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Sarcastic S.O.B. isn't he, Life is good so is ball busting. Reminds me of Clemenza's line in the Godfather.
HDMI is backwards compatible so if the device had HDMI 2.1 you could just hook up the HDMI 2.0 from your laptop. That is enough for 4K 60 Hz 8-bit.
I wouldn't expect one to last long term.
Don't expect 10 years of use out of a OLED. I believe 5 years a reasonable expectation out a OLED.
I would think two to three, on average, based on what I have read about televisions. Best Buy is the place to buy OLED. I don't know if they will carry this particular monitor.
I think that it is a given that it will be a 42" TV. If LG Display is making the panels then it will be a WRGB pixel structure which won't look as good for text when using it as a computer monitor. It won't stop people from using it as a computer monitor though...
I did not see a lot of details on the 42 inch panel but they did say more models of OLED monitors are on the way....
True. But LG Display said only the 42inch panel size is coming in 2021 which means LG Electronics will probably announce the 42inch TV at 2022 CES. So we are still at least a year away from getting a 42inch TV. Smaller sizes will be even further away.
Not sure. I did't see an announcement for a 31 inch panel for this year monitor - did you ?
I don't recall seeing that. The only panel that I saw confirmed to start manufacturing this year was the 42" panel. The 30" and below panel sizes I believe they said were 'planned' but no firm timeline was given.
B6P owner here:
WRGB is honestly alright for desktop use based on 6 months on my 48" CX. In MacOS there is zero issue as it uses no font smoothing and in Windows using grayscale font smoothing works out quite alright to my eyes. RGB and BGR subpixel smoothings are usable but not perfect. I wish Windows had options for non-pixel grid fonts like MacOS.
Good to hear. The 42" should be even better because the pixels will be even smaller.
I would imagine that it will burn in very well before 30,000 hours. Their televisions are lasting nowhere near that long and they don't have near as much static content as PC use would have.
It all depends on usage and content. Some people go years without burn-in, if you're careful with brightness and static images. Even so, I'm deathly afraid of it, as I expect my run my screens into the ground, they must last like a decade or so. Getting burn-in in a few years does not sound fun.
I'd say 5 years is about the time I would have any display and then would swap it for something better as something better would be on the market for sure. With LCDs it's easier to recoup part of the cost though so I might end up selling my CX 48" earlier and moving to for example the 42" OLED model that is rumored to be released maybe next year.
That's the real issue, as it's the most common case scenario: hours upon hours of Excel or Word every day. That's a lot of white to display. If I could have a guarantee of no burn-in for 5 years, I'd happily spend the money and then toss the display... but if image retention starts to creep in at 1 or 2 years of usage, then it's no good. As long as there's no guarantee, I don't see people making such an investment.
I guess I should add this to my signature - I have been using the OLED as a monitor for 4,5 years. No burn-in happened. I did have panel replacement after approximately 3 years of use, (like, 2 days before the warranty expired, lol), but that was not burn-in related. I guess I misused the built-in manual pixel refresher procedure.
Well then OLED is not for you at this point, maybe never. Nothing stops you from working around your use cases and maybe having a second LCD to use for that stuff for example. As OLEDs become smaller this becomes a more feasible setup. I could not comfortably fit a second monitor to go with my 48" CX and hope to have proper placement for my large Genelec speakers.
That’s been my plan all along, I was just trying to contextualizar while many will still not be able to go OLED for a while. Personally I want a 27” OLED so I can put it next to my 27” LCD. Then I can use one only for work, and the other one for games and videos.
I'll put it this way: After seeing how badly WFH has ruined my B6, I'm likely going with a MiniLED for my next display. If you can wait a few years for MicroLED to shrink down to sub-88" form factors, that's likely going to be the way to go.
well, 2018+ models have a much better protection for burn in after fixing the weak red pixel or something.
And I understand that. But if I'm going to be WFH for much longer even the double rated lifetime of the B7+ series is still going to result in me pushing panel lifetime limits after 2-3 years.
Are you sure that the 17” model comes in OLED? I remember only the 15” Blade (or any laptop, for that matter) getting an OLED panel.
You're correct, only the 15" model has OLED (in 4k). I meant to say that.
