Yeah agreed after seeing that.
So I received the potential replacement unit yesterday. Judging by the packaging, it was transported under a truck rather than in it. The flashing is exactly the same, so I guess its age to assume there is more viewer's variance rather than panel variance in this regard.
However, the screen is quite a bit brighter (the old one measured about 690-700 nits peak brightness on a 1% - 10% window, the new one between 760 and 780 nits). On the other hand, the screen is absolutely terrible in terms of bright uniformity. It almost looks like a rainbow. The left is greenish, the middle yellow and the right....something else (it looks slightly worse in the picture than in reality, art least the pink part). It baffles me how a screen like this can pass quality control (unless it is due to transport, but I doubt that, since there are a lot of cases like this one among all brands offering OLEDs).
I guess I will settle with my previous unit then. It only has a reddish tint on the left, which is hardly ever visible (except for white screens). Sure, peak brightness is darker, but I guess that's only visible in direct comparison. I could get another replacement, but from my experience it can only get worse (so far I've had terrible banding even up to about 20% stimulus, half the screen pink, and a Sony that had no brightness gradations (2, 3 an 4% were basically the same brightness) and hence no details below 5% but otherwise a perfect panel).
So I will just tell them I'm going to keep the previous one for a 300€ discount.
