If you have a Sony OLED that supports Android TV – we’ve not yet tried it on a Sony TV with the new Google TV interface, but imagine it’ll be similar – pick up the remote, press the Settings button and head to the main Settings menu.įrom there, go to Display & Sound, then choose Expert Panel Settings at the bottom. We’d suggest keeping it at the default ‘Low’. It can be set to ‘Off’, ‘Low’ and ‘High’. This feature automatically reduces the luminance (brightness) of static elements such as logos and subtitles. Adjust Low BrightnessĪs we mentioned previously, retention/burn-in occurs when the static elements are displayed over a long period. You can toggle it on or off, and usually it’s on by default. Screen Move shifts the screen a little at regular intervals to stop retention, and usually takes place when the TV has been left on for a long time. An OLED display automatically ‘cleanses’ itself pretty much every day it’s used and using Pixel Cleaning reduces the TV’s lifespan. It can be manually run, but we wouldn’t recommend doing so often. You should only use this if you see a visible problem. Pixel Cleaning checks and adjusts each individual pixel to prevent image retention by detecting any image degradation. Head to main Settings area by pressing the settings button on your remote.įrom there you’ll need to go to Support > OLED Screen Saver, where you’ll be presented with three options LG offers several features for managing image retention and burn-in. So, with burn-in and image retention explained, here are the steps for managing the issue on a TV. Use your TV normally and responsibly – i.e., as you would anyway – and image retention and burn-in won’t be a pressing issue. It takes many hours or even days of the TV being constantly on at peak brightness levels for burn-in to occur. Permanent burn-in requires extreme usage. The materials used in an OLED display experience wear over its lifespan, but these screens manage heat and brightness better than their Plasma counterparts did and OLED has a few more tricks up its sleeve, which we will get to. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode – the organic part being the most important part. Plasma TVs used a phosphor-based display technology that was susceptible to overheating, causing the phosphor particles to lose their brightness and cause burn-in that could be seen even when the TV was off. It’s an issue that afflicted Plasma TVs back when they were around, causing a ghostly effect on the screen. If your usage is more extreme, then that leads us on to burn-in.īurn-in is more problematic as it’s permanent, causing elements of the image to be appear faded on the screen. As long as you watch different types of content and don’t play the same game to an extreme, image retention won’t be a particular issue. The good thing about image retention is that it is temporary. Any of these static elements that sit on the screen for long periods of time can be retained. These elements can be the HUD (Heads-Up Display) on a first-person shooter, the scoreboard and logos during a football match or the horizontal/vertical news ticker that runs alongside news broadcasts. Image retention is where aspects of the image (static elements) are retained in the display for a period. Rather, they are the same issue, but to differing severities. There are several ways to manage this issue, and we’ll take you through the steps and explain the various features, starting with LG and Sony OLEDs.īut first, what’s the deal with burn-in and image retention? What is burn-in and image retention?īurn-in and image retention are used interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing. Any OLED screen is susceptible to burn-in/image retention, but that doesn’t mean that it’s an absolute certainty.
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