Two days after I set up my new LG OLED C7 65", a friend asked me "Hey how is vertical banding on your set?"
And I went - WAH!?? What vertical banding? I had heard of OLED burn in before and that was avoidable - don't watch TV with logos blazing on the screen.
But vertical banding? So much for doing my research...
So there's a youtube clip you can check it with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi4Wy7vE8-o
Watch it in a dark room. If you have vertical banding, you should be able to see it. Now I see it in my XBox One menus as well.
I suspect you won't see this in the higher end models from LG where they cherry pick the panels.
Recently got a Loewe OLED (also an LG panel) in the store and I thought I'd check the same youtube clips. Boy - was I surprised. no sign of vertical banding.
For those of us who don't have an OLED and want to see what the fuss is about, watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP4vEGREGD4
FWIW I got a Sony ZD9 last year and it wasnt doing much in the game room - I moved it out for TV duties after I noticed our old plasma had pretty noticeable burn in late last year and got the C7 OLED to replace it in the game room.
I have to say, I prefer the ZD9 Full Array LED backlight to the OLED. Blacks are surprisingly close but the punchiness of the bright panel is phenomenal especially with Dolby Vision material (in latest Sony firmware). It is about 1800 nits - almost twice that of the OLED.
Re this actress:
Looks like the actress in Chicago PD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Bush