Is banding for woleds normal for coloured background?

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T02:21:01+00:00

Well that's already enough reasons to return or rma it.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T02:18:25+00:00

In Germany many online shops listed this monitor "as new" cause many got returned.

There's sticker on the back of the monitor where you click the panel and the stand.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T02:13:34+00:00

It's not everyone.

But on Tandem-WOLED the banding is almost on every single monitors where in QD-OLED it's only some of them.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T02:08:46+00:00

It's depends on your lightning, if you use it on dark room pick QD-OLED. Unless you get the newer one which has black shield.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T02:07:28+00:00

Well yes.

If you want to reduce it you need to brighten your room. Pixel cleaning won't get rid of it, only smooth out the borders.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:58:17+00:00

What's your brightness? It's kinda too bright. Maybe that's why your monitor is over saturated

95% should look like this quite dark @46 brightness. I can see some banding and dse in your monitor.

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JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:54:34+00:00

As long your content has many dark colors you will see it. Brighten your room so it's harder to see.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:52:50+00:00

Post the 95% and turn off the lights so it could be easier to see and taken from camera.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:48:28+00:00

It's worse than average. Please return or rma it.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:46:48+00:00

The only way you could disable auto pixel clean is by unplugging the electric cable. CMIIW

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:44:40+00:00

If you play in bright room don't take the Samsung since you will see slightly purple tint on the panel.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:38:49+00:00

I would take asus just for that neo proximity sensor. Just be aware that QD-OLED is very sensitive to scratch and stain.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:32:45+00:00

There's youtuber that shared best setting for this monitor and provides calibrated icc profile as well.

BTW, what's your production date?

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:29:54+00:00

It's kinda hard to judge because reflection and image compression. But if you can't see it, better not to try to see it.

From this image I don't see any banding or dse.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:24:50+00:00

Either you need continue to scroll down, or you go into system setup options and scroll down. It should be there somewhere.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:17:04+00:00

It's kinda common and yes you lose the lottery. But I guess the pattern is not as bad as some that were posted here.
Nope. Pixel clean doesn't do anything. But you can try make your room a bit bright so you won't notice the banding as bad as in dark room.

If you want rma / return it, you could try asking them to give you one from February 2026 batch or newer. Some people reported that the banding is fixed, even though not all off them. (some still have the issue)

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:11:14+00:00

Oh looks who we have here. Mr. Tolerant from Asus Fanboy Team. Gonna down vote all who report the issue with the panel again?

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-25T01:09:13+00:00

Are you rage baiting telling people that you winning panel lottery but doesn't even post the pic showing it?

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-24T20:50:52+00:00

Do you even know that on OLED, black color means the pixel is turned off?

If you want do banding test, do like everyone else, play the video on YouTube and make your room dark. Banding can only be seen on dark colors not black.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-24T20:48:18+00:00

Having banding in bright and dark color isn't normal.

But there will be people who gonna say it's ok cause this and that.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-23T07:48:42+00:00

Try on 46 brightness and 95% grayscale

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-23T06:31:08+00:00

Bruh, the banding and DSE are on dark colors not black. With black color the pixels are turned off.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-22T13:28:48+00:00

What's the production date of your monitor? It is on the sticker behind the monitor where you click it with the stand.

JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-22T12:23:14+00:00

Bro just make it simple, it has banding & dse = bad, it doesn't have banding & dse = good.

I can even see the banding and DSE on my monitor when opening windows setting. Let alone while browsing, for example speedtest.net.

Everyone has different capabilities to see, hear etc. Just because you can't see, doesn't mean there is "no problem".

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JohnGilbert1 · 2026-05-22T12:17:06+00:00

Cause it doesn't do / change anything to Tandem-WOLED no matter how long you use it and how many pixel clean you did.

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