Burn-in, it's the final frontier for OLED technology. Fix that, and we can all ditch our LCD panels, right? Well, according to one year-long test, we're tantalisingly close to that outcome, but not quite there.
Monitors Unboxed has posted its one-year follow up of the MSI MPG 321URX, the very same model we tested last summer. It's been intentionally using the display in the worst possible way for an OLED, namely as a desktop production screen for work and video editing and absolutely no gaming at all.
Roughly, that's about eight hours a day on the Windows desktop with worst case scenario settings including Windows Light mode, not auto-hiding the task bar and so on.
In fact, Monitors Unboxed also only allowed the MSI MPG 321URX's pixel cleaning and compensation cycles to run every eight hours instead of the recommended every four.
All told, Monitor Unbox estimates something in the region of 2,700 to 3,000 hours racked up. The result? A very slight line down the middle of the display that's a consequence of routinely running two main application windows side-by-side, plus a touch of burn in where the taskbar resides.