In the US it also depends on where you purchase from. The store can give you an extended warranty beyond the manufacturer one.
TVs
Best Buy: 1 year
Costco: 3 to 5 years depending on TV. OLEDs are all 5 years (2y manufacturer plus 3y All State insurance)
Monitors
Costco: Do not fall under the 90-day return window for electronics and you can return a monitor years later but it's not unlimited and up to the store manager.
Credit Cards
Chase: Extended warranty protection. Extends the time period of U.S. manufacturer's warranty by an additional year on eligible warranties of three years or less. If you get a TV or monitor with 3y warranty, you now have a 4y warranty. Perfect for these OLED monitors.
If you buy it from the right place and use the right credit card, you should be good for 4y. As always buy within your budget. If whatever you buy now will cause you financial burden 4y down the road if you have to replace it, don't buy it or get something within your budget. If the monitor lasts 4y, I'm okay getting another one in 4y. There will be 4 more generations of OLED panels with who knows what visual improvements and features to prevent burn in will be even better than what the current 3rd gen OLED panels already have.
LED monitors don't last forever either.
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Power electronics can fail too. Will a $100 monitor use the same quality components as a $1,300 monitor?
TVs
Best Buy: 1 year
Costco: 3 to 5 years depending on TV. OLEDs are all 5 years (2y manufacturer plus 3y All State insurance)
Monitors
Costco: Do not fall under the 90-day return window for electronics and you can return a monitor years later but it's not unlimited and up to the store manager.
Credit Cards
Chase: Extended warranty protection. Extends the time period of U.S. manufacturer's warranty by an additional year on eligible warranties of three years or less. If you get a TV or monitor with 3y warranty, you now have a 4y warranty. Perfect for these OLED monitors.
If you buy it from the right place and use the right credit card, you should be good for 4y. As always buy within your budget. If whatever you buy now will cause you financial burden 4y down the road if you have to replace it, don't buy it or get something within your budget. If the monitor lasts 4y, I'm okay getting another one in 4y. There will be 4 more generations of OLED panels with who knows what visual improvements and features to prevent burn in will be even better than what the current 3rd gen OLED panels already have.
LED monitors don't last forever either.
Longevity And Burn-In Investigation: 10-Month Results
It has been about ten months since we started our long-term accelerated longevity and burn-in test, and our 100+ TVs and monitors have cumulated over 500,000 hours of runtime.
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Power electronics can fail too. Will a $100 monitor use the same quality components as a $1,300 monitor?
