OLED monitors are the hot ticket for PC upgrades , both on the gaming and standard productivity sides. But if you were around when OLED panels were starting to spread in TVs and smartphones, you might be a little worried about burn-in. One YouTuber’s long-term testing shows that, at least for some of the more recent designs, you shouldn’t be.

We checked out the burn-in torture test from Monitors Unboxed back in February , when a year of brutal use for thousands of hours showed visible, but minimal burn-in for a 4K OLED panel. After extending the same worst-case scenario test to 18 months and over 4000 hours of side-by-side productivity tasks, the testing also shows a persistent, dark taskbar, as is probably the standard for most Windows 11 users.

Watching the results on my own OLED

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