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Recap
When I reviewed the 48-inch LG C10 earlier this year. I loved it so much that as soon as David got his own and returned mine. I dumped my old monitor setup and put it in my office and all of the great stuff I said about it still holds up. Be it movies, spreadsheets, or wiping.
Burn in
But before you click on that, this burn-in is a result of my windows into the four corners of my display, a pretty common thing to do on such a large monitor, and Wendell from level one Tex, who has been daily driving one of these for longer than me, has also hit some snags.
It is amazing, but what's not amazing is that I'm starting to see signs of burn-in. It's unsettling it's just enough to be unsettling. Hopefully that works. I guess we'll find out soon enough. But while it's running, let's talk about burning a little more because there are a lot of mixed messages out there, including from us.
On the one hand, you've got manufacturers like LG saying it's not a problem, and on the other hand, you've got tech experts like Wendell saying I would say that with heavy use, you know, six to ten hours a day, you can only count on these things lasting about a year, maybe two. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between, but to understand why, we need a bit of background.
The term "burn-in" is a relic of the CRT days when your monitor was as big as a microwave and your TV was the size of an oven. It's also a total mischaracterization of the problem because a "burn-in" refers to ghost images that were quite literally burned. In the luminescent phosphor coating on the back of the glass of those older style displays, here's an example that is so extreme that the DMV stopped having to turn the TV on anymore, but we continue to use this term because even though the mechanisms are different, the behavior of modern displays can be very similar, so whether you're talking about a CRT.
LCD, plasma, or OLED, if you display static or non-moving images for extended periods of time, you might eventually see them as ghosts that haunt your other content. This type of image retention can affect nearly all direct-view modern displays.
How likely is it?
The only difference is how likely you are to encounter it on LCDs, which make up the majority of TVs and monitors today. We could more accurately describe this phenomenon as image retention because it's typically caused by the liquid crystals losing their ability to easily return to a relaxed state.
We don't talk about it much though, because it's pretty uncommon, unlike lttstore, Com. We talk about that all the time. Look at this great desk pad. As for OLEDs, each pixel of an OLED display, actually each RGB subpixel, is an individual light source, and like LCDs, they're controlled by thin film transistors that can get stuck on, which is why the retention on my screen appears as a bright spot rather than a dark spot.
The thing is that this can happen way sooner than on an LCD, since illuminating a subpixel takes more voltage, and that's not all. O and OLED mean that each subpixel is organic and from the moment it turns on it deteriorates.
Can we do anything?
The brighter each one of those little candles burns, the faster it will dim now. So, to combat this, educated OLED users can employ a number of tricks to extend their lifespan. I've been running this monitor super conservatively.
My OLED brightness has only been around 60. I left on the, you know, the logo compensation thing where it tries to detect a logo or, you know, like the start menu, and it's like let me move that around a little bit. Those are some good tips. Lowering the brightness overall means that each pixel isn't blasting out as much light, wearing itself out.
Did it work?
My brightness, by the way, was usually set to 80, and I also have pixel shift and logo compensation enabled. Let's take a look at our results, shall we? Okay, hold on. Yes, a lot better, but this kind of thing doesn't work forever. The pixel refresh function of the display does help when you turn it off.
It's supposed to automatically do that on its own, but I think it's kind of diminishing returns at this point. Text in certain areas is not quite as sharp as it used to be, and I've got this sort of weird red splotch in the middle of the screen because, you know, so much stuff is going on in the middle of the screen, great.
And, even if the pixel refresher works perfectly for you, there are some daily use problems with these TVs that we should have caught in our review.
Daily use issues
Now I understand why LG is doing this. Remember the whole burn-in thing but when you've got three displays all side by side by side, something as simple as dragging a window across a border can cause one or more of the TVs to suddenly change their brightness from I think I can see it to eye-searing.
On the other hand. I'm only running one 48-inch display and I only have to do my little brightness dance when I'm reading or editing a large document for an extended period of time, so given that burn-in is a much larger concern for me. I'm content to leave the auto dimming alone, but if you absolutely cannot tolerate it, there does appear to be a fix and, that's right, we've got it. This is the LG service technician remote that can supposedly access menus that are hidden using the regular consumer one allploof, said to play with it.
Service remote
Shall we Okay, well, I mean key. Okay, you can do just regular stuff like changing input. It's p-check, crap. facts I just want this remote to just be this remote.
Can I UNP check it, sound check it, picture check it, and sound check it? That's what it is man, there's so many buttons on here that's P only. LG service remote password Here We Go Boys, According to Reddit, it's a zero, four-one-three. What's so special about that date? LG, and look how smart this is.
You see, the ire emitter is angled such that it'll just work if you're just holding it like this and looking at it. That's awesome hello, this all looks like the regular menu, hi in start and then we want OLED TPC enabled off. Okay hi, look at that, hdr on off just like that. I guess normal is auto-man.
This is the kind of thing you could really get into the weeds tuning and, by the way, it would void the heck out of your warranty, so if you ever need to get any kind of service done or even update the firmware on your TV, it is strongly recommended that you return all the service menu options to normal and then do it, otherwise I take no responsibility for your stuff breaking all right, and we're back. Is this brighter than before?.
