TVs and monitors · LG
Owners keep the LG 45 for the OLED picture and the sheer desk space, and the ones with thousands of hours on it say burn-in has not been the problem they feared.
Owners with the most hours on the panel, including one past ten thousand hours of screen time and another near four thousand, say they have no burn-in after static app windows, game interfaces and long work days, with nothing done beyond the built-in pixel clean and pixel shift features.
Owners are divided on the size and shape. Some settled on 45 inches as the right middle ground after finding a 48 too big and a 34 ultrawide too small, while others find the curve too strong, want a flat panel, or wish the resolution were higher for the size.
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What lasts is the picture. Black levels and the OLED image are the things owners bring up without prompting, and several who came from IPS or from a 34-inch ultrawide describe the extra real estate as the reason they will not go back to a smaller screen. The 5K2K version's matte coating gets specific credit for killing glare from office windows without hurting clarity, and it is easier to keep clean than the glossy panel some owners came from, which streaked with every wipe.
The adjustment is the physical footprint. Owners keep trading between this, a 34-inch ultrawide and a 48-inch panel, trying to find the one that fits their desk and their eyes, and a few have bounced back and forth more than once. The curve is the sticking point for the people who leave. A small number of owners also dislike the matte coating enough to talk about removing it, though there are too few of those accounts to call it a trend.
Among the owners who have logged serious hours, the panel is holding up. The recurring account is thousands of hours of desktop work, browsing and games with static interfaces, no special precautions, and no visible burn-in. Their routine is simple: let the pixel clean cycle run, with one owner running it at least once a day and another noting the default interval is more frequent than it needs to be.
The long-term picture is still thin, and it is not one-sided. Only a handful of accounts speak to wear over years, and one owner who uses the PC for eight to eighteen hours a day says they did get burn-in on an LG 45. That is one voice against several who report none, but it is enough to say the outcome depends on use, and that this page cannot yet promise how the panel looks at year four or five.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
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