Austin wrote:

My BV Eclipse 65” has screen burn in the center. It’s a grey green cloud in the center and has an odd bar across the bottom. Since it’s over three years old now, I assume it’s not covered under any type of warranty. I don’t have any dealers around me and B&O support has been very slow to get me any answers. 

Has anyone had to replace the LG OLED panel on a 65” eclipse? Do you know what the cost is? I’m also thinking about waiting to see if you will be able to upgrade to the CX panels on V2.

It should be possible to get/buy a replacement Eclipse panel as someone on this board had his swapped out earlier this year. So there are spares. My worry is, the spare won't be cheap. But buying a replacement panel would certainly be worth it if you can then use your Eclipse v1 to update to the forthcoming v2, whenever this eventually arrives. Your Eclipse v1 will still be worth reasonable cash and certainly more than any panel replacement.

Can't you call any US dealer and ask them to order a replacement panel?

Hi Austin. This is good to know if problems beyond the panel occur. Alternative to LG-TV-65" OLED C7.

seethroughyou wrote:

Screen burn on a 3 year old TV. Really? That is shocking. Heard that burn in was rare and only after a couple of decades of use.

- burn in
- getting dimmer
- short life span
- (with some displays) unnatural color reproduction
- ...

I don't want any OLED device in my home due to that.

So it was a very good decision from B&O to use a LCD on the new HALO remote and not an OLED as on the Beoremote 1.

TWG wrote:

seethroughyou wrote:

Screen burn on a 3 year old TV. Really? That is shocking. Heard that burn in was rare and only after a couple of decades of use.

No matter what all the marketing and so called "reviews" tell you: It's what you have to live with when using OLED:

- burn in
- getting dimmer
- short life span
- (with some displays) unnatural color reproduction
- ...

I don't want any OLED device in my home due to that.

So it was a very good decision from B&O to use a LCD on the new HALO remote and not an OLED as on the Beoremote 1.

 

OLED do not have have a short life span, only shorter compared to LCD. Something will break long before.

Burn in is as much an issue, maybe a bit less than on Plasma. If you use it with CNN 24/7 there is 100% guarantee that you will get burn in.

But LCD is IMO so terrible that I have always taken the chance both with Plasma and now OLED, and never had a Problem.

I even use the 48" CX as a PC monitor now.

It really depends on your viewing habits 

Just search for OLED burn in, lifetime etc.

Mainly mobile phones and watches with OLED displays and too many suffering from burn in problems.

And as you already read: The state of the art OLED display panel from the Eclipse suffers, too from burn in.

Based on my personal experience with multiple OLED display devices (phones and watches over the years) the OLED-Display was the first thing that got dimmer and died... rendered a full working device completely obsolete. Spare parts? What's that? ;-)

Did you have a look to a current LCDs? In the TV area they are a beauty to watch nowadays and I would always prefer LCD over OLED. There's a reason that in the professional field displays, control monitors etc. are based on LCD or upcoming micro-LED display technology.

I would bet: In 10years you can pick up an old Beo 4 or an old Beoremote 1 and chances are high that only the Beo 4 will still be usable while the Beoremote 1 display could have already died.

OLED is also a technology that is going away when MicroLED becomes more readily available. It has all the pros of regular LCDs (almost no burn in on high quality panels and better color accuracy) and better light quality and longevity than OLED. But we are not there yet. OLED looks amazing due to its strong contrast but suffers from the burn in issues and burn out of organic material as well as burn in of material on screen. Most OLED panels run a jumping pixel program to mitigate it, just like plasma panels. And they also turn on when in standby to "massage" the pixels in black so that the burn ins are less noticeable. On my iPhone XS Max I clearly see the keyboard and such when viewing certain colors, but it is very rare to see - but it is there.

I took a photo of what's happening. This is just an example. The entire bed is supposed to be yellow. It's very green in the center. There's a large patch that makes any warm tones really green or gray. I think the board overheated in the center and damaged the panel.

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That is not burn in,

But still very bad, it would have been on warrenty.

Very unluckly