LG OLED B7 - Vertical banding

[Stringaa]

Hi everyone,

So I’ve had this tv for about 14 months now. Never had any issues with it until maybe a couple of months ago when I noticed some slight vertical banding issues, it was only in a couple of areas on the tv at first but it seems to have got worse and worse since then and on bright red/orange scenes is visible across the whole of the screen and really quite distracting.

Having read up a bit about vertical banding it seems to usually effect grey scenes but it seems worse for me on bright redish coloured scenes as mentioned above.

I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence but it seems to have got visibly worse after every time a pixel refresher cycle has run.

I’ve attached a few pictures, it’s quite hard to notice in some but it’s very visible to the naked eye.

It came with a 5 year guarantee - should I just phone the store and see if I can get a replacement?

 

[Flame89]

Oh yes, that's bad. Call them up and ask for a replacement.

 

[lgans316]

Within specs if you are the UnLucky Goldstar....

 

[Matsy]

That will be within spec according to LG.
Banding is something that ALL TVs (apart from the mighty Plasma) have to various extents.
I'd call though and demand a replacement.
If you can see it on actual content (which you can) then its NOT good enough.

 

[rborhara]

i see banding on the football green it looks like half the screen is one shade of green and one half another but a close detailed look shows banding which occured as soon as TV was 13months old. I do have John lewis warranty

 

[Hartson]

Does it look like a rectangle in the centre of your screen? It looks like what you have there is the 25% window defect. Which is brought on by using the pixel refresher. It is a manufacturing defect so lg will fix it even out of warranty. Look up the video by rtings.com on utube. If you are in the USA they will do a software fix. If you are elsewhere they will replace the panel. I know as I had my panel replaced due to it.