Oleds look great, but I'm severely allergic to the concept of burn in. Not interested in technology that has such a comparatively short life span, and don't want to think about auto hiding UI elements either.
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Modern ones have anti-burn in stuff so when it detects fixed elements it turns these down in intensity. For what it's worth mine is going on 4 years regularly playing a game with fixed UI and no issues so far touches wood.
I have an LG OLED from ~2016 or so. Burnt, especially green. I kept it pretty even for wear, until I uh..I was playing Mario 64 ROM hacks, went to sev for a Slurpee and forgot to turn the TV off. Luigi's hat burnt into the screen in his sleeping idle animation and that was that. Took less than half an hour at that point, the panel was already worn out by then for that to happen. Now it's the workout room TV. Yeah it was very pretty, especially useful for 4K CRT Royale retro shaders. Not worth the price unless you got ample cash to burn as I consider these panels disposable.
I went with LCD again after that. MicroLED 75" with local dimming. It's fine, good enough. You see the dimming zones while web browsing text heavy dark themed websites like this one, but it's not a deal breaker for me.
Personally I wouldn't buy another until local dimming zones are way way more numerous and smaller on cheaper models. 1000 nits is enough, uncomfortablly bright sometimes now with HDR on. 120hz VRR is great, don't need more. Don't care about 8K. Or I guess if OLED became impossible to burn, or take so long I wouldn't care. At least a decade, without having to mitigate the issue by hiding task bars or using lower brightness etc.
I don't want to worry about it.
quality: OLED wins by every conceivable metric
price: OLED is significantly more expensive but worth it (assuming you can afford it)
longevity: burn-in makes OLED worse but still (if you can afford it) reasonable.
oleds are much better at almost everything, but it all comes crashing down because of burn in.
having a screen with a guaranteed explicit expiry date is a huge dealbreaker.
Even the most subtle burn in bothers me, but grey instead of black doesn't. LED is better than OLED for me.
As soon as there is a technology with the same colours as OLED with absolutely no burn in (and my existing displays get too old), I'll consider it.
for a phone, OLED all the way. they just look better, behave better, and have better battery life. for anything else, LCD is fine. it may not look the best but it's way cheaper and you have to worry less about burn in
I would add, handheld gaming to the phone use case for OLED.
yeah great addition. I repaired an OLED steam deck a month or two ago and I was blown away by how nice the screen looked compared to my LCD switch (which still looks impressively good for an LCD)
All OLED all the way!
depends on the use case and the device.
I like to read in the dark, and a black OLED screen with white text is so much more comfortable than even an e-ink screen for me.
LCDs are good for price, I guess. All my big monitors are LCD, but phone has to be OLED.
I noticed that every Samsung phone is now OLED (branded as "AMOLED"), even the lowest of the budget A series.
Probably cheaper to just do Oled for the mobile line up vs split manufacturing.
The strange nature of mass producing parts...
LCD because price, although if I could get an mp3 player that used a monochrome oled display (the type that costs ~$1.50 USD) I would prefer it to one with a color LCD purely because it wouldn't take multiple seconds to change what's being displayed when it hits below - 40°. I hate how many device manufactures actively forget the cold exists.
Where the heck do you live that it gets to -40° on a regular basis? You'd have to be pretty close to the arctic or antarctic circles for that.
Alaska, the largest state in America home to the 4 largest cities in the United States.
4 largest cities? By what metric? Surely it wouldn't even come close on area, let alone population...
having more than 2000 square miles of area in a city is uncommon to say the least, we have 3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_area
It does matter. But all my big displays are still LCD, because of cost.
It's about blackpoint. With an LED, pixels which are black still have a backlight. This makes them a kind of grey.
With OLED, the pixels themselves emit light. This means that black pixels are unlit.
The difference is obvious in a dimly lit room looking at dark content.
That said, while I would love OLEDs all around, they're expensive. I'm willing to give up having true blacks for the cost difference. It may be different as costs on OLED come down.
I do have an OLED phone, because Samsung is pumping out OLEDs on everything.
OLED also matters more on phones because such a large fraction of their power use goes to the display (apparently up to 80% at max brightness on a task that doesn't require much computing power). A desktop would need one hell of a multi-monitor setup to get remotely close, plus you aren't as concerned about power usage when there's no battery to deplete.
It does matter, but does is it justify spending 50% more on a product? You'd only notice the difference if you did side-by-side testing anyway. Ignorance truly is bliss.
You definitely can easily tell led from oled. No need for a side by side test.
I said it matters: "the difference is obvious".
But for me, it does not justify the cost difference at the current time.
I've had both LCD monitors and OLED monitors and I'd say in terms of preference I prefer OLED. I'm an artist, so while I do mind the decrease in brightness compared to LCDs, after getting accustomed it's a small price to pay for the higher contrast and colour accuracy!
I would say OLED, though I had an old tv from 2017 that showed significant burn in after 4-5 years of usage. Anything that was red had a permanent shadow like the Netflix logo and some tv channel logos. As someone with hearing loss I also always have subtitles on which causes shadows there too.
Now it's apparently much better nowadays, still happens with excessive usage and I actually ended up buying an LCD tv this time. I do miss the OLED razor sharp contrast though.
Ed i: I just checked my pixel 5 phone with an OLED screen, it does indeed also have burn in on the top row when I put a red or green picture full screen. I wouldn't notice it unless I really looked though.
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