3 ways modern OLEDs prevent burn-in that you don’t even notice
There’s little, if any, debate: OLED TVs offer the best picture quality you can get for a TV at home, with dark, deep blacks and vibrant colors. While some models perform better than others, and there are new TV technologies giving OLED a run for its money, like microLED TVs, OLED is still a fantastic option. But there has historically been one big problem with OLED TVs: burn-in. If you leave a channel on too long, burn-in is when a part of the image that remains static starts to “burn in” to the screen. It’s different from image retention, where an image remains on screen long after it has disappeared, but then eventually goes away. Burn-in is more severe, a permanent etching of that image on your screen. This means it’s faintly visible permanently, most noticeable if you’re watching something where there’s black in the portion where the burn-in has occurred. It can happen if you pause the TV and forget it or with channels that have a network logo on the corner, like CP24. …
