{"id":127685,"date":"2022-08-30T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-136859"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:45:00","slug":"video-youtubers-switch-oled-screen-still-standing-after-7000-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/video-youtubers-switch-oled-screen-still-standing-after-7000-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: YouTuber&#8217;s Switch OLED Screen Still Standing After 7,000 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c313c2986dcaa\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c313c2986dcaa\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"P1044591\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c313c2986dcaa\/p1044591.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c313c2986dcaa\/p1044591.900x.jpg\" alt=\"P1044591\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life \/ Damien McFerran<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Way back in March of this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/video-youtubers-ultimate-switch-oled-test-finally-delivers-burn-in-after-3600-hours\">we reported on one YouTuber&#8217;s quest<\/a> to test the limits of the Switch OLED&#8217;s screen as he left the console running for 3,600 hours. Well, we are pleased to say that <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bobwulff.com\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Wulff<\/a>&#8216;s experiment over on his YouTube channel, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCr613nJgA50o8DUUT00qHvw\" rel=\"noopener\">Wulff Den<\/a>, has continued, with the console now racking up an astonishing 7,000 hours of continuous screen time.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating the effects of such a display marathon in <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/Ft-NnejVDk4\">a new YouTube Short<\/a>, Wulff has shown us that while the burn-in from his last update remains in place, the console is far from giving up yet. In fact, the pixel shadow has been such a small issue that it is only visible on very light or very dark screens.<\/p>\n<p>Wulff&#8217;s Switch OLED has remained on the same image of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a> shrine for around 10 months now, with the pixel burn-in only happening in areas which display extremely bright lights.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I uploaded a short video update on that OLED Burn in test. We\u2019re at 7,000 hours now<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6Ofhqz9Lr\">https:\/\/t.co\/w6Ofhqz9Lr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9o3pgNAyvG\">pic.twitter.com\/9o3pgNAyvG<\/a><\/span>\u2014 WULFF DEN (@TheWulffDen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWulffDen\/status\/1564321583484882944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>At his last update of 3,600 hours, Wulff predicted that the console would only have around 1,800 hours left before the pixel burn-in became &#8216;game-breaking&#8217;, and yet today shows this end-of-life timeframe expanded by almost double the original estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Those determined to ruin their Switch OLEDs by leaving it on the same bright screen for the best part of a year may need to wait longer for true game-ending results, but for those of you who turn your screen off at the end of use (you strange folk, you), your OLED quality is going to be just fine.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the Short over on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/Ft-NnejVDk4\">Wulff Den&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>How is your Switch OLED holding up so far? Have you had any screen troubles? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life \/ Damien McFerran Way back in March of this year we reported on one YouTuber&#8217;s quest to test the limits of the Switch OLED&#8217;s screen as he left the console running for 3,600 hours. Well, we are pleased to say that Bob Wulff&#8216;s experiment over on his YouTube channel, Wulff Den, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}