GIGABYTE Announces Enhanced 3-Year Warranty for QD OLED Gaming Monitors

[Baba]

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.

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.

www.rtings.com

Power electronics can fail too. Will a $100 monitor use the same quality components as a $1,300 monitor?

 

[Gungar]

At these prices and the risks involved, 5 years minimum, manufacturers need to stand by their products, this whole thing where we are BETA testers and getting screwed the whole time is just not on.

The manufacturers are not responsible for user stupidity and negligence.

 

[RUSerious]

I wish I had talked to Dell CS (text chat) about their extended warranty. Couldn't figure out if their 5 year plan included burn in - which is becoming more of a concern to me considering some ppls comments. Actually, maybe I can still add it - it's less than 30 days since purchase.

 

[trsttte]

The manufacturers are not responsible for user stupidity and negligence.

It's a monitor, what are you supposed to do besides connecting the cables to the correct inputs?

If the tech is not mature enough don't sell it, or sell it with the necessary disclaimers that you won't be able to use it like a regular monitor. This is not a user problem, this a marketing problem and they can't have it both ways.