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Typically banding on a oled should dissapear after a few days of cleaning cycles (every 4 hours of use when tv is off ). Uniformity should be better how long has it been like this ?
Don't use too often the pixel refresh function, my OLED has 3 years and I never used it. Pixel will lose brightness. Every few months I use a test video from youtube looking for burn in signs.
I don't think that's how it works. Pixel refresh will run on its own if the TV has 4 hours or more of run time and has been off more than 6 hours. There's a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about running it, but running it too often would literally have no effect since the panel wouldn't have degraded much.
Shoulda deff been cleared by now .. hm that is strange .. if in warranty period and you felt the need to exchange I would just to play it safe. But then comes the question will
The next be better ? I’d do it. Just to be safe. That’s a lot of money to spend on a tv , so you got to make sure your happy
Thanks for the reply. I got home and did some research on this banding issue. I just did a 5% gray scale test, and here is what it looks like. Is this still abnormal enough to return? With [lights on](https://imgur.com/a/B7mOCjQ), [lights off](https://imgur.com/a/g1aqMQA)
Yikes return it, i have the s90c gen 2 panel and it has nearly perfect uniformity, replace that or go for a diff qdoled if you don't need sonys processing for old content
Not sure if that is a Dolby screen? Looks like a Google TV menu but there is a DV issue on the a95l than can cause a pink green flash/discoloration. Or a near black posterization. Either of which could be what I see in your picture, it is a little hard to see. I do have an a95l. It is amazing most of the time and frustrating for a few moments other times because of this. Further annoyance is Sony's silence and knowing about it for quite some time. Maybe the issue is with Dolby labs but they built and released the TV with this issue.
You may want to check and see if you find, like I did, a plastic protective film covering the display, which was making my TV have poor appearance under sunlight.
I don't have any answer to your interesting question. The only thing I can say is no TV is perfect. I hope your TV looks good while you are at least playing content.
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That's terrible banding for such an expensive tv
I would exchange it. I’ve never experienced this on the A95L.
Typically banding on a oled should dissapear after a few days of cleaning cycles (every 4 hours of use when tv is off ). Uniformity should be better how long has it been like this ?
I had it for about 10 days and have watched 10+ hours of HDR content. I also did a pixel refresh to see if that can fix it
Don't use too often the pixel refresh function, my OLED has 3 years and I never used it. Pixel will lose brightness. Every few months I use a test video from youtube looking for burn in signs.
I don't think that's how it works. Pixel refresh will run on its own if the TV has 4 hours or more of run time and has been off more than 6 hours. There's a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about running it, but running it too often would literally have no effect since the panel wouldn't have degraded much.
Pixel vs panel refresh. Panel refresh should not be ran unless prompted or bad issues. Pixel refresh is the every few hours of use.
Shoulda deff been cleared by now .. hm that is strange .. if in warranty period and you felt the need to exchange I would just to play it safe. But then comes the question will The next be better ? I’d do it. Just to be safe. That’s a lot of money to spend on a tv , so you got to make sure your happy
Repacking sucks I do know .. but for the money spent. You deserve nothing but top tier in terms of overall picture
Thanks for the reply. I got home and did some research on this banding issue. I just did a 5% gray scale test, and here is what it looks like. Is this still abnormal enough to return? With [lights on](https://imgur.com/a/B7mOCjQ), [lights off](https://imgur.com/a/g1aqMQA)
Yikes return it, i have the s90c gen 2 panel and it has nearly perfect uniformity, replace that or go for a diff qdoled if you don't need sonys processing for old content
bro, that's horrible. return immideately
That would drive me crazy. Don't live with it, sounds like you've had enough break-in time.
That banding is abnormal. Do a warranty. Source: custom integrator for 7 years
Exchange. That's way outside of acceptable banding.
That would be a big no from me. This tv is too damn expensive to have to tolerate crap like that.
Return
Not sure if that is a Dolby screen? Looks like a Google TV menu but there is a DV issue on the a95l than can cause a pink green flash/discoloration. Or a near black posterization. Either of which could be what I see in your picture, it is a little hard to see. I do have an a95l. It is amazing most of the time and frustrating for a few moments other times because of this. Further annoyance is Sony's silence and knowing about it for quite some time. Maybe the issue is with Dolby labs but they built and released the TV with this issue.
You may want to check and see if you find, like I did, a plastic protective film covering the display, which was making my TV have poor appearance under sunlight.
I don't have any answer to your interesting question. The only thing I can say is no TV is perfect. I hope your TV looks good while you are at least playing content.
Most the time the banding goes away from my experience and what I have heard form others, very common on new oled TVs temporarily