Will HDR kill your OLED TV?
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> HDR requires greater brightness, so will that shorten
> the lifespan of OLEDs?
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> I love the picture you get from an OLED TV. It reminds
> me of the paintings on black velvet that I used to see
> at roadside stands in the 1970s. Don't get me wrong,
> there are some excellent LCD TVs out there, especially
> those employing quantum dots, but that's a topic for
> another time - along with LCD lifespans.
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> The story here is that my infatuation with OLED is
> mitigated by the fact that OLED elements, being
> organic after a fashion, have a lifespan. HDR will
> reduce said lifespan, though by how much, vendors
> aren't saying. Fortunately, other folks in the
> business were willing to talk.
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> The author's basic conclusion is yes, HDR does shorten the life of an
> OLED TV quite considerably (his rough calculation out it as going from
> 100,000 hours down to 25,000 hours).
You have to wonder where the already-shorted-out TVs are, for example.