LG Oled faint line

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fourstardan

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Monday 14th September 2020
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Me again i must be getting a pay back for all this tech not working after bodging stuff in my IT operational years.

I'm getting a very annoying faint line visible on greens .

Not sure if you can tell on this video.

https://youtu.be/VfHMKmJrQX8

I've seen about green lines but this is like a burn mark so I'm a bit worried.

TV is 18 months old.

fourstardan

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Tuesday 15th September 2020
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untakenname said:
Can't see the issue from that video, might be worth running some of the OLED screentest videos from AVforums.

Try going to the service menu and running the pixel refresher and see if that fixes the issue, generally burn in will only happen if you watch the same channel or leave the image on the TV paused for a long time.
Yeh I thought it wouldn't be visible, it is only really apparent on green grass (golf/footy). I have read about pixel refresher but read it makes it worse.

I've emailed LG.

One year warranty on it as standard, I will not be impressed if they give me hassle.

fourstardan

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Saturday 3rd October 2020
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This has progressed a bit.

I contacted Richers who said do a picture with yellow background, it turns out this is a rectangle not faint line.

I've reemailed LG, there email system for customer service is a joke and highly one directional but I will be pushing further on this as I have read this to be a factory fault.

It stupidly could had been there for a while, I'd just not seen it.

fourstardan

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Monday 5th October 2020
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megaphone said:
If you bought from Richer Sounds it should have come with a 6 year warranty. Get back in touch with them.
This was my thought but I think it needed a form filled in.

I'm waiting for LG to respond at the moment.

How they can get away with this on 1800 quid tv's astounds me.

fourstardan

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Monday 12th October 2020
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LG have now committed to repair this as a warranty fix.

Beware and check with a yellow test screen on Youtube as its a rather sneaky progressive issue.

Dan


fourstardan

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Saturday 17th October 2020
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LuS1fer said:
My LG Oled failed within a month and because it was intermittent, it went past the month and became a warranty issue.
The warranty department were worse than a joke and it ended up having to be repaired by a specialist some 40 miles away and I had to do without it for a month.

A year on, it is going strong but has one dead pixel. Beautiful picture but I wouldn't buy another.

Burn in has not been an issue but the "fireworks" screensaver cuts in very quickly, if you pause it.
I must admit I won't be buying LG again after this.

Although I wonder if this is OLED in general, I've had two Samsung phones that have had to have replacement screens due to burn in.

fourstardan

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Friday 30th October 2020
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Well TV screen fully replaced this afternoon.

All I did was send the yellow screen to LG, they escalated to "engineers" and it was booked in for a replacement (when out of warranty).

Bloke took about 20 minutes to change over, I think I could had done it tbh, its quite worrying what you actually get for your money with them! He took the back panel off, took the motherboards off and then switched them all to another screen.

On the way out I said "how long before this goes then", he said well maybe about another 2 years lol.

OLED not all its cracked up to be it appears.