5 best OLED TVs (2025)

Especially in its early years, OLED highlight is its increased risk of burning or retaining images because of traditional backlight displays. In part, due to the use of organic compounds, OLED panels can easily deteriorate at different speeds in time, which can potentially lead to variations in brightness and color.

Fortunately, OLED burning is increasingly rare in modern TVs for several reasons, including features such as screen savings, static image detection and other hardware methods to reduce and eliminate image retention. Although burning remains a slight worry, it is worth just considering an extremely large volume of users such as gamers who maintain a static screen image for a few hours (or days) at a time. Even then it is usually not constant. For most OLED, burning is not something to worry about.

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