OLED TV support for screen savers

[pbeskeen]

Using a OLED TV (in my case an LG 48CX) as a main monitor causes complications due to lack of sleep/standby/suspend support coupled with the need to reduce the potential for burn in.

No monitor suspend functionality is particularly a problem for multi-monitor setups - if you physically turn off the TV as an alternative, Windows will annoyingly moving any windows to the other available monitors.

Having tried various hardware and software fixes, its clear that this is an issue that is not easy to work around. Thankfully being an OLED, not much power is used if the screen is completely blank. Sadly therefore I have stopped using the Random Photo Screen saver, and instead simply used the system "blank" screensaver instead along with no monitor suspend timeout. This is a great pity as the OLED looks fabulous when displaying artwork in screen saver mode.

So, a suggestion: how about an OLED option to the RandomPhotoScreensaver that simply displays a blank black screen at the end of a users selectable "OLED screen saver timeout" period?

When completely black OLED screens use little energy as there is no backlight. This new OLED specific feature would therefore provide a) help reduce power usage, and b) reduce the potential for screen burn-in that OLEDs are susceptible to, c) work around the annoyance in multimonitor setups, of M$Windows moving windows to other displays if the TV is turned off.

Thanks, Paul.