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June 4th, 2020 02:00
OLED Prevention YouTube Videos. Legit or not?
Greetings,
I recently purchased the Dell XPS 15 7590 OLED 4K. The display looks sharp and super stunning! I was a bit skeptical at first, since I have heard of the risk of getting burn-in on OLED display. Even though burn-in is very rare these days, I still did a bit of research on how to prevent it. I have stumbled upon a few youtube videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR-__suycVQ It is a pattern developed for OLED displays to get them uniformity activated for every day usage. This pattern also helps in reduction of temporary image retention that occurs on today's OLED displays. I was wondering whether this is legit or not? Would playing such videos at least once daily help with the prevention of burn-in? Or would in fact make it worse? The reason why I'm asking this, is that I want to use this laptop for at least 7 years. I play the game CSGO daily, where static images often can appear.
I look forward to hearing from you.
jphughan
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June 4th, 2020 06:00
If your display spends a lot of time idle, i.e. showing the same content on the display without the display going to sleep, or if even a relatively large portion of your display is showing the same content even if the system isn't truly idle, then those videos might be helpful. But I personally wouldn't run them "proactively". They're designed to address temporary image retention, which you should be able to notice if it occurs -- and if it does, then those videos might help. But if you experience burn-in, then that's permanent. I was actually surprised that OLEDs started to be offered on PC displays purely since some displays show at least some of the same content all day -- like the Start button and system tray icons, for example -- and some people use their PCs for long stretches that means their display would be showing those for prolonged periods without being able to go to sleep. But maybe the OLED display in the XPS 15 has some techniques for dealing with this?