Razer please tell me this is a defective display or its how Mini LED technology implemented in this laptop and it's considered "normal".
White objects on black that are smaller than 2cm turns grey. I recorded a video showing this problem.
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I got an upgraded 2024 Oled with the 4080 and the 32gb ram
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agreed. been back and fourth with support for months and now they are just sending over my blooming and panel firmware issues to their internal team now. not much help from them either. fucking unbelievable
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I think we should not stop complaining for this and we all should Join with a Class action for this because Razer is known for shit like this they can Implement this with Bios Update but they are also Lazy and they don’t want to put the Cost to do that maybe someone, Can compare if the Logic board of the 24 has any specific, Chip for Mini Led Dimming controller should be eazy to spot as chip since the Boards of both models are almost the same in terms of size and Chip arangment!
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I think we should not stop complaining for this and we all should Join with a Class action for this because Razer is known for shit like this they can Implement this with Bios Update but they are also Lazy and they don’t want to put the Cost to do that maybe someone, Can compare if the Logic board of the 24 has any specific, Chip for Mini Led Dimming controller should be eazy to spot as chip since the Boards of both models are almost the same in terms of size and Chip arangment!
100% agree. We paid too much money to just ignore false advertising. They need to either fix this, replace my laptop with one that works of equal or greater specs, or give me my money back.
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I think we should not stop complaining for this and we all should Join with a Class action for this because Razer is known for shit like this they can Implement this with Bios Update but they are also Lazy and they don’t want to put the Cost to do that maybe someone, Can compare if the Logic board of the 24 has any specific, Chip for Mini Led Dimming controller should be eazy to spot as chip since the Boards of both models are almost the same in terms of size and Chip arangment!
100% agree. We paid too much money to just ignore false advertising. They need to either fix this, replace my laptop with one that works of equal or greater specs, or give me my money back.
Yepp cause i know i didnt just spend $3000 for a paperweight
My Razer Blade 16 Mercury Screen (BOE) had some wild local dimming artifacts, similar to the following video:
The following workaround made my screen more acceptable (but still no solution for content creation):
- Press Win key, type and open "Color Management"
- Select "Advanced" Tab on the top row
- Click "Calibrate Display" Click "Next" and accept the warning.
- Click "Next" until you arrive at the color balance with the 3 color sliders.
- Move all color sliders completely to the left.
- Now use the back button on top to get to the start of the calibration.
- Adjust gamma and brightness now to your liking (and maybe also colors if required).
- Finish calibration.
Colors look less overblown and more accurate now and local dimming artifacts seem down to a minimum on my screen. But they can still be seen.
I did not test this yet, but it might also have a positive impact on battery life.
The Bad:
- The max brightness of the screen in non-HDR is quite limited now, but more than bright enough for me (HDR is still very very bright).
- The factory calibration, that is seemingly hard wired or baked into firmware in the screen is still way off (maybe some sign error?).
- Still no screen for content creation as long as local dimming cannot be deactivated, because the brightness levels on screen do not match the brightness levels in the created files (e.g. images or videos).
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How do I tell if I have a AOU or BOE or ? display panel?
Single-zone dimming feature and optional sRGB color space profile is going to make this laptop screen much more useful. I’m holding on to my blade 16, and believe this problem will resolve soon.
Razer, keep up the good work, and let make it better.
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Well, I tried going down the route of going through Razer support and it has been an epic fail so far.
They are trying to go to the easy route and want me to go back to Amazon and get it taken care of with them.
However, the issue is Amazon will not do an exchange or replacement of the unit and instead will only let me return it for refund and then re-purchase another one at a higher dollar amount because at the time I purchased the defective unit it was on a big sale (which means if i order it again it will be at a higher cost and who knows what defects I will get in the new unit).
If Razer doesn’t own up and try to repair this unit or allow me to send this in for replacement, I will just send it back to Amazon and be done with Razer laptops. Just will go with Asus instead (and I have dealt with their support for a hardware defect in the past and it was WAY better).
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You want to be able to do that for content creation. You only want multi zone dimming for playing games or watching movies .
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Guess I should keep pushing for upgrade as I prom[ted them to return my laptop for refund 7 days ago but no updates on that still and return window for me is lamost closed now. Im stuck with a bad laptop at this point if no upgrade is offered
Tell them you are severely disappointed in their service and if Razer will not resolve the matter you will be pursuing legal action in order to resolve it.
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Lenovo’s Legion 9i Mini-LED also has a single dimming zone option.
I am mystified by Razer’s lack of implementation for this.
Any update Razer? Razer advertised the 16 with mini-led as for creators so….?
There are many of us that have been affected by this issue and would like to join the class action lawsuit. Let’s make it happen!
