“If your deck doesn’t look like mine I would definitely hold onto it because you know units like mine are out there now.”

This is pretty much where I’m at. People have advised me to refund, and I put a support request in which I’m awaiting response on, but at the end of the day I literally have two units right in front of me and they are almost completely identical. Mine is actually bit better than my partner’s, so I already have something to lose :O

I didn’t notice the issue for a long time because it requires a set of conditions before it appears. So I believe many people just haven’t picked up on their panels unique handling of dark images yet.

I would be interested in comparing our panels again in a other context, as yours and that other commenters seem to be on some other level of grain. I’d like to just eliminate phone camera crappyness or lighting that’s affecting the comparison, and find a game / image we have in common. It’s just hard to do with Steamui and all the opacity layers and built-in colour bleed lol, probably easier to do on KDE.

I agree that QC seems like a sore spot with both manufacturers, it’s nothing new but at the same time I am so beyond sick of panel lotteries in monitors, TV screens, gaming devices, mobiles… I get that I’m giving off old man shouts at clouds energy here but it’s so exhausting.

It’s hard for me to say if there is any “grain” to my UI or if it’s just how the UI is (like, it has colour banding on the UI that isn’t a result of the screen, just weird transparency effects, it appears on my IPS monitor as well)

With my eyes about 3x closer than I would comfortably view the screen, I detect a slight grain on a level that almost smaller than a pixel - not sure if this is the UI itself, the OLED pixels struggling, or even just the matte coating on the screen!