Games on an OLED screen

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My TV Is old as fuck and is starting to die on me, so getting a new one.
Now i'm wondering, how do (older) games look like or preform on a OLED screen? There is suprisingly little info on it.
Can someone say the ups and downs on this?
 
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One con is burn-in. The colors are vivid and vibrant, but after long-term use, you'll probably experience a bit of burn-in. I did look around a bit for you and found that it's getting a little better as technology advances.
I'd just grab a TCL LED 4K screen. Cheap and looks just fine.
 
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Rusty Crab said:
Aren't those still preposterously expensive?
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I can get a good deal on black friday(and where I live it's not as insane as in the US)

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One con is burn-in. The colors are vivid and vibrant, but after long-term use, you'll probably experience a bit of burn-in. I did look around a bit for you and found that it's getting a little better as technology advances.
I'd just grab a TCL LED 4K screen. Cheap and looks just fine.
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The model I got my eye on does not really have that problem any more then the original ones.
Just got to tell everyone living here not to leave it on the home screen/turn it off when not in use.
 
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Raiken said:
The model I got my eye on does not really have that problem any more then the original ones.
Just got to tell everyone living here not to leave it on the home screen/turn it off when not in use.
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problem with gaming is icons and menus, if you play certain games for a very long time you will get burn in, doesnt matter what the manufacturer says. If you play different games thats not gonna be an issue though. Or just say fuck it, burn in wont become bad enough to really distract you in the maybe 5 years youll use it anyways, and unless you look for it with test patterns and cry in the corner afterwards it doesnt really matter.
 
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NigKid said:
problem with gaming is icons and menus, if you play certain games for a very long time you will get burn in, doesnt matter what the manufacturer says. If you play different games thats not gonna be an issue though
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No problem there, it's not like I play one of those text based games where the entire game is nothing BUT the hud. Then again, my wife got me the great ace attorney....
Most games don't even grab me enough to play hundreds of hours of them.
 
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OLED is 120hz. It's therefore a nice multiple: 2x 60hz (most old games) and 5x 24hz (film content).

Changing frame rate works well with even multiples, not so well without. That's why 60hz LCDs and look like shit for film. There's a lot of info out there (search Youtube) praising the OLEDs of Panasonic and Sony, for reasons I think make sense. At some level it's not a matter of the quality of the panel (all of them are made by LG) and the quality of post processing, which Panasonic and Sony have a lot invested in from their former Plasma TV and camera businesses.

That said, if you don't care about 4k resolution used Plasma is still a pretty good deal. I found a 65" ZT60 (best one ever made) for $500 bucks a few months back.
 
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OLED is 120hz. It's therefore a nice multiple: 2x 60hz (most old games) and 5x 24hz (film content).

Changing frame rate works well with even multiples, not so well without. That's why 60hz LCDs and look like shit for film. There's a lot of info out there (search Youtube) praising the OLEDs of Panasonic and Sony, for reasons I think make sense. At some level it's not a matter of the quality of the panel (all of them are made by LG) and the quality of post processing, which Panasonic and Sony have a lot invested in from their former Plasma TV and camera businesses.

That said, if you don't care about 4k resolution used Plasma is still a pretty good deal. I found a 65" ZT60 (best one ever made) for $500 bucks a few months back.
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OLED by default definitely does not seem to be 120 hz. Many phones use OLED panels that are capped at 60, for example, and most tvs released as oled have been 60 hz. 4k monitors for a long time have been this way as well.
 
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Why not get a large OLED for modern games and then get a cheap sub-$100 ~20 inch RCA LED TV from Walmart for old games (besides light gun games that need a CRT, of course)? Old games look better on smaller screens anyway.

I know some sources claim that there's an input lag of at least a tenth of a second when you play old games on LED TVs through composite and I don't really have any way to confirm this for myself but I've played a model 2 Genesis and a Dreamcast on one of those small Walmart RCA TVs for the past three years and the lag hasn't been noticeable enough to bother me.
 
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Why not get a large OLED for modern games and then get a cheap sub-$100 ~20 inch RCA LED TV from Walmart for old games (besides light gun games that need a CRT, of course)? Old games look better on smaller screens anyway.

I know some sources claim that there's an input lag of at least a tenth of a second when you play old games on LED TVs through composite and I don't really have any way to confirm this for myself but I've played a model 2 Genesis and a Dreamcast on one of those small Walmart RCA TVs for the past three years and the lag hasn't been noticeable enough to bother me.
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You could potentially get a 30 inch TV for that price if you look hard enough.
 
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OLED by default definitely does not seem to be 120 hz. Many phones use OLED panels that are capped at 60, for example, and most tvs released as oled have been 60 hz. 4k monitors for a long time have been this way as well.
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LG started sending firmware updates a month ago to enable 120hz for last year's panels.
 
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