Hardware

Overall, we think this is a relatively positive update on the burn-in front after 9 months of heavy static content usage, or around 2,000 to 2,300 hours of total use. As we saw in the previous update, there are visible signs of burn-in on our panel, but the level of degradation between 6 months and 9 months has been relatively minimal.

As things stand, burn-in is not having a significant impact on our daily usage of this monitor, and it's close to, though not quite, a non-issue. We can spot the burn-in in some edge case applications with large uniform areas of dark grey, but it's pretty uncommon and rarely distracting. We think that's a pretty good result given we're stressing the crap out of this display, using it in absolutely the worst-case realistic scenario you could think of, and our usage patterns equate to displaying eight hours of virtually static content every single day.

It's too bad it's somewhat difficult to identify the burn-in impact via screenshots. IMO it's something that you need to experience during usage to evaluate. The review is also not here or there. Burn-in is noticeable, but seems to be not that big of an issue.

Still, what will burn-in be like after 2-3 years if we are already seeing issues after 6 to 9 months (albeit under worst case scenario type usage).