OLED Uniformity and Greyscale Test - Check your TV for Burn In and Banding

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This video is a short test to check for OLED burn-in, colour uniformity and banding.
For me the red gave me clear indications of burn in on a LG 65C6 OLED, newer OLED TV's are definitely much better at resisting burn in and I also checked on an LG 55CX OLED and an LG 77C1 OLED which were perfect.
What is burn-in?
Burn-in occurs when I leave static images on my OLED screen for too long. This can permanently damage the pixels, resulting in ghosting or image retention. To prevent burn-in, I should avoid displaying static elements like logos for extended periods and make use of features like pixel shifting or screensavers.
What is banding?
Banding refers to visible lines or bands that appear during color gradients. It happens due to slight manufacturing variations, causing uneven color reproduction. While OLED technology has improved, banding may still be noticeable in some cases, especially in lower-quality panels, but this is very rare in 2023 as OLED is becoming ever more popular.
What is colour uniformity?
Color uniformity is about how consistent the colors appear across the entire screen. OLED panels can have slight variations in color and brightness, leading to certain areas looking different from others. This issue may be more apparent in large areas of solid color or when viewing the screen from different angles.
You can help to prevent burn-in by avoiding static images and using features like pixel refresh and screensavers if using as a monitor.
Timestamps:
Black, White & Grey - 00:00
Colours - 00:12
Greyscale - 00:36
#oled #banding #tv #monitor
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  • @claymore7970
    @claymore79706 ай бұрын

    Its all fun and games until everyone arrives at the 95% greyecale

  • @Tectosaurus

    @Tectosaurus

    5 ай бұрын

    My iPhone 13 Pro Max has slight burn in at 95%, the white home bar and wifi/battery icons. It’s so slight and not noticeable in regular use at all.

  • @enderduy7016

    @enderduy7016

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Tectosaurussame bro🥲

  • @Tectosaurus

    @Tectosaurus

    5 ай бұрын

    @@enderduy7016 don’t worry about it, the icons are always there so it was bound to happen

  • @Lexidezi225

    @Lexidezi225

    5 ай бұрын

    I got a iPhone 13 Pro Max and there is no burn in anywhere

  • @jwalker7567

    @jwalker7567

    5 ай бұрын

    iPhone 12 mini, slight red haze around the edge of the screen and battery slightly burned in. I have auto lock turned off. My iPhone 6 lasted until last year with auto lock off and it probably had at least 100 dead pixels over its entire display. Became too slow.

  • @miguelvillalobos4142
    @miguelvillalobos41425 ай бұрын

    Best test there is!

  • @jb97techandgadgets

    @jb97techandgadgets

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @DefiantAML
    @DefiantAML16 күн бұрын

    LG C2 here, used for gaming, movies and TV shows. Had the TV over a year and so far so good. (No Burn in detected) My old LG OLED had some gnarly burn in but that was an early gen TV so it was gonna happen. (it still gets used as a TV where the burn in is less noticeable)

  • @InsightfulUndercurrents
    @InsightfulUndercurrents5 ай бұрын

    So my iPhone 12 mini’s burns after 3 years are visbily in the greyscale over 90% and of course it is the battery, WiFi and others in the areas beside the notch and the white bar at the bottom of the screen 😂 . That is actually a massive step up from back in the day where my s7 samsung had visible burn in during normal use a year in.

  • @DanielJones-ok8cn
    @DanielJones-ok8cn15 күн бұрын

    My button navigation bar got a slight retention, thanks god I found this out early and switched to gesture navigation.

  • @cruisertechgt
    @cruisertechgt8 күн бұрын

    iPad M4 with Tandem OLED checks good. No Vertical Banding or uniformity issues.

  • @minisculex3
    @minisculex32 ай бұрын

    2 years of phone oled and still not a single sign of burn in, but to be fair i using it on all form of media and not using it in full blast brightness

  • @thommyavv8905
    @thommyavv8905Ай бұрын

    On my 95C Neo QLED, regular image retention was most prevelant on 60% and 75%

  • @JohnSmith-oh9ux
    @JohnSmith-oh9ux5 ай бұрын

    LG OLED C1 with 6000hrs run time. No burn-in or banding to speak of. Noice.

  • @HazewinDog

    @HazewinDog

    3 ай бұрын

    Right? My second hand LG B9 that has seen VERY heavy desktop usage from me the past years, is still perfect as well!

