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I would say OLED, though I had an old tv from 2017 that showed significant burn in after 4-5 years of usage. Anything that was red had a permanent shadow like the Netflix logo and some tv channel logos. As someone with hearing loss I also always have subtitles on which causes shadows there too.

Now it's apparently much better nowadays, still happens with excessive usage and I actually ended up buying an LCD tv this time. I do miss the OLED razor sharp contrast though.

Ed i: I just checked my pixel 5 phone with an OLED screen, it does indeed also have burn in on the top row when I put a red or green picture full screen. I wouldn't notice it unless I really looked though.

LCD because price, although if I could get an mp3 player that used a monochrome oled display (the type that costs ~$1.50 USD) I would prefer it to one with a color LCD purely because it wouldn't take multiple seconds to change what's being displayed when it hits below - 40°. I hate how many device manufactures actively forget the cold exists.

Definitely! OLED is unusable for me because it has really bad PWM flickering. The majority of people can't see the screen flashing on and off like a strobe light, but many of us have eyes that do see the flashing, and it's awful.

I can't wait until a new display technology gets popular that doesn't use Pulse Width Modulation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=268IK08pdAQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JGruhqs16lA

I miss my plasma tv.

The price difference does not make it matter or make me care. Once OLED gets cheap enough to be priced similar to LCD, my opinion will definitely change to OLED being much better.

I've used OLED on phones (my current, free because cracked screen) and like the idea* but considering I have a super-budget desktop (old stuff, unlikely to upgrade) and keeping it mostly to free/old content I'll stick to whatever low-tier 1080p displays are already in my home.

Maybe OLED multi-touch if it wasn't an upsell and niche market, so realistically when you add in burn-in fear it's either I get some second-hand laptop/tablet that has it (with a bad/no battery) or some new manufacturing tech solves it (either way, probably not for me in the next 10 years).

It might make more sense for VR immersion, though again between cost and specs (cost again) plus whatever lock-in nonsense (which I already saw of the oculus stuff with a family member who likely won't ever unlock dev mode) probably not for me.

* particularly for the contrast ratio (off pixels), though unless you're into horror stuff this seems like a bit of a gimmick (even space content is not a guaranteed fit). It's either that or making my own OLED edits of movies, which I find unlikely to work well via a blind edit (as I don't expect a script to be perfect).