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> Well, an OLED will be pretty much dead after six years anyways.

How much TV are you people watching such that this statement becomes even remotely accurate? My 2017 LG OLED display says it has 6400 power-on hours and it looks as good as new.

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The average American watches five hours of television every day, or just shy of 11,000 hours over six years.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/television/tv-audiences-and-...

Lots of people leave their television sets on for almost the entire day, even when not watching. Never understood that.

Gives a feeling of having other people around and staves off loneliness.

SO does that. She'll put the show on pause, go do shopping, come back and resume. All while leaving the TV on.

I've tried to get her to change oh so many times, all in vain...

No rational explanation either. Just... that's how she rolls I guess.

enable energy savings and turn off the tv after 2 hours. problem solved! Most tv's show a popup when they are about to shut off because of power savings, and with a button on the remote you can reset the timer.

This is extremely passive aggressive, tell me you’re single without telling me you’re single. People’s preferences being different than yours is not a technical problem to be worked around.

I’m not the one complaining here. My wife turns off everything before she leaves the place. Even if its just a quick walk with the dog :)

I had a girlfriend who would flush the toilet before using it. She said "it's cleaner this way". I tried to get her to stop, but it was a futile effort.

Before and after, I'd hope. :)

That doesn't kill LG OLEDs thought, that results in a nearly black screensaver (just a small slow "firework" effect). Wastes a touch more energy than turning the tv into sleep mode (since nothing actually turns off anymore), but hard to believe that would shorten life much.

That explains a few things.

Still, the objective tests from RTINGS seem to suggest that it's the LCD sets that look all fucked up after a few years, while almost all the OLED ones look perfect. And they OLED sets aren't showing a downtrend in overall brightness over time.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/longevity-results-after-10-m...

That's insane to me. I can't stand watching TV. I feel my life being sucked away.

That actuality sounds pretty standard. That would be from 5pm-10pm. Evening news, game shows, then like two 1 hour long shows and it’s already been five hours.

Try sitting down.

Many people leave the TV running in the background while they do other things, like eat dinner.

For the lifespan of the screen, it doesn't matter if anyone actually directs their eyes at it.

Yeah, that's a wild claim to me too. My 2018 LG C8 has about 5800 hours on it and it is indistinguishable from new. (Though I've never run it at max brightness because it would be blinding.)

Confusingly, the contrast control has a higher effect on image brightness (in the ordinary English language use) than the brightness control does.

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