LG WOLED TVs suffer from 'edge rot' pixel death

When shopping for an OLED TV, most prospective owners are concerned about burn-in, a problem that's been mostly mitigated, save perhaps for scenarios that involve leaving a TV on 24/7. This has been demonstrated by RTing's famous long-running test, but the site has found a new problem that seemingly pertains to pre-2023 LG WOLED panels: edge rot, where pixels progressively go dark around the edges, similar to a mold pattern.

RTings says that 14 out of the 16 LG televisions in its burn-in test have developed this problem in varying degrees, so 87.5% of a small test sample are affected. Those sets were all made between 2020 and 2022. The site says that several staff members saw the issue pop up on their personal televisions. Some searches indicate similar reports from users everywhere, and coincidentally, I learned about this just last week as a close friend sent photos of his 2019 LG TV.

The site says that the television sets …