Displays are something that are not my forte, so I am looking experts here. Please assist only based on personal experience and not google/youtube experience.
I am leaning towards OLED because I am getting an OLED monitor that costs around 2L new but since the stand is little damaged company is giving it out for basically 60% of the price. The problem with OLED is the burn in issue and my PC stays up almost 18 hours a day and I don’t have time to auto hide taskbar and all that BS. What I am asking here is, how soon have you encountered the burn in or have you not encountered it at all?
IPS 4K is another option but I will have to buy it new and throw that OLED deal in trash.
Without precautions. you will get burn in pretty soon although it may or may not be easily visible.
We need to try to not have lines and the like in the same place continuously as that causes different levels of wear.
Probably best not to waste money with OLED if its going to be on 18 hrs a day without precautions.
I am using Oled for both work and play and take a lot of precautions - low brightness (3%), low gain for blue and green pixels, hidden task bar, dark mode everywhere ( black rather than grey ), pitch black wallpaper - for lock screen too, applications opening in random locations, timeout in 1m et . I have gotten used to this, and it doesn’t affect my work ( mostly coding ). I actually like the pitch black backgrounds because it makes low brightness usable in darkish room.
You can try to do this on current monitor and see if you can adapt.
For games, its just perfect. I dont think i will touch plain IPS/VA ever now for gaming. Maybe miniled might be a decent compromise, dunno.
Also, OLED monitors are cheaper now. I bought Dell Aw32 for 1.05L when it had gotten cheaper by 20k-25k i think.
In recent sale, it even went to 90L. Might get good deal in diwali.
You can look at a series of videos from monitor unboxed that uses OLED monitor for desktop usage without precautions.
Latest is here -
@@Tracer_Bullet approach seems best, if you do follow it, you might get couple of years out of your oled without noticeable burn in.
My brother has a LG OLED tv from 2018 that has slight youtube logo burned in from the youtube app. Barely visible on it’s own. But TV is not used as much as PC.
It might actually be easier on eyes for me as i use low brightness + black background (=> No light from black pixels ) and there is no constant backlight.
It does have high contrast, so white stuff on black background can be too much even at low brightness. So i also reduced gain for blue and green pixels.
Dunno, might depend on individual. I did notice some slight flickering initially depending on content i think while testing something, maybe freesync. But now i don’t see anything at all.
OLED + hardware gsync modules supposedly don’t have any issues.
I absolutely love it. Proper HDR is a serious upgrade over SDR. Doom eternal looks extremely good.
I have used 3 oled displays so far. Samsung smoled ( M30s), then had to replace it with 3rd party oled screen ( just 2k) when it broke down, And now also qdoled on desktop.
Have 0 issues, and like them all. Only thing that is uncomfortable is black background/dark mode + white text/image in low room light. Contrast is extreme, but fix is simple for me ( I use Green 30% and Blue 1% gain + 3% display brightness ).
Normal non dark mode looks ok ( but will use up much more power and degrade faster).
I still use LCD on laptop which is fine for work but otherwise will never use plain LCD ever again hopefully. My eyes are fine and i dont have any addition strain vs lcd.
Mental health ? Seriously ? Perhaps can bring some joy to those who like nice graphics.
I don’t know why I didn’t mentioned the whole thing, I was looking for 2 monitors and initially when I posted there was another monitor I had eyes on that was 2L and later I dropped that stupid idea.
Update: Settled on Gigabyte AORUS FO32U2P. These QD-OLEDs are on another level. I mean I use a LG OLED in my living room but this just eats it. Just need to get a monitor stand/arm now cause these 2 basically covered my whole desk.
I got the same Gigabyte model and it has major quirks. I’m coming from a Dell UP3017 which has better colour presentation in Adobe RGB (my preferred colour space) and the Gigabyte cannot match it in colour volume.
The supplied cables are extremely short, and the monitor does not work well with older DP1.4 or HDMI 2.0 cables even if when turned down into compatibility mode. Thus I am forced into buying new cables, which do not exist yet or are a little pricey. None of my GPUs can go up to the 240Hz refresh rate at 4k on any of my games, not even my 4090. Most YT content maxes out at 1080p and appear heavily pixelated in full screen.
The black levels are very good as expected, but the purple QD tint is a bother, as is the glossy mirror-finished screen. I expected good HDR and it is good, though still unusable because of the glare and the severe drop in colour volume and gamma tracking with HDR enabled. Colours look wrong in HDR mode, and given that SDR isn’t amazing to begin with I don’t see the point.
The KVM drops out sometimes when multiple devices are connected. Literally the only thing that was upgraded was the black level, and the purple tint and reflective screen cancel that out because you get purple blacks (and whites) in bright lighting, or the reflection of the brightest spots in the room in dark ambient. Even my light grey keyboard is plainly visible in the reflection.
Honestly, coming from 20 years of Ultrasharp monitors I’ve been a bit spoiled, and maybe I’ll get the new model of that instead and move this into another room. I guess if you’re coming in from something cheaper it will be an upgrade, but for me it was full of compromises.
