I'm sitting here watching the cricket on my precious LG OLED worried as always about image retention (burn in) of static images. Because the action is pretty frenetic Sky is using a screen wipe to replay the action and as such is clearing the score ticker relatively frequently, but the SKY sport1 LIVE tattoo is pretty much there continuously.For some reason the TV's processing doesn't dim the logo like it does on some channels (most notably the TVNZ ones). At least it isn't as bad as it was for the Aussie Open Tennis.I remember when the tattoos were first introduced on FTA TV. TV3 sent out a bunch of stickers for people to stick on the corner of their screen. Not sure if anybody did but it was a clever piece of marketing all the same.That got me thinking, what's the point of having the tattoos these days? When a button press tells you what channel you are on, what's up next, etc. Just marketing I guess.The least they could do is make them move occasionally or better still disappear to give the pixels a rest.And while I'm ranting, does putting a whole lot of junk on the bottom of the screen promoting the next three programs annoy anybody else?It's driving me to streaming services!
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