Budget 90k+ OLED vs IPS 4K monitor

abhijeet.xin said:

- I am leaning towards OLED because I am getting an OLED monitor that costs around 2L new but since the stand is little damaged company is giving it out for basically 60% of the price. The problem with OLED is the burn in issue and my PC stays up almost 18 hours a day and I don't have time to auto hide taskbar and all that BS. What I am asking here is, how soon have you encountered the burn in or have you not encountered it at all?

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Without precautions. you will get burn in pretty soon although it may or may not be easily visible.
We need to try to not have lines and the like in the same place continuously as that causes different levels of wear.

Probably best not to waste money with OLED if its going to be on 18 hrs a day without precautions.

I am using Oled for both work and play and take a lot of precautions - low brightness (3%), low gain for blue and green pixels, hidden task bar, dark mode everywhere ( black rather than grey ), pitch black wallpaper - for lock screen too, applications opening in random locations, timeout in 1m et . I have gotten used to this, and it doesn't affect my work ( mostly coding ). I actually like the pitch black backgrounds because it makes low brightness usable in darkish room.
You can try to do this on current monitor and see if you can adapt.

For games, its just perfect. I dont think i will touch plain IPS/VA ever now for gaming. Maybe miniled might be a decent compromise, dunno.
Also, OLED monitors are cheaper now. I bought Dell Aw32 for 1.05L when it had gotten cheaper by 20k-25k i think.
In recent sale, it even went to 90L. Might get good deal in diwali.

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You can look at a series of videos from monitor unboxed that uses OLED monitor for desktop usage without precautions.
Latest is here -

@Tracer_Bullet approach seems best, if you do follow it, you might get couple of years out of your oled without noticeable burn in.

My brother has a LG OLED tv from 2018 that has slight youtube logo burned in from the youtube app. Barely visible on it's own. But TV is not used as much as PC.

50K on Amazon, cheapest Mini-Led currently

If you plan to game - go with oled
If you plan to work long hours- IPS to minimize eye strain & headache

jakehifi said:

If you plan to work long hours- IPS to minimize eye strain & headache

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It might actually be easier on eyes for me as i use low brightness + black background (=> No light from black pixels ) and there is no constant backlight.
It does have high contrast, so white stuff on black background can be too much even at low brightness. So i also reduced gain for blue and green pixels.

Only burn in is a problem for my work.