Unclefishboy73
Established Member
Hi all
I've had my LG B6 OLED since summer 2017 and love it, or did love it....until about a week ago when I noticed a significant vertical band slap bang down the middle of the screen and stretching 7 inches to the right. Literally a straight line down the centre from top to bottom. It's most noticeable when gaming (especially Sea of Thieves on my Xbox one X). See it in action here:
And see it in even more action here:
There are also other fainter bands but it's the centre to right band that is noticeable across alot of content. I see it most of the time across games and TV whether it's in standard, hi-def, 4k, Dolby vision etc. As mentioned before I only noticed this for the first time around a week ago, 99% certain it wasn't there before - I would have noticed.
I've run the manual compensation cycle and it will have run on it's own multiple times and it's not making any difference. I've seen other YouTube videos where other users have had exactly the same problem and returned their TVs. Here is an identical issue with someone a bit more angry than me
Another user stated that switching the TV off at the plug to stop it's auto compensation cycle for a week or two helps to get rid of the bands, though I haven't gone to the effort of trying this yet. The TV is in use alot with the kids etc when I'm out so enforcing that rule will be tricky - but I'll give it a go.
So my questions are these:
1) Any advice for getting rid of the banding or any chance of them just going away? (doubt it)
2) If no to the above - what are the odds of me getting a replacement panel or TV? I bought the TV from an Amazon seller summer 2017 so it's outside of the years warranty. From what I hear LG customer service is medieval level nasty.
Would appreciate any advice whatsoever!
Thanks
Chris
I've had my LG B6 OLED since summer 2017 and love it, or did love it....until about a week ago when I noticed a significant vertical band slap bang down the middle of the screen and stretching 7 inches to the right. Literally a straight line down the centre from top to bottom. It's most noticeable when gaming (especially Sea of Thieves on my Xbox one X). See it in action here:
And see it in even more action here:
There are also other fainter bands but it's the centre to right band that is noticeable across alot of content. I see it most of the time across games and TV whether it's in standard, hi-def, 4k, Dolby vision etc. As mentioned before I only noticed this for the first time around a week ago, 99% certain it wasn't there before - I would have noticed.
I've run the manual compensation cycle and it will have run on it's own multiple times and it's not making any difference. I've seen other YouTube videos where other users have had exactly the same problem and returned their TVs. Here is an identical issue with someone a bit more angry than me
Another user stated that switching the TV off at the plug to stop it's auto compensation cycle for a week or two helps to get rid of the bands, though I haven't gone to the effort of trying this yet. The TV is in use alot with the kids etc when I'm out so enforcing that rule will be tricky - but I'll give it a go.
So my questions are these:
1) Any advice for getting rid of the banding or any chance of them just going away? (doubt it)
2) If no to the above - what are the odds of me getting a replacement panel or TV? I bought the TV from an Amazon seller summer 2017 so it's outside of the years warranty. From what I hear LG customer service is medieval level nasty.
Would appreciate any advice whatsoever!
Thanks
Chris