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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 UpdateDeliberately 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!
  • when the taskbar burning gets too bad, just rotate the monitor upside down
    @roadrash999See it on YouTube
  • 30 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
  • I want this series to run until the monitor’s brightness is below 100 nits
  • I swear it feels like these updates coming out every two months or so.
  • My favorite YT series about monitors!
  • This 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 YouTube
  • This 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 YouTube
  • So 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

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The facts
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.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
PCMag
258,894
subscribers
250,000
▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days
total views
45,752,948
views per day
122,496
typical day: 85,989
first-day views of each video posted this week
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
PCMag
263,000
As of October 11, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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