Oh boy, always on oled displays are so in now.
They might mean down to 1hz like some smart phones do, to save battery.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Feel the burn-in
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Probably not as bad as you might think:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEgQrigiLc
but yeah not sure how much worse it would be if always on…
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a lighter band at the top of the screen on my phone, corresponding to the darker header area in the RedReader app for Reddit. Just from using that app every day. Though that seems to be kinda reverse burn-in, in that the rest of the screen became darker since I use the light colorscheme.
On the desktop, the taskbar alone would definitely burn in with my usage pattern. And probably also the tabs and the status bar in the editor.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s slower than a car blinker.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
1 Hz is 1 fps. Hertz = cycles per second
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I know what hertz is, I’m en electrotechnician. The display’s refresh rate is measured in hertz, and has to be at least 40 Hz or you suffer from headaches and some from photosensitive epilepsy. But the image (frames per second) does not have to change that often. For example, movies are 24fps but 35mm film projectors are 72 Hz: they flash each frame 3x before advancing because 24 Hz is seizure-inducing but using a unique picture for each refresh (72 fps) is expensive.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s some pretty confidently incorrect posting. Most gaming displays these days have some flavor of adaptive sync available that adjusts the refresh rate to the content being displayed, and even before that there were film modes that set the refresh rate to the ~24 fps(or a multiple if it) that film content is at to avoid stuttering/tearing.
This is likely the bottom of the adaptive sync window and will only be used if the machine is idle
eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You may be an electro technician but you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about so it’s pretty irrelevant to through around credentials.
Here’s a video of an OLED TV updating in slow motion. The pixels are on in between updates so it really doesn’t matter how fast it’s updating it’s not going to cause headaches or any of the problems that we used to associate with strobing style displays. m.youtube.com/watch?v=54E3uUEryZM
eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No, I meant what I said. The article says “hz” and so do other phone manufacturers offering the same feature. It may be marketing wank or technically incorrect but that’s what it’s referred to as.
But, hz of a monitor is not like a car blinker or CRT televisions where it’s off in between the updates. It is on in between the updates, it’s just not the new image. In which case it doesn’t matter how slow your performing the updates because the pixels are just on with a static picture in between the updates.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
hz of a monitor is not like a car blinker or CRT televisions where it’s off in between the updates. It is on in between the updates
Yes, it is on OLED, unless they’ve added active storage like TFT LCDs. In which case, that’s cool technology they’ve invented.
2910000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah yeah, I should have read the rest of the article. I didn’t know about that feature though, that’s cool