Thanks for your reply. I used the monitor yesterday for like an hour and the improved uniformity still stays (I use patterns gray 5% to test it) unfortunately i didnt have time to take a picture out of the box but it looked indeed as defective panel. I will keep testing the monitor as much as I can so i wont run out of the return period just in case that vertical line comes back.RealNC wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024, 09:49
Lines on the screen are not normal, unless it's this:
"However, like any OLED, there are thin gray vertical lines in dark scenes"
Personally, I can't see them, but I can see something that looks like vertical bar gradients in dark gray in fullscreen or near-fullscreen gray.
jorimt here mentioned that he saw OLEDs that would look dirty out of the box and required a couple pixel cleaning cycles to clear up the panel and make it uniform. I didn't observe anything like that here though.
I knew about the "break period time" but on my cx for example, banding/dirty effect never changed over the years, perhaps a bit worse in terms of use. That's why it surprised that drasctic change on uniformity in less than 30 minutes of use.
Ok i will test gamma, but yesterday it looked comfortable 2.0 for windows desktop use and for gaming 2.2 looked a bit better than 2.0.
Gamma does affect black levels. You can test it here:
Out of the box I set it to 4 hours (still the reminder hasnt popped, so I assume i dont even have 4 hours of use)
I usually do it every 4 hours. I might skip it sometimes though if I forget. Usually when the notification pops up, I just ignore it or cancel it, but then run a pixel cleaning cycle manually when I leave for a chore or need to go to the bathroom. It only takes 4 minutes, so it's usually finished already when I come back.
To have quick access to the pixel cleaning function, I mapped it to the control stick in the "My Favorite/Shortcut" section of the OSD.
Whether it's better to run it every 4 hours or not, I don't know. I don't see why it would be worse.
I was just asking because on the lg cx the refresh pixel cycle tends to degrade the panel but I think the cycle that degrades the panel is the 1 hour cycle which i think is not available on this model.
Regarding power, do you happen to know if is possible to prevent the monitor to turn on when plugged to power automatically? I have the monitor connected to a power strip with a switch that I turn off every night so as soon as i turn the switch on, the monitor turns on.
Thanks again for your time
