This confirms old technology lasts longer than new tech. My old Samsung TV is 11 years old and the TV has no issues still or burn in.

If I stop the VRR will the problem go away?

Is it normal for the picture on my Bravia 7 to sometimes look very out of focus for a few seconds before it comes is sharp and clear? I’m assuming it is upscaling my streaming content, but I just assumed it would be quicker. One time it took about 5-6 seconds. I just bought the TV and just want to make sure this is normal or if I have a bad processor/board.

My Hisense edge lit tv is 13 years old . No problems. Briteness is at 40%.

Just as I thought. OLED still as unreliable as ever I will never ever buy an OLED tv.

But how do I know if a TV is edge lit or not?

If you use max brightness setting you will burn out the LEDs, but that does not test durability. It is product abuse. Why not block the intake air on your PC and see what happens.... Nothing more than click bait.

midroll call to action broke the flow, had to bail, maybe the algorithm will have me finish it someday

TVs are made like cheap junk now unlike how they were in the 2000s.

This has confirmed my personal experience, which perceived wisdom seems to tell a lot of people is totally wrong, and that is that nearly all TVs are likely trash after around 5 years of typical usage. I've never had an LCD (illegally sold as "LED") TV last more than 3 years without showing some visible signs of burn-in, other panel degradation, or back light degradation, or all three. My WOLED TV still checks out fine with a calibrator and greyscale tests after 3 years. So far for me, WOLED wins by some margin.

Every edge-lit LCD (illegally sold as "LED") TV and monitor I've owned has suffered LED failure in under 3 years of typical usage. I hadn't realised how hot they ran until I tried replacing them in a TV a neighbour gave me and suffered burns to the palm of my hand while testing the panel out of the case. It didn't help that the back light brightness defaulted to 100% on this model rather than something actually sensible. He was using the brightness setting to dim it (which obviously led to an awful picture) rather than dimming the back lights. I'm sure that's what prematurely killed them in the first place.

Whos watching News 24/7 doesnt have a OLED 😂

It's been a real problem on all of my VRR LCD (illegally sold as "LED") monitors too. Given the choice between a diabolically awful picture with flicker or a mind-blowingly incredible picture with flicker, I'll go for the latter.

I've got a Sony bravia 55" series 700 made in 2014. I've always had the backlight turned down to a level 2 or 3 and the brightness no higher than level 50. It's still going strong to this day!

I’ll tell you why they failed, it’s because you’re playing cnn the communist news network propagandist machine 🤮

Ugh. I have QD-oled on the way and my mother in law watches CNN

So that is where all the CNN Views come from

So, don't watch CNN. Problem solved 😂

I guess gone are the days of buying a CRT TV that would last 15+ years.

I'm going to tell my story, 3 washing machines, 3 TVs, 2 Galaxy Note 8, 1 Note 10, 2 Galaxy watch, 1 Galaxy buds, 1 hard drive all Samsung brand, none reached 4 years old, Samsung I'm sorry but never again .

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I have alienware aw34dw oled. Has burn in badly been ran so many burn in videos and panel refreshes still has burn in.

Seriously love rtings, they helped me out so much during the phase where i was looking for the best ANC headphones, and now they're helped me decide on a monitor purchase with the same high standards :p

I have two,ten year old Panasonic plasma tvs still going strong,never a problem with burn in.I read the news,I dont watch people tell me the news.

My Vizio from 2008 still works fine .

The fix if you still have this issue. Is custom resolution with hz set to 1 under what your monitor is got a 165hz monitor set it up to 164 and no more flicker

I can't get a good notion of how bad of an issue this is in real life. My only experience with VRR is on a laptop with a 144 Hz IPS G-Sync screen. It's a few years old now and I've never noticed such an issue. In regards to OLEDs, does this happen with really erratic performance only? If you stay within say 100-120 fps, does it still occur? Some people make it sound like VRR is basically unable.

