Love4sound
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Yeah camera is slightly over exposing it. Looks little better in person
OLED uniformity thread
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gauravkhanna1
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Sure. Give me an hour. Need to let it get dark. Lol
Oh damn! It is indeed a horror show for banding. So in the new one, there's faint band on the extreme left and then one on the right. They are really faint though. I can ignore these. The previous one would have wrecked this shot. I hope they'll get better with time too, vain as that hope might be, but the panel is changing. I took a photo just now, and the areas on the bottom have gotten slightly brighter. More meaningful changes will happen over a few days. Will post a new pic here after a week. I did cave in a do a manual refresh too, but won't do anymore. Lol. I'm impatient.
Love4sound
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I will check this scene later tonight
Love4sound
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I checked marco polo and mindhunters and in both no prominent banding. Normal viewing you wouldn't even notice
Yup! You should skip checking this scenes. You lucked out. Lol. Chill and enjoy. No point obsessing about it for you. GK1 needs to decide whether replacement is needed now itself or not. I have accepted mine. Will keep checking it to see and report how and if it improves in the first 100 hours. Then just forget about it.
Oh! My parents didn't notice that defect at all in content watching even with the previous panel. They weren't pixel peeping I guess. It's only us enthusiasts who get these obsessions, but then, it's only because we care about PQ.
Love4sound
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Yeah I am not testing much. Just checked those two scenes to see how the panel performs. Will check this OA scene which will be the last.
gauravkhanna1
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Definitely this panel is better than your previous one, good that you went in for a replacement.
Is this a RAW photo, the 3 big faint bands in the photo are they visible to naked eye? or apparent only in photos.
They are visible but quite faint. Like have to wait for eyes to adjust for a few minutes and then only can I see them. In content, like the OA scene, faintly visible only. Not visible to eyes at 10%. The previous band was faintly visible even at 20%.
gauravkhanna1
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Do you assume the number of short comp cycles undergone from the usage hours? or is there a way to know the precise number from service menu.
Service menu tells the exact number.
gauravkhanna1
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Can you tell the procedure for accessing service menu and therein where to find the number of comp cycles undergone.
You'll need a service remote or a phone with IR sensor and use an app. Service remote can be bought from AliExpress.
Love4sound
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This is from the OA scene. No banding. Saw the full scene
Seems clean apart from the dark edges. However, those can brighten up too as more compensation cycles happen. You're good to go.
Love4sound
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Yeah I am one happy c9 user hahah
gauravkhanna1
Active Member
@Marakk , i have finally decided to try for a panel replacement. What was the procedure in your case. When you called the helpline to lodge a service request, what did you mention, that the TV has uniformity/ banding issues?
And when the technician visited your place, you showed them the slides or problematic content? Did the service engineer did any of his own testing like running his own slides or test patterns etc?
And when the technician visited your place, you showed them the slides or problematic content? Did the service engineer did any of his own testing like running his own slides or test patterns etc?
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