Experience Thread - FW 150.83 - for 6/7/8/9000 Series - 2012

[martytv]

15. I have a darker area in the middle of the screen mostly noticeable at the top, this bothers me a lot... Is this normal, or is it a defect panel and should it be replaced?

1) put a 1920x1080 grey picture (grey picture = uniform grey everywhere, create it with your computer) on a USB key and plug it on the TV. The picture must not be white, it must be a dark colour.

2) visualize this picture with the TV, from a distance, eg. 3-4 ft

3) now look very closely at the exact center-top of the panel. You should see two tiny vertical lines/strokes about 1 inch apart from each other.

Do you see them? I would bet these things have something to do with the uniformity issues (if any)

I have a 42 inch TV. Not sure if this can be seen with other TV sizes.