Your experience with OLED burn-in

MrRockliffe said:
Did indeed - I'm sure there have been many, but when I worked there, we had a meeting around someone being banned from the store, and was shown his photo and various personas he's used.

Slightly different though, as he was suspected to be buying expensive TVs for big football games and then returning them quoting he simply didn't like the picture.

If the TV is defective, I think you should be able to return it up to 5 times before a shop goes "hey mate, clearly this TV and their manufacturing process isn't right for you - no more buying and returning"

At the end of the day, you don't have the right to buy a TV
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You have to admit though, between PC monitors and TVs from low to premium, the quality control is beyond shocking with most.
People on this very forum has complained about the bogus quality on IPS monitors amongst others that are supposed to be top products.
Even that 4k monitor with the fan?

You just need to read the complaints over the years on AVForums and AVSforum from LCD, Plasma, OLED from the people that have spent $2,500 to $15,000 plus. Granted there has been some near to flawless sets out there but it seems to be rare.

A little example of them testing and talking about quirks, bugs and glitches from way back. Quite extensive but people on forums over the years has complained about many issues just like @woppy101 from DSE, banding, banding near black, magenta/red/yellow and green/cyan on 50% to 80% grey, hot spots, panel seperation. The list is truly endless for quality control.

Even to poor colour tracking to bugs in firmware. Floating gamma, vignetting near black, crushed black on some OLED sets that can't be fixed without hindering contrast ratio. You name it. Granted these are old but quality control is still quite poor to this very day.
 
V F said:
You have to admit though, between PC monitors and TVs from low to premium, the quality control is beyond shocking with most.
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em - no - it is the practicalities of process variation for a complex production process - the same problem is repeated in miniscule for the production of silicon chips, where across several hundreds of nano-meters away transistors can have different drive capability, which has to be accomodated in the timing analysis to ensure your amd/intel/arm chip will work; it share some characteristics with baking a cake, the oven temeprature and mix of the ingrediants varies across the surface.
 
Banding, DSE, colour blotches and other problems is beyond minuscule compared to silicon lottery for overclocking. Those are beyond pretty big problems when you can see it very clearly in panning.

The question is what's the least poison you pick that wont drive you nuts.
 
V F said:
Banding, DSE, colour blotches and other problems is beyond minuscule compared to silicon lottery for overclocking. Those are beyond pretty big problems when you can see it very clearly in panning.

The question is what's the least poison you pick that wont drive you nuts.
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Processors will meet the specification given by the manufacturer though, you know the minimum you will get prior to buying it. Screen quality is a lot more subjective. I mean, objectively you can find out if your screen has banding or what have you, but whether or not you notice it and/or are bothered by it is entirely subjective.
 
Some people can go complete overboard with screen selection.

I tend to run a few quick tests to test for the major problems then forget about it.

I have returned a few ISP monitor's. One Samsung TV for very bad backlight bleed.

My C6 did have a slight yellow tint down the middle which I kept.

The C8 I have now I can't spot anything apart from the micro blocking .
 
My LG B6 still looks fab, no issues at all.

Going from LCD to OLED was the best thing I ever did, I was always messing around with brightness and contrast on LCD TV's, trying to get the best compromise between the settings and I rarely ever change settings with OLED, everything just looks good.
 
Bigpig said:
Some people can go complete overboard with screen selection.

I tend to run a few quick tests to test for the major problems then forget about it.

I have returned a few ISP monitor's. One Samsung TV for very bad backlight bleed.

My C6 did have a slight yellow tint down the middle which I kept.

The C8 I have now I can't spot anything apart from the micro blocking .
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I'm of a similar train of thought.
If you have to watch a grey slide to see any problems then unless you're really into grey slides there is no issue.

I'm very happy with my screen, as when I watch a movie I think it looks amazing and that is good enough for me! (Sony AF8)
 
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Update from my original posts a few pages back.
My B6 was returned from Currys yesterday. New screen and Pcb power supply fitted. All good so far. Just re-adjusting back to watching a 55inch screen (after a week of using my old 42inch plasma), then will look at the set up from the links you guys gave me.
So Currys Knowhow are replacing under warranty screens with screen burn.
Good luck to everyone else going through the process of making a warranty claims. I hope you get your issues resolved.
 
For anyone interested, I have also taken the plunge with the Currys 5 year warranty re my 65 inch C6, owned for 1 year and 5 months. Called today and they are collecting tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
 
Update for mine - got a call from Currys today. They are replacing the panel - yay! However, the chap on the phone informed me LG no longer manufacture the 3d panel, the panel I'll be receiving is therefore a 2d only panel.

Pleased for the new screen, but slightly upset of the lack of 3d, it being 1 of the last (and best) 3d tv's on the market. Who thinks I should follow up after with the Curry's ceo team, or do I leave it and be grateful it's being sorted? -A problem arising through no fault of my own.

Expecting to receive the tv back in 4-5 days.
 
You should have grounds for some compensation or something there as you aren't getting a like for like replacement, you're probably getting a newer panel that will have positives over that old one but it's entirely lacking a feature I'd imagine you bought it for?
 
That's correct, I now have a redundant collection of 3d blu rays.

Think I will wait to receive the TV back, make sure it's ok. Then I'll e-mail the currys ceo team re the loss of an important feature for me, hopefully that does equate to some compensation. Ultimately this is all from poor practice by LG, meanwhile Currys seem to be doing their best on this occasion which is a nice surprise.

Cheers
 
Had my C6 back for a few days, now with a new panel, completely clear of any issues apart from a slight bit of yellow tint down 1 edge - but accepted that's normal for these lg oleds.

3D indeed no longer works - I haven't followed up on this yet though.

Overall the panel definitely seems more vibrant and punchy which is great. I made a point of saving my old settings - these don't work well at all with this new panel - it seems completely different. My old screen had a red-ish reflective coating, whereas this 1 has a blue reflective coating. Does anyone know what age this became the norm?

I'm wondering whether to use recommended settings from a newer model to cater for the newer panel, or stick with those of the 2016 models as it still has 2016 internals driving it. 1st world problems! :p
 
Just to chime in,

I had a KS7000 LCD for a long time and had no issues

Have a B755" OLED (had it about 10 months)

Regular gaming and sport watching, its probably on at least 9 hours on the weekend, This weekend i watched 3 Six nations games and Man U V Wolves on it all in a row, no issues,

Worth mentioning I never have treated in anyway different for being an OLED either
 
aoaaron said:
anyone here used them for pc gaming? i thought the taskbar or youtube or browser windows would estroy an oled
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1) Your taskbar is not visible while you are playing a game, so I'm not sure how it's relevant.
2) Watch youtube in fullscreen then
3) You can hide the taskbar and choose a dark mode theme if you wish

I've now put 400 hours of PC gaming on the C9, zero issues.
 
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