7 Best OLED TVs (2025): Sony, LG, Samsung, and More

Particularly in its early years, OLED’s biggest concern has been its increased risk of burn-in, or image retention, compared to traditional backlit displays. Partly due to the use of organic compounds, OLED panels can degrade more easily at different rates over time, potentially leading to variations in brightness and colors, especially around long exposure images.

Thankfully, OLED burn-in is becoming increasingly less common in modern TVs for a number of reasons, including features like screen savers, static image detection, and other hardware methods to reduce and improve image retention. While burn-in remains a mild concern, it’s only worth considering for extremely high-volume users like gamers who keep a static image on the screen for several hours (or days) at a time. Yet this is usually not permanent. For most people, OLED burn-in is not a concern.

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