for around 6 hours per day, for the last 9½ years, so around 21,000 hours, no burn-in and no apparent colour shift or loss of brightness. Although I do play games, the task bar is present the majority of the time it's in use. Reply
mrdoc22 Dementoss said: My monitor, an AOC Q3277PQU (VA LCD) has been used for around 6 hours per day, for the last 9½ years, so around 21,000 hours, no burn-in and no apparent colour shift or loss of brightness. Although I do play games, the task bar is present the majority of the time it's in use. LCD technology dosen't have that problem or it's very minimal. OLED screens have the same problems as the old plasmascreen back in olddays f.ex Burn-in and other artificets. So I don't now why nearly all wants a OLED screen with all thise problems. (yes I now there is HDR and better brigthness with OLED) Reply
UnforcedERROR mrdoc22 said: So I don't now why nearly all wants a OLED screen with all thise problems. (yes I now there is HDR and better brigthness with OLED OLEDs have superior contrast and black levels due to per-pixel dimming, far better motion clarity with 0 ghosting (a 240hz OLED's motion is as good, or better than, a 360hz LCD), and near 0 input lag. These are all great things for gaming and movies. OLEDs aren't brighter. They're notably less bright than micro-LEDs. They obviously also burn-in. They're an imperfect technology, which is great for the companies making them because they have inherent obsolescence. Reply
mrdoc22 UnforcedERROR said: OLEDs have superior contrast and black levels due to per-pixel dimming, far better motion clarity with 0 ghosting (a 240hz OLED's motion is as good, or better than, a 360hz LCD), and near 0 input lag. These are all great things for gaming and movies. OLEDs aren't brighter. They're notably less bright than micro-LEDs. They obviously also burn-in. They're an imperfect technology, which is great for companies because they have inherent obsolescence. "Input lag" depends on how the monitor is build, not which technology it using, The other is "refresh time" which is about the transitioning from dark to white and back on the pixel. Reply
UnforcedERROR mrdoc22 said: "Input lag" depends on how the monitor is build, not which technology it using, The other is "refresh time" which is about the transitioning from dark to white and back on the pixel. This is simply incorrect information. Almost universally OLED input lag is around 0.5 ms or lower (LCDs are typically around 5 ms and up). Refresh time, or grey-to-grey, doesn't impact OLED as each pixel is individually lit. All OLEDs exhibit a 0.01 ms GTG, which is an effectively 0 response time. Reply
mrdoc22 UnforcedERROR said: This is simply incorrect information. Almost universally OLED input lag is around 0.5 ms or lower (LCDs are typically around 5 ms and up). Refresh time, or grey-to-grey, doesn't impact OLED as each pixel is individually lit. All OLEDs exhibit a 0.01 ms GTG, which is an effectively 0 response time. https://www.rtings.com/monitor/learn/ips-vs-va Reply
UnforcedERROR mrdoc22 said: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/learn/ips-vs-va Ips and VA are LCD technologies… They are not OLED. https://www.rtings.com/monitor/learn/led-vs-oled Reply
mrdoc22 UnforcedERROR said: Ips and VA are LCD technologies… They are not OLED. https://www.rtings.com/monitor/learn/led-vs-oled Your are right, My mistake (I have tought that IPS was a semi OLED) Reply
Shiznizzle Dementoss said: My monitor, an AOC Q3277PQU (VA LCD) has been used for around 6 hours per day, for the last 9½ years, so around 21,000 hours, no burn-in and no apparent colour shift or loss of brightness. Although I do play games, the task bar is present the majority of the time it's in use. BenQ G2222HDL TFT TN LCD 14 hours on avg a day for 8 years straight. LED backlit. No burn in. 1080P %50 brightness the whole time 40.000 hours+ take away 6750 for the days it was not on for 14 hours I dont like hearing monitors have "burn in" when i am likely to move up to 1440p soon and need a new monitor. With my usage rates i could be looking at diminished brightness after as little as a year and a half if i used an OLED Reply
UnforcedERROR Shiznizzle said: BenQ G2222HDL TFT TN LCD 14 hours on avg a day for 8 years straight. LED backlit. No burn in. 1080P %50 brightness the whole time 40.000 hours+ take away 6750 for the days it was not on for 14 hours I dont like hearing monitors have "burn in" when i am likely to move up to 1440p soon and need a new monitor. With my usage rates i could be looking at diminished brightness after as little as a year and a half if i used an OLED You'd be a terrible candidate for an OLED because of your use. Their best use case is FPS games or media consumption, but if you are doing anything else for extensive periods you're better off with either a single monitor solution (ips or va), or two monitor divided between media and productivity. Companies are starting to put out more mini-leds, though the majority of the recent versions are 4K/1080 dual modes. At 1440p, for newer models, you're almost limited to something like the Innocn GA27T1M (IPS) or the MSI MAG 274QPF X30MV (VA). There are tradeoffs, VAs have VRR flicker, IPS don't get as good contrast, and the input latency with local dimming is high. Still, they won't burn in over time, or lose brightness, and can be used for productivity. I just wish 1440p options were more prevalent. Reply
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