Buying OLED, living with OLED: Monitors Unboxed covers both
A 1440p buying guide shares the week with Tim's long-running burn-in experiment and an earlier budget-monitor comparison.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Deliberately Burning In My QD-OLED Monitor - 30 Month Update
Monitors Unboxed paired two very different questions: which gaming monitor should you buy, and what happens after you've used an OLED for a long time?
"Best 1440p Gaming Monitors of 2026" handles the shopping side, separating budget, mid-range and high-refresh OLED choices from HDR LCD options and multiplayer-focused picks. Rather than treating every gamer as the same buyer, its chapters make room for different priorities, including an entry-level category.
The bigger audience went to "Deliberately Burning In My QD-OLED Monitor - 30 Month Update," which has reached roughly 438,000 views. Tim's update moves through burn-in results, color examples, brightness loss and the impact on daily use. The replies add a distinctly long-term perspective: viewers are wondering about the warranty, proposing ways to change the wear pattern and joking that these updates have become a reminder of time passing.
Both new uploads are also the channel's busiest videos right now. Behind them, "I Tested 11 Budget QD-OLED Monitors. This One is Best" keeps the buying conversation going, with comparisons spanning brightness, calibration, motion performance, ports and design.
The channel added subscribers and nearly 900,000 views over the week, the largest weekly viewing gain among the nearby technology channels here. Byte Review also had substantial weekly viewing, while GNCA had a quieter week. For Monitors Unboxed, the useful pairing is unusually clear: a guide to choosing a screen, alongside an experiment about living with one.
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What viewers say
It's nearly time for Tim to test the 3 year burn-in warranty!
@Dewedin.See it on YouTubewhen the taskbar burning gets too bad, just rotate the monitor upside down
@roadrash999See it on YouTube30 months? Time goes by so fast.
@muitarpied2726See it on YouTube
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This is an essential experiment and I'm invested till the end
@Puyols37See it on YouTubeI want this series to run until the monitor’s brightness is below 100 nits
@RealGoos3See it on YouTubeI swear it feels like these updates coming out every two months or so.
@Freaked-9See it on YouTubeMy favorite YT series about monitors!
@VnikXumSee it on YouTubeThis has become a regular reminder of how fast time is passing by and how much older I'm becoming 😅. keep up the great work!
@HasanAlKharfanSee it on YouTubeThis series is the reason I took the OLED plunge. If worst case burn in is this minor after 30 months of heavy use then I should be good for years to come.
@maginty1982See it on YouTubeSo great that someone tests this. I already got an OLED monitor some times ago and have used it daily for all purposes.
@OverDone-YTSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
The videos drawing views on Monitors Unboxed right now
- Channel
- Monitors Unboxed
- Subscribers
- 250,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 893,963
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 438,018
- Views on its first day
- 168,851
The numbers
Here is the week in views, subscribers and the videos drawing attention.
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