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An expensive TV is a poor investment, and people spend FAR too much on them
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MK14:

--- Quote from: Bassman59 on February 06, 2022, 11:04:58 pm ---If you traveled through airports back when they used CRTs for the departure/arrival status displays, you saw a lot of burned-in images.

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Also, railway ?? stations ??, arcade machines (especially when switched off), and other things. Usually home TVs were fine, because of the varying TV pictures.
EDIT: Changed my mind. Not sure, so put ??, where applicable.
Red Squirrel:
I find the best bang for the buck with TVs is to buy a high end one, but that is a few years behind in tech.  Never buy whatever tech just came out, you will over pay.  I guess that goes for most things, but especially TVs.

My current TV is actually a HD TV I bought like 10 years ago, I had paid like 1k for it at the time, it was a 3k TV that was on sale by a lot.  So for the time it was a good deal.   One key with expensive purchases is to make sure they remain useful for as long as possible.  I just don't get people that buy iphones every year.  Paying over a grand for a phone only to ditch it a year or two later.  Seems so financially wasteful to me. 

I am kind of eyeing 8K TVs, mostly to use as a monitor, since that would be a crazy amount of screen real estate, but if I do that I'll wait at least a couple more years to see if they come down in price.   I have two 4k monitors right now but the issue is they have burn in already after only a few years.  I did not do my research enough when buying them.  I did not realize burn in was still a thing.  When I DO upgrade I will want to make sure I get a tech that does not have burn in.
coppice:

--- Quote from: Bassman59 on February 06, 2022, 11:04:58 pm ---If you traveled through airports back when they used CRTs for the departure/arrival status displays, you saw a lot of burned-in images.

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If you travelled through transport interchanges during the plasma era you saw even worse burned-in images. The Windows BSOD page was deeply burned into almost every one.
BrianHG:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 06, 2022, 02:47:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: BrianHG on February 06, 2022, 12:49:33 pm ---Warning, QD-OLED has just hit the market.

Unlike OLED, true pure colors (no stupid white pixels to boost OLED's weak brightness), 3 year no-burn in guarantee, brighter overall white level and also already available in desktop PC monitors.

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Adding the white subpixel isn’t stupid, it’s smart. Any time you have all three RGB subpixels lit simultaneously, the “common” brightness level is just white. (E.g. if the RGB levels are 230/175/60, then you can subtract 60 from all of them and instead run the white subpixel at the equivalent brightness of 60/60/60, sparing the blue subpixel some wear.)

Mind you that like plasma, OLED really isn’t intended for high ambient light environments; LCD is better for that. But in ordinary household light levels they’re totally fine.

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LOL... Right... OK....
Vgkid:
I checked the date of manufacture for our 46in panasonic 1080p plasma, 2010.
It was older than I thought, i was thinking 2012ish.
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