Want me to leave a new comment when I get to start? I’m calling a few lawfirm to get this started
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I got my Blade 16 back from RMA repair and the good news is they fixed the trackpad, but they didn’t do anything about the Mini-LED panel after I mentioned I needed to also be replaced….
I just got a new ASUS Zephryus G16 2024 with OLED and am considering switching to it because it is still considerable cheaper than the 2024 Blade with OLED and has better speakers, battery life, thinner/lighter and so far as no defects/issues. However, it is less powerful, but honestly only by around a 15%-ish margin.
Also, I trust ASUS support/repair a little more than Razer. That being said, after spending days of going back and forth with Razer support and having them at least repair the trackpad they did come through, just still leaves a bad taste in my mouth about Razer QC and support. I get it, ASUS is larger and has a more well developed QC and support process, but still, since Razer charges a premium for their laptops you would hope they would come through better with everything.
I am really interesting in seeing the 2024 Blade 16’s with the Mini-LED panels are much better than the 2023 models...assuming they are better. I do like the dual 4k/1080p capabilities of it and the fact that the Mini-LED does get much brighter and vibrance than the 2024 OLEDs in the ASUS and Razer laptops with the Samsung OLED panels. However, also I noticed when testing with HDR content that the Mini-LED on the Razer display does over saturate and blow-out too much at times over the OLEDS
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They still havent got back to me, insane
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We NEED SINGLE ZONE DIMMING, this is absurd. I’m tired of exporting to my phone every 5 minutes just to check that colors are not completely horrible. We now have to bring a second monitor with us during travel just to get accurate colors on important projects. Please.
Bump for local dimming
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Well, since I just got mine on Amazon, I may go the razer return route, because while I can return the unit on Amazon Prime, there is no “exchange” option for a new unit. I would have to just re-order another blade 16 on amazon and now that crazy sale is over and its 1,000.00 more than the deal i just got.
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Scotty, you should be able to get them to give you a working one for sure. They would much rather give those of us who don’t want to deal with the crappy false advertising working models than have us take them to court and be potentially forced to fix it for every Blade 16 user. Way more expensive. I would get on Razer ASAP if you are going that route. Just be warned that it may take a month or more before they finally get things sorted.
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Just bought this laptop. several hours in, I am disgusted by this absolute piece of shit display module.
I used to work at a LCD display manufacturing company here in Korea and did optical design for LCD displays for quite a while. I can tell you that this laptop display is an piece of junk that would’ve NEVER would’ve even come close to the standards Apple has for their display devices (which our company also manufactured as an OEM).
The diffusion sheets, light guide panels and LED lenses used for this module seems to be poorly patterned and manufactured for cost reduction and to meet Razer’s packaging requirements. Moving the white mouse cursor around dark screens, I can visually observe the LED arrays turning on and off in within the module. Absolute joke of a display.
I guess having the single-zone mode would make things slightly better, BUT I don’t even think having all LEDs on in a “single zone” mode would make this display a good one. The lens design and diffusion sheets and patterning on the light guide panel used for this module are obviously shit quality, it does absolutely NOTHING to even out the optical distribution. I can clearly see the array patterns with my *bare eyes* LMAO.
I have never seen anything like this besides cheap direct-lighting LCD screens from China 10 years ago. Its really hard to type bright text on a dark background text editor with this display; almost unusable.
TBH I bought this on company funds so I have no choice but to get used to this garbage. If you do a lot of typing on dark backgrounds (programming) avoid this laptop. Probably fine for gaming though.
Can you check out my first post? My BOE panel looks like it's all horizontal stripes, anywhere there's alternating light and dark content, even in games.
There are many of us that have been affected by this issue and would like to join the class action lawsuit. Let’s make it happen!
Want me to leave a new comment when I get to start? I’m calling a few lawfirm to get this started
Class actions needs at least several people but I guess gathering more then 8 ppl is too hard since there is not enough here and also in reddit, I am still seeking lawfirms to solve this in personal level and it seems it can be easily done as long as you have time.;
Just bought this laptop. several hours in, I am disgusted by this absolute piece of shit display module.
I used to work at a LCD display manufacturing company here in Korea and did optical design for LCD displays for quite a while. I can tell you that this laptop display is an piece of junk that would’ve NEVER would’ve even come close to the standards Apple has for their display devices (which our company also manufactured as an OEM).
The diffusion sheets, light guide panels and LED lenses used for this module seems to be poorly patterned and manufactured for cost reduction and to meet Razer’s packaging requirements. Moving the white mouse cursor around dark screens, I can visually observe the LED arrays turning on and off in within the module. Absolute joke of a display.
