1800 hours in an endurance test: the OLED switch lasts

On By Garmin Philip

Self-luminous OLED screens offer great contrast and bright colors, but have a reputation that content can burn itself into the display over time. A tinkerer on YouTube put the new Nintendo Switch with OLED screen to the test and recorded the same image for 1,800 hours. Nothing is burned in.

The so-called burn-in problem can occur with OLED screens if static images are displayed on them for a very long time. Using OLED screens as PC monitors, for example, can be risky, but station logos on television or interface elements in video games are also considered a risk of burn-in Switch with OLED display know more precisely and has continuously displayed the same image on the Nintendo console since its release in October – a screenshot from “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”. After 1800 hours of endurance testing, it gives the all-clear: The extremely stressed display shows signs of fatigue, but there is no sign of a burn-in effect. If you consider that the average gamer uses the display less and, above all, not as one-sided, burn-in problems with the OLED switch should not easily occur.

Reference-www.krone.at