people have been experiencing dead pixels as you mentioned, some people have their face buttons get stuck under the shell of the deck and not raise up again after being pressed, mushy triggers (the trigger hits something internally that causes resistance). there’s also apparently an audio crackling issue i was unaware of that affects all OLED models when you use wired headphones.

as for the panel, that’s a very fluid situation. here is a post to tell which panel you have. which is preferred, however, is apparently up for debate. to my understanding, all LE models have a BOE supplied panel and the non LE decks have Samsung supplied panels. i’ve seen people going to bat for both sides, apparently BOE ones can be overclocked more easily?? or at all?? i don’t know and i’m not one to tinker like that. as long as it looks good to you, then i think that’s all that counts!

i wasn’t trying to handwave anything. merely wanted to offer a “it’s not all bad” point of view because many people might feel totally hopeless when they might not need to. i understand there’s definitely a non-insignificant percentage of folks that have issues, definitely not trying to minimize that.

i was waiting for my deck to get delivered and was scrolling through /new constantly to try and get a sense for what was going on as i waited. i know that i was definitely nervous about my screen having dead pixels, so i wanted to be the post that i wish i’d seen more often simply saying: hey, i got it, it’s all fine.

Limited Edition, it’s the transparent grey and red/orange one

not even a little bit, I must’ve missed this being an issue lmao