TVs and monitors · LG
Owners keep the LG C2 for picture quality that still looks new years in, running nightly pixel refreshers and weekly cleanings as routine upkeep rather than a chore that bothers them.
Picture quality draws clear praise, with owners saying the panel still looks as good as the day they bought it even after years of daily use, including long stretches as a work monitor.
Burn-in risk on OLED overall is where owners are divided: some report thousands of hours with zero burn-in and call the fear overblown, while others describe visible burn-in on static UI elements and say it is a real, cumulative risk of the technology.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Once the novelty wears off, most owners settle into a light maintenance routine: running the built-in pixel-refresh cycle for a few minutes a week, occasionally dimming or auto-hiding a taskbar, and wiping the screen down with a microfiber cloth every few weeks. People who do this report the picture holding up essentially unchanged for years, some logging four years and 8,000-plus hours of mixed work and gaming use with no visible wear.
Cleaning turns out to be less of an issue than owners expected going in: several say they barely clean it at all and it still looks new, crediting soft microfiber over anything harsher. The panel's contrast and black levels, the thing that sold people initially, keep delivering in side-by-side comparisons against LCD and IPS screens even after years of ownership, which is part of why owners who kept the set tend to say they would not go back.
Owners who logged serious hours, in the thousands, some past 8,000 and even 14,000 on a related LG panel, report the picture unchanged with no burn-in, including people who say they ran the set hard with safety settings off from day one. That reliability is credited by some to routine care (pixel refresh cycles, varying content, avoiding parked static bright elements) and by others to simply not worrying about it.
Set against that, other owners describe visible, permanent burn-in on static elements like app logos or UI overlays after not that much use, and argue the risk is cumulative and real even if it takes longer to show up than it used to. The accounts here split roughly along how the owner used the set and how much preventive care they put in, so the honest read is that outcomes vary by use case rather than pointing to one universal failure mode.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
8 more subjects came up from fewer than 4 owners each, which is not enough for a fair reading. To see how it stacks up, compare it with another machine.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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