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oh

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hi I'm Linus Sebastian and you may

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remember me professing my love for LG's OLED displays in YouTube videos like

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every other monitor is dead to me and my

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endgame gaming TV well now that I've

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been daily driving one for the past few months I'm going to show you everything

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wrong with it and hopefully how to fix

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it what about

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thanks Jamie but you know I would never

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when I reviewed the 48 inch LG C10 earlier this year I loved it so much

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that as soon as David got his own and returned mine I dumped my old monitor

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setup and put it in my office and all of

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the great stuff I said about it still holds up it's high refresh rate and

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unbeatable pixel response times make it among the best gaming displays on the

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market and it's Inky blacks and great color performance make it super

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comfortable to use for everything else be it movies spreadsheets the wipes

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that is why I'm still gonna have an affiliate link to it below but before

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you click on that this burn-in is a result of snapping my

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Windows into the four corners of my display a pretty common thing to do on

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such a large Monitor and Wendell from level one Tex who has been daily driving

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one of these for longer than me has also hit some snags

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it is amazing but what's not amazing is that I'm starting to see signs of burn

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in it's unsettling it's just enough to be

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unsettling yeah mine too

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but LG thought of that and maybe just

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maybe we can fix this with the feature that's built into every OLED display

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that I'm aware of but LG calls pixel Refresher

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start now hopefully that works I guess

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we'll find out soon enough but while it's running let's talk about

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burning a little more because there's a lot of mixed messages out there

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including from us on the one hand you've got manufacturers like LG saying it's

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not a problem and on the other hand you've got Tech experts like Wendell

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saying I would say that with heavy use you know six eight ten hours a day you

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can only count on these things lasting about a year maybe two what's the truth

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as usual it's somewhere in between but

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to understand why we need a bit of background to start with the term

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burn-in is a relic of the CRT days when

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your monitor was as big as a microwave and your TV was the size of an oven

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it's also a total mischaracterization of the problem because burn-in refers to

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ghost images that were quite literally burned into the luminescent phosphor

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coating on the back of the glass of those older style displays here's an

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example that is so extreme that the DMV stopped having to even turn the TV on

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anymore but we continue to use this term because even though the mechanisms are

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different the behavior of modern displays can be very similar so whether

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you're talking about a CRT LCD plasma or

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an OLED if you display static or

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non-moving images for extended periods of time you might eventually see them as

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ghosts that haunt your other content

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so this type of image retention can

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affect nearly all direct view modern displays the only difference is How

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likely you are to encounter it for LCDs

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which make up the majority of TVs and monitors today we could more accurately

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describe this phenomenon as image retention because it's typically caused

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by the liquid crystals losing their ability to easily return to a relaxed

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State we don't talk about it much though because it's pretty uncommon unlike

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lttstore.com we talk about that all the time look at this great desk PAD as for

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oleds each pixel of an OLED display actually each RGB subpixel is an

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individual light source and like LCDs

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they're controlled by thin film transistors that can get stuck on which

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is why the retention on my screen appears as a bright spot rather than a

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dark spot the thing is that this can happen way sooner than on an LCD since

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Illuminating a subpixel takes More Voltage and that's not all the O and

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OLED means that each subpixel is organic and from the moment it turns on it is

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deteriorating and the brighter each one

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of those little candles burns the faster it will dim

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now obviously this gradual weakening isn't going to be too noticeable if

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every pixel gets used exactly the same but How likely is that to happen in the

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real world so to combat this educated OLED users can employ a number of tricks

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to extend their lifespan I've been running this monitor super

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conservatively my OLED brightness has only been around 60. I left on the uh

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you know the logo compensation thing where it tries to detect a logo or you

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know like the start menu and it's like oh let me move that around a little bit those are some good tips lowering the

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brightness overall means that each pixel isn't blasting out as much light wearing

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itself out logo compensation tries to surgically dim static elements on the

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screen like sports score bugs or news channel logos and Screen shift or pixel

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shift takes the whole on-screen image and tries to kind of move it around by a

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few pixels every so often in hopes of at least softening the transitions between

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the more burned out pixels and the less burned at once but as you saw when we

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began this video even a few months of use was enough for me to overcome all of

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those protections my brightness by the way was usually set to 80 and I also

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have pixel shift and Logo compensation enabled let's take a look at our results

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shall we

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wow okay hold on

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yes yes a lot better but this kind of thing

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doesn't work forever the pixel refresh

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function of the display does help when you turn it off it's supposed to

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automatically do that on its own but I think it's kind of diminishing returns

