Doesn't surprise me, theres very little profit in TV's.we love our 88 inch sony OLEDS. if they burnt out id'e have a stroke LOL. it seems there's less sets coming out with dead pixels another thing was is they needed to be calibrated that was a big thing at one time as well!! but no more. ive never had a display with pad pixels on it... the TCL i bought for my den is amazing for a cheap off brand i would put it up against one my our sony OLED'S. sony don't even offer an 88 inch OLED no more