I guess having the single-zone mode would make things slightly better, BUT I don’t even think having all LEDs on in a “single zone” mode would make this display a good one. The lens design and diffusion sheets and patterning on the light guide panel used for this module are obviously shit quality, it does absolutely NOTHING to even out the optical distribution. I can clearly see the array patterns with my *bare eyes* LMAO.
I have never seen anything like this besides cheap direct-lighting LCD screens from China 10 years ago. Its really hard to type bright text on a dark background text editor with this display; almost unusable.
TBH I bought this on company funds so I have no choice but to get used to this garbage. If you do a lot of typing on dark backgrounds (programming) avoid this laptop. Probably fine for gaming though.
Can you check out my first post? My BOE panel looks like it's all horizontal stripes, anywhere there's alternating light and dark content, even in games.
Anywhere with dark/light contrasts you will see the horizontal arrays. Its a darn joke lol. Razer will have to update Synapse to disable local dimming. This is almost unacceptable
Hi, I’m really intersted in this display but local dimming is a real deal breaker as I intend to use it for professionnal photo editing (when not playing games).
Any updates on this issue or the implementation of the option to let us switch local dimming off ?
thanks a lot
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Just bought this laptop. several hours in, I am disgusted by this absolute piece of shit display module.
I used to work at a LCD display manufacturing company here in Korea and did optical design for LCD displays for quite a while. I can tell you that this laptop display is an piece of junk that would’ve NEVER would’ve even come close to the standards Apple has for their display devices (which our company also manufactured as an OEM).
The diffusion sheets, light guide panels and LED lenses used for this module seems to be poorly patterned and manufactured for cost reduction and to meet Razer’s packaging requirements. Moving the white mouse cursor around dark screens, I can visually observe the LED arrays turning on and off in within the module. Absolute joke of a display.
I guess having the single-zone mode would make things slightly better, BUT I don’t even think having all LEDs on in a “single zone” mode would make this display a good one. The lens design and diffusion sheets and patterning on the light guide panel used for this module are obviously shit quality, it does absolutely NOTHING to even out the optical distribution. I can clearly see the array patterns with my *bare eyes* LMAO.
I have never seen anything like this besides cheap direct-lighting LCD screens from China 10 years ago. Its really hard to type bright text on a dark background text editor with this display; almost unusable.
TBH I bought this on company funds so I have no choice but to get used to this garbage. If you do a lot of typing on dark backgrounds (programming) avoid this laptop. Probably fine for gaming though.
Can you check out my first post? My BOE panel looks like it's all horizontal stripes, anywhere there's alternating light and dark content, even in games.
Anywhere with dark/light contrasts you will see the horizontal arrays. Its a darn joke lol. Razer will have to update Synapse to disable local dimming. This is almost unacceptable
Does your screen also have horizontal stripes like mine? What is your panel supplier? (You can view it in Device Manager-Monitor-Details-Hardware ID). Mine is a BOE panel, and the AUO panel has almost no such problems, or is almost unnoticeable.
Just bought this laptop. several hours in, I am disgusted by this absolute piece of shit display module.
I used to work at a LCD display manufacturing company here in Korea and did optical design for LCD displays for quite a while. I can tell you that this laptop display is an piece of junk that would’ve NEVER would’ve even come close to the standards Apple has for their display devices (which our company also manufactured as an OEM).
The diffusion sheets, light guide panels and LED lenses used for this module seems to be poorly patterned and manufactured for cost reduction and to meet Razer’s packaging requirements. Moving the white mouse cursor around dark screens, I can visually observe the LED arrays turning on and off in within the module. Absolute joke of a display.
I guess having the single-zone mode would make things slightly better, BUT I don’t even think having all LEDs on in a “single zone” mode would make this display a good one. The lens design and diffusion sheets and patterning on the light guide panel used for this module are obviously shit quality, it does absolutely NOTHING to even out the optical distribution. I can clearly see the array patterns with my *bare eyes* LMAO.
I have never seen anything like this besides cheap direct-lighting LCD screens from China 10 years ago. Its really hard to type bright text on a dark background text editor with this display; almost unusable.
TBH I bought this on company funds so I have no choice but to get used to this garbage. If you do a lot of typing on dark backgrounds (programming) avoid this laptop. Probably fine for gaming though.
Can you check out my first post? My BOE panel looks like it's all horizontal stripes, anywhere there's alternating light and dark content, even in games.
Anywhere with dark/light contrasts you will see the horizontal arrays. Its a darn joke lol. Razer will have to update Synapse to disable local dimming. This is almost unacceptable
Does your screen also have horizontal stripes like mine? What is your panel supplier? (You can view it in Device Manager-Monitor-Details-Hardware ID). Mine is a BOE panel, and the AUO panel has almost no such problems, or is almost unnoticeable.
Ah yes. I see its the BOE panel. I might actually ask for a trade-in if this is only a problem with BOE panels.
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