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at this point text in in certain areas are not quite as sharp as it used to be

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and uh I've got this sort of weird red splotch in the middle of the screen

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because you know so much stuff is going on in the middle of the screen great

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and even if pixel refresher works

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perfectly for you there are some daily use problems with these TVs that we

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should have caught in our review one inconvenience is that they don't handle

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Auto Wake from sleep the way that a monitor does so you'll have to manually

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turn it on every time you sit down at your computer but that one's pretty

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minor compared to the auto dimming issues that Barnacles has been

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struggling with now I understand why LG is doing this

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remember the whole burn-in thing but when you've got three displays all side

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by side by side something as simple as dragging a window across a border can

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cause one or more of the TVs to suddenly

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change their brightness from I think I can see it to eye searing

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now I on the other hand am only running one 48 inch display and I only have to

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do my little brightness dance when I'm reading or editing a large document for

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an extended period of time so given that burn-in is a much larger concern for me

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I'm content to leave the auto dimming alone but if you absolutely cannot

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tolerate it there does appear to be a fix and there it is

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that's right we've got it this is the LG

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service technician remote that can supposedly access menus that are hidden

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using the regular consumer one allploof said was play with it

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shall we okay well I mean key okay you

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can do just regular stuff like change in input it's a p-check

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oh crap well now what man how much do I

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miss having buttons like this instead of just having an input button that you

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have to click a bunch of times just HDMI

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too HDMI one dedicated buttons

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I kind of just want this remote to just be this remote

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okay can I UNP check it

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sound check oh picture check picture check and sound check that's what it is

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man there's so many buttons on here what's P only

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LG service remote password Here We Go

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voice according to Reddit it's a zero four one three what's so special about

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that date LG and look how smart this is see the IR emitter is uh angled such

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that it'll just work if you're just like holding it like this and looking at it

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that's awesome menu

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oh hello this all looks like the regular

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menu whoa hi in tart whoa and then we want

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OLED TPC enable off

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wow hi

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oh look at that HDR on off just like that I guess normal

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is auto man this is the kind of thing you could really get into the weeds

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tuning and by the way it would void the heck out of your warranty so if you ever

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did need to get any kind of servicing done or even update the firmware on your

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TV it is strongly recommended that you return all of the service menu options

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to normal and then do it otherwise I

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take no responsibility for your stuff breaking all right

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and we're back

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is this is this brighter than before

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this looks terrible just a sec Houston we definitely have a problem over in

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Vivid mode and what I wonder if that's why it looks like crap this still

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doesn't look quite right it's horrible

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and then the second I change this to HDR

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I bet it's fixed yep and perfect now

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I am going to plug it into my laptop

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real quick come on

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still looks like absolute dog crap it's doing something to the incoming signal I

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have no idea what we're gonna put this all back to default exit okay now we are

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going to do a factory reset I think I found it I think I found it I think it

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was just super resolution see I thought that was off but I wonder if it's just

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like a stupid thing where it was turned on then turned off because we are

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in SDR right now and this looks fine

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all right good it's back to normal factory reset and then

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changing settings even though the changing them back doesn't break it

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again seems fine we need to move on because none of what we've talked about

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so far supports LG's position that burn

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in is not a problem let's talk about that the thing is the

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oleds on my desks are not the only ones in my life and the 77 inch G10 in my

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living room has actually been there for about as long as Wendell has been daily

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driving his C10 and in spite of being used daily for not just movies but also

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games which are notorious for burning in static elements like speedometers life

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bars you get the point it shows no signs

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of burn-in whatsoever and you'll actually find plenty of similar

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testimonials from users online so it's

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clear that oleds absolutely can live long healthy lives doing what they do

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best absolutely crushing other Technologies with their image quality

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they just clearly require a level of TLC

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that other display Technologies do not which means as much as I agree with

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Wendell I love OLED oh my goodness this

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is like living in the future with this kind of display technology G back to you

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Steve

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because it's that's just my random thoughts back to

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you Linus I'm gonna have to be more careful who I invite to be a guest on

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the channel I'm also gonna have to be more careful about my display

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recommendations going forward because even though by the way the service menu

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thing does appear to have worked these TVs are clearly best suited for

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customers with more typical home theater use cases and they are only suitable as

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monitors for deep pocketed enthusiasts who are willing to accept either the

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downsides like the auto dimming or the cost of replacing them ever so often

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results of the pixel refresher I am pleased with the results of the auto

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dimming thing I'm done with you

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uh by the way if you enjoyed this video maybe check out our video where we fixed

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a dead CPU