Asus and MSI quietly extend OLED monitor warranties with improved OLED burn-in coverage

[Redaktion]

OLED gaming monitors are becoming increasingly popular, with dozens of new examples having been showcased last month at CES 2024. While WOLED and QD-OLED panels feature various technical advantages over their IPS and VA counterparts, two major gaming monitor manufacturers have now increased their respective warranties and guarantees for OLED panels, including if OLED burn-in occurs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-and-MSI-quietly-extend-OLED-monitor-warranties-with-improved-OLED-burn-in-coverage.800788.0.html

[Mr Majestyk]

No where long enough warranty on burn-in. If I'm paying $2K+ for a monitor it better damn well last at least 10 years trouble free. 3 years is a joke and a PC monitor has far more static icons etc than a TV and will be fart worse for burn-in.

[NikoB]

My old monitor with AdobeRGB 94-95% and 7ms real response on SPVAx panel with CCFL lamps has already worked for 42400 hours (such models, similar in class, adjusted for progress in IT and dollar devaluation during this time, now cost about $1300-1400). It is already quite slow to burn up, but according to the calibrator it still produces over 300 nits of brightness, if necessary.

No OLED can even come close to it in terms of lifetime and stable сolor accuracy/color space. And these are not even LED-backlit panels, which burn out even slower than CCFL.

In order for someone to buy overpriced OLED models with disgusting calibration quality (which also quickly goes beyond the tolerances ranges), with glossy glare screens and often with resolution in color that does not correspond to what is stated in the datasheet, the prices need to drop by 3-4 times or the guarantee against burn in and for color accuracy with dE<2 (at least after hardware calibration) was at least 10 years...

Fools with money can certainly buy them, but there are fewer and fewer fools with money in terms of purchasing power to the extent that it interests the beneficiaries of technology manufacturing companies. Because the "middle class" is disappearing all over the planet.