  • @Psythik

    @Psythik

    Ай бұрын

    4673 hours, here. I've been using my 65" C1 as my primary monitor for nearly three years now *(edit:* I compute from a recliner: keyboard in lap and mouse on armrest.. so much more comfortable than a desk). I disabled every "OLED care" setting, including ASBL (TPC & GSR) in the service menu and still, there are *zero* signs of burn-in. The only preventive maintenance I do is autohide the taskbar and set the wallpaper to Slideshow with a 30 minute interval. Anybody who is still afraid to buy an OLED is a damn fool. Well those people can go ahead and enjoy their washed-out IPS; while I sit here with my infinite contrast ratio and vibrant HDR, laughing at those idiots. Seriously, you haven't experienced HDR properly until you've seen it on an OLED. Hell, you haven't experienced a *monitor* properly until you've had an OLED.

  • @VincenzoMGREX
    @VincenzoMGREX2 ай бұрын

    ok if you got a new oled screen and have those vertical lines on greyscale, i advise you to wait couple of months. I was worried whey i bought my expansive monitor because the lines ware really noticibe but after 3 months and a couple pixel cleaning cycles it went away compleatly. Give it time and take care.

  • @g0ggy

    @g0ggy

    Ай бұрын

    This is a really important comment. RTings did a video on this topic and doesn't consider these artifacts actual permanent burn-in. I ran a manual short compensation cycle after noticing a few vertical lines on the gray scale at 95% and they disappeared next time I turned on the monitor.

  • @jb97techandgadgets

    @jb97techandgadgets

    Ай бұрын

    I have seen before on my LG 55CX where on a grey screen the uniformity is awful, looks really muddy, but I believe every 4 hours of power on time an OLED will do a small self clean automatically.

  • @Lodzio20
    @Lodzio207 ай бұрын

    If i see some vertical banding from 50% to 90% on right side of the screen should i consider returning it if its not visible while watching real content/playing games?

  • @blaux

    @blaux

    6 ай бұрын

    The banding is either youtube bit crushing the video, or auto contrast settings. Color banding is not a defect of hardware, it is a result of content streaming.

  • @HazewinDog

    @HazewinDog

    3 ай бұрын

    @@blaux there should be no banding in this video though

  • @James-xo2jh

    @James-xo2jh

    Ай бұрын

    Which device are you using? Im having similar issue in my new OnePlus 12

  • @scaramouche768

    @scaramouche768

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@James-xo2jh Hey bro I notice the same "banding" / "splotches". The splotches are very apparent when the screen is at it's lowest brightness and you receive a call when the phone is locked. It's not too visible when you receive a call when the phone is unlocked though.

  • @MrStrictlyOLED
    @MrStrictlyOLED3 ай бұрын

    My question here would be can you see OLED screen uniformity while playing content? I know with the test here you can but without this test is it noticeable?

  • @Conflict125

    @Conflict125

    2 ай бұрын

    Depends how bad it is. I found mine playing games

  • @MrFaleh1129
    @MrFaleh11297 ай бұрын

    Could you make this video in 32:9 aspect ratio so I can test out my monitor ?

  • @SwAT36

    @SwAT36

    7 ай бұрын

    yeah

  • @martinchuter3434
    @martinchuter34348 ай бұрын

    What are the white square blocks across the very top of the screen above 80% grey???

  • @MarcABrown-tt1fp

    @MarcABrown-tt1fp

    6 ай бұрын

    That's burn in sadly.

  • @RyanIsRad427

    @RyanIsRad427

    6 ай бұрын

    actually it isnt burn in, i know exactly what youre talking about, and i saw the same thing on a new oled monitor mind you, then i switched to my IPS monitor and ran it again , it did the same thing, must be something with the video/the streaming of the video or something.

  • @piscolaaa

    @piscolaaa

    5 ай бұрын

    I can see the same. No idea what they are, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it 😅

  • @sezginyavuz8847

    @sezginyavuz8847

    5 ай бұрын

    Same lol, and can't be burn in 100% sure as this phone just arrived. Probably the vid or something

  • @georgekritos4855

    @georgekritos4855

    4 ай бұрын

    It must be due to the video quality. I've noticed the same thing on my oled c3 and I panicked! And I tried to lower the resolution of the KZread streaming and I have noticed that the squares get bigger😂😂 that means it is embedded on the video

  • @UhhhGoblin
    @UhhhGoblin28 күн бұрын

    i have some at 90-95 should i be concerned about getting a refund, its still early?

