Comments on: What Is the LCD HDTV Clouding Effect?

By: LN52A650

LN52A650 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:19:15 +0000

Bought Samsung LN52A650 in February. Noticed a lot of clouding. I have had 3 service centers out and they told me it was normal. It is way to obvious to be normal. Took pictures and called Samsung for escalation process. They are reviewing it. Samsung uses 3 different panels. Samsung’s S-PVA panel, the best quality (if you’re lucky).
A-MVA panel from Taiwan’s AUO (a notch worse than S-PVA).
Chinese company Chi Mei’s S-MVA panel (worst of the three). I hope I get a panel replacement and I hope it is a good Samsung one.

By: Mitt Mac Mini-mediacenter « Spridda tankar om allt möjligt

Mitt Mac Mini-mediacenter « Spridda tankar om allt möjligt — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:04:26 +0000

[...] att tv:ns bakgrundsbelysning var för lågt ställd. Då alla LCD-tvapparater lider av så kallad clouding i varierande mån, hade jag för att minska detta dragit ner bakgrundsbelysningen till ett minimum. [...]

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:35:12 +0000

Purchased a Samsung LN46A650 and a Samsung LN52A850. The 46 is perfect in every way. The 52 has severe “clouding” or “flash-lighting” I cannot look at the screen. Called Samsung, Tech knows all about it but customer service does’t. Repair team says their tech reps are telling them it’s okay! They’re coming out to see for themselves. These anomlies are unacceptable. Will keep you up to date.

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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:18:31 +0000

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By: howie

howie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:42:47 +0000

spoke to sony yesterday
they told me that clouding helps preserve life of lcd !
and new 5500 range could still have it
sat 14th march 2009

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:14:37 +0000

I just bought the Samsung LN52A850 and it has the clouding effect. The most annoying is the 5″ by 5″ square at the bottom left of the screen. Very annoying when you pay a fortune for this TV. First Samsung rep claimed to be clueless. Repair man came out and appeared to be clueless as well. when I pressed Samsung the second time they came clean and told me it was the “flashlight effect due to tight packaging during shipping. I believe they plan to replace the screen.

By: Fuad

Fuad — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:00:35 +0000

Called Samsung and told them of issue. They are having the screen replaced. Just FYI incase anyone is interested and within their 1 year warranty!!!

By: Fuad

Fuad — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:33:21 +0000

Got an LN46A650 yesterday. It is great but whent he reciever is turned off you see the bleeding…it is slight but as the first post said it is too much to bare for the price

By: samsung 46 850

samsung 46 850 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:19:56 +0000

clouds on top rigth and bottom corners, some minor ones in left and bottom

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:33:39 +0000

Sony KDL-40W4500 Very Slight Clouding top left corner , twice as much top right corner. This is driving me nutts but its not as bad as the screenshots here. still debateing weather to get the set replaced arrrrhhhhh