But the amount of FPS instability that you are using in your testing tool is just crazy. What game behaves like that? Sure maybe a few seconds when the level is just loaded or there's some extreme dip in FPS due to smoke or something. But generally the fips does not fluctuate that much - i wonder how big of an issue this really is in normal usage. I will get my OLED in a week or so, so I guess I will find out :)

Those TV’s are going to have PTSD having to display CNN for that amount of time.

Now I know why CNN even has any ratings at all. They are from these tests!!! 😂

I can confirm this is true. Tested with a laser temperature reader, Samsung Q60A edge-lit QLED TV reads 116 degrees F at the bottom edge at level 50 (100%) brightness. Dropping it to level 35 dropped the temps to 97 degrees. The brightness makes a big difference in longetivity.

Woman's single-handedly the reason CNN isn't already bankrupt.

I will go for Micro LED because OLED is not good enough.

You guys are best❤

I appreciate pure datas values like this, keep up !

You found a practical purpose for CNN. Not for actual human watching. 👌

Curious to know what power conditioning if any was used?

i have a box fan blowing on my tv to keep it cool lol hey it works it never overheats

The problem is that you have CNN playing on your TVs. It will damage your tvs and your minds too

Nice ive had my sony oled for 2 years and no burn in. Probaly havent had it long enough to get burn in. I play alot of games but oled is so dope. Probaly wont see any burn in till after 5-8 years of use but guess will see. The picture quality is amazing. But i’ll report back later if something unusual pops up

Maybe I'm special or something. First of all I'd like to say I've never had a TV fail on me. The next thing you need to know is my TVs are never shut off. If I'm home it's on. Sometimes I have months off from work and don't leave the house. It's on 24 hours a day during those periods. The only reason I ever bought any of my TVs is just for a bigger screen. I don't really see that much difference in the high dollar ones to the low dollar ones. I don't need anything fancy.

These tests along with some other videos from the channel has me convinced to pick up a lg qned866 mini-led . I don't need the latest greatest but this seems to fit everything no burn in and no edge lit failure. Its quite hard and I must admit getting lost in the forest of specs but this seems to fit the bill . The more I read reviews and watch them on KZbin the harder it was choosing , but I just wanted a few simple things. For it to work have good image quality and (hopefully) last a minimum of 5 years but aiming for longer

extra thin TV, extra hot, extra short lifespan

My guest room 2018 Samsung 6 series 55 inch 4k HDR edge still works just fine and I live in Arizona it’s been heavily used the only downside is the terribly slow OS

Frame cap and upgrading for stable fps kinda defeats purpose of using VRR in the first place 😅

Haha edge lit TVs are no longer mage. Load of nonsense.

Amazing stuff. I got a M32U and I noticed it heats a bit in its lower corners, and even using it at a lower brightness setting, I wonder how long it will take to cause some issues. My previous monitor was also edge-lit but I never noticed any heat irradiating from it. Guess it is a large area to be lit by a LED strip, anyway. Now my next display will probably be OLED, but I'm start thinking I should've waited a bit more for a backlit display with a mini-led arrange, and maybe a functional local dimming feature.

I am a tv repair techenician. I totally agree on the feedback you have provided on flat screen tv where side lited tv failed and the backlit sheet was very difficult to replace. Moreover this company delebratly make tvs with out enough air ventilation, they should provide extra fan like in laptop. These company wants sale they dont care about enverolment impack.

It’s almost always the power supply. TVs like TCL, Vizio, & other cheap brands use cheap power supplies. That’s one of the ways they’re able to charge less for their TVs. Sony, Panasonic, and LG will use better more expensive internal parts and power supply. Unfortunately, what ratings is doing? Is giving information no doubt but one model of a TV dying after their torture test it really doesn’t tell much of anything. You would need a minimum of same 10 TVs really you would 100 TVs or as many as possible to get the best results.

Wow this is really great information. Upvote for sure!