  • @UhhhGoblin

    @UhhhGoblin

    28 күн бұрын

    it seems to come and go as i perform image cleanses sometimes

  • @StevenAydenTan
    @StevenAydenTan10 күн бұрын

    Legit thought there was a white line during 0:00 on the side of my phone but turns out it was a fullscreen bug

  • @smokinj0e
    @smokinj0eАй бұрын

    Argh, burn in detected on my six-year-old Galaxy S9 upon close inspection in white, which is oddly the KZread app itself 😂

  • @ChrisDavis333
    @ChrisDavis3337 ай бұрын

    I’m scared to run this on my new oled because if it’s janky I’m never going to forget it

  • @garylapointe

    @garylapointe

    6 ай бұрын

    I agree. I'm not going to run it on my old one either. At least not until I'm trying to justify replacing it :)

  • @ChrisDavis333

    @ChrisDavis333

    6 ай бұрын

    lol same.. I definitely don’t feel like dealing with taking my brand new LG G3 off the wall, dismantling the wall mount and packing it all up and then lugging it around to try and return it. All because I watched this KZread video, that would be insane. I refuse lol

  • @infined304

    @infined304

    6 ай бұрын

    If you have warranty, you should. It would kill me not knowing there’s a dead pixel on my new oled

  • @tactical_philanthropy

    @tactical_philanthropy

    5 ай бұрын

    Well, I just got mine 3 days ago. And let me tell you, you don't wanna see 95%. ... Everything was stellar until 95%. Now I gotta make a psychological choice to forget.

  • @ChrisDavis333

    @ChrisDavis333

    5 ай бұрын

    @@tactical_philanthropy yeah that’s my point, I know it would bother me to no end if I ran it. So best to just avoid it and just enjoy my TV instead of feeling like I got ripped off or that my brand new several thousand dollar TV is broken.

  • @roynaldojanwar2931
    @roynaldojanwar29312 ай бұрын

    My display looks horrible at 95% grayscale with 0% brightness 😢

  • @GoldenSW
    @GoldenSWАй бұрын

    There's noticeable burnin of some windows taskbar icons and groups of dead pixels on my LG C9. I never used it past 60 brightness since I usually watch in a dark environment. Also, it's strictly used as a display for a htpc so the taskbar is rarely visible (switching movies, downloading, copying or deleting stuff etc.). It's only 4 years old. My older LED TV was abused for 10 years and I only upgraded because I wanted better picture quality, otherwise looked brand new. Quite disappointing big reviewers love to advertise burnin is not really an issue we should worry about it when it clearly is.

  • @jb97techandgadgets

    @jb97techandgadgets

    Ай бұрын

    It’s definitely an issue, my LG 55CX gets used for gaming/youtube/Windows pc quite a lot and no issues, but doesn’t mean to say it doesn’t happen.

  • @dri_him
    @dri_him Жыл бұрын

    Better if the transition was smooth gradation instead of instant.

  • @Psythik

    @Psythik

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah seriously I've been looking for such a video, but none are to be found.

  • @jb97techandgadgets

    @jb97techandgadgets

    Жыл бұрын

    Good idea! I'll get this done and updated at some point. If theres anything else let me know so when I get round to updating I'll add it in.

  • @joligrunlaub3412

    @joligrunlaub3412

    11 ай бұрын

    Numbers on greyscale are wrong 100 percent should be the brigthest frame.

  • @HazewinDog

    @HazewinDog

    3 ай бұрын

    how so? that would make it very difficult to see any issues.

  • @DavidDeSchepper-ph8lf
    @DavidDeSchepper-ph8lf24 күн бұрын

    55c7v complete toast

  • @Eatmangothentango
    @Eatmangothentango17 күн бұрын

    my iphone 13 pro has tiktok burned into it after less than 2 years of having it

  • @jonathanparle8429
    @jonathanparle84293 ай бұрын

    Don't watch this video if you are blissfully happy with your TV....

  • @Akotski-ys9rr
    @Akotski-ys9rr29 күн бұрын

    At grayscale 95%, the edges of my screen are slightly green

  • @yashbhalla25

    @yashbhalla25

    21 күн бұрын

    On white screen 😢 Edges on my phone have a bluish tint 😅 It is negligible and only visible in white wallpapers

  • @Radu_-ro6fp
    @Radu_-ro6fp5 ай бұрын

    Right now I use an galaxy a51 that used to be my mother's. The screen is incredibly burned, the worst part is that the burn-ins shape the tiktok UI 💀 Anyway, the navigation buttons are definely visible, even on the wallpaper, the difference when the Grayscale showed up most likely could even be seen on camera

  • @Datacorrupter234
    @Datacorrupter2343 ай бұрын

    my 13 year old lcd is still perfect! so is my 60,000 hours plasma tv lol

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