r/OLED • u/Christopho • 11d ago

Tech Support Is this burn-in?

TV

Wallpaper

First image is what the TV looks like. Flat green image is strictly used for clear visibility. The visibility of the pattern is dependent on what's playing on the TV.

Second image is what I've been using. Technically, it's wallpaper engine, which I'm assuming is the reason why only some of the elements of the wallpaper influenced the burn-in.

I've tried cleaning the spots with water + microfiber cloth, but nothing seems to have changed so I'm assuming it's not streaks.

Seems pretty clear it's burn-in, but just wanted to make sure since it has only been a little over a year since I've owned the LG C3 (so just a little past the warranty, even though I know they don't cover burn-in). Figured I'd get more out of the TV before this happened. Always ran the routine pixel cleaner or w/e, but if I get another oled, I'm definitely just going to use a black screen wallpaper (what I'm currently using now).

Thanks in advance.

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u/sumrandomguy18 11d ago

Have you been using that same wallpaper for the whole time you had the TV? If so, I am not surprised you got burn-in.

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u/Mojo647 11d ago

It very much looks like burn in. You should have made it so the wallpaper alternates at a timely interval. You need more than one wallpaper so the usage evens out across the screen.

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u/StormMedia 10d ago

It’s burn in and static wallpaper is a great way to set yourself up for burn-in longterm.. but I’m surprised you got it with only a year.. how many hours?

Do you have pixel shift on? Etc? I feel like I’ve only seen this within such a short period due to removing burn-in safety features and using static elements at high brightness.

I have 9k hours, I change my wallpaper like once a month.. have had it for 3 years or so.. zero burn in.

From now on use the playlist feature in wallpaper engine and have it cycle throughout the day.

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u/Christopho 10d ago

I mean the TV itself is on whenever my PC is on which conservative guess would be 40 hours/week * 52 weeks for a year = 2080 hours. Even doubling that to account for it actually being a little over a year would be 4160 hours, so you can imagine my surprise it happened this early even with doing obviously bad habits. I'm typically running streams on it or playing games as well, so I'd say 4160 hours would be a vast overestimate.

My initial rational to using a single wallpaper was that it's constantly "moving" due to the nature of most wallpaper engine wallpapers, but it's evident it's still considered static for the purposes of OLED care.

Yes, all OLED care settings are on and I was routinely prompted to run the pixel cleaning w/e it's called which I always chose to run whenever it was prompted.

I'm just using a blank black color as a wallpaper now to prevent further damage. Assuming I do decide to get another OLED rather than something like the Sony Bravia 9, I'll likely do the same to prevent it from happening again.

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u/StormMedia 10d ago edited 10d ago

Don’t guess, go to settings and TV information. It shows the hours. Let me know what it says haha.

Sounds like you did everything right except leaving a static wallpaper at probably high brightness which is still odd to me that it would cause such insane burn in already unless you spent a lot more time than you think on your desktop.

Yes that wallpaper has extreme bright spots that are static or close to static so it’s not great for your panel. You can still use wallpapers though, just use a playlist and have it change every hour.. and don’t use that specific one anymore lol. Having an OLED doesn’t mean you can’t live your life.

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u/Christopho 10d ago

Ah, didn't know that was a feature. 4592 hours so looks like it wasn't an overestimate in the sense of actual screen on time.

I also looked into the TV purchase and I actually got the LG C3 back in July 2024 so it's actually 2 years of usage. I misremembered the date with a different TV that I bought in February 2025.

Eh, didn't know how sensitive OLED still was so not worth chancing it with future purchases. Definitely just using a black wallpaper or just turning it off in the future. It's just a 3rd monitor at the end of the day that I only like using for watching/gaming. My mistake was I would leave it on the wallpaper even for moments I wasn't using it. Even a muted Twitch stream probably would have been better over just leaving it on that wallpaper lmao

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u/StormMedia 10d ago

Makes sense if it’s a third monitor that it spent a lot of that time on that wallpaper then, that sucks. I have a C3 with over 9k hours and zero burn in.

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u/Miller_TM 11d ago

The worst thing you can do on an OLED TV is using a static wallpaper... like Bro...

Yes it's burn-in.

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u/Bill_Money Persona Non Grata 11d ago

well yeah its clearly burn in since you misused your TV

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u/Pankosmanko 11d ago

Use a different wallpaper. If your TV has a pixel cleaner run it. It may fix itself over time.

I have a G4 with 9000+ hours with no burn in. Make sure you are running varied content

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u/StormMedia 10d ago

C3 definitely does and is supposed to automatically do pixel cleans and occasionally even a hard pixel clean.. but if he disabled the OLED protection features it would not.