Do OLEDs need to be transported in an upright position?

[Lost Angeles]

Do OLEDs need to be transported in an upright position as Plasmas used to be?

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Do OLEDs need to be transported in an upright position as Plasmas used to be?

Nope, they don't. They can be flat.

 

[simonali]

I was always under the impression that plasmas needed to be upright was because the glass screens were much less likely to break than if they were flat. LCD TVs never had glass screens and therefore didn't require the extra care, but OLED ones do, or the posher picture on glass ones do anyway...

 

[bigboss]

This is what's mentioned in Panasonic OLED TV's instruction manual:

"Transport only in upright position. Transporting the TV with its display panel facing upwards or downwards may cause damage to the internal circuitry."

 

[Lost Angeles]

This is what's mentioned in Panasonic OLED TV's instruction manual:

"Transport only in upright position. Transporting the TV with its display panel facing upwards or downwards may cause damage to the internal circuitry."

Thank you.

 

[simonali]

This is what's mentioned in Panasonic OLED TV's instruction manual:

"Transport only in upright position. Transporting the TV with its display panel facing upwards or downwards may cause damage to the internal circuitry."

Is that the same manual that you only get to read after the telly is already at your house?

 

[bigboss]

This is what's mentioned in Panasonic OLED TV's instruction manual:

"Transport only in upright position. Transporting the TV with its display panel facing upwards or downwards may cause damage to the internal circuitry."

Is that the same manual that you only get to read after the telly is already at your house?

There's always Google.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

This is what's mentioned in Panasonic OLED TV's instruction manual:

"Transport only in upright position. Transporting the TV with its display panel facing upwards or downwards may cause damage to the internal circuitry."

That's strange because the guy who bought my Panasonic just laid it flat in his car. And on a thread recently on AV Forums all the members said you can lay them flat in a car. Costco have them laying on the side on the shelves too. What does the LG manual say? I laid my flat to put the stand on like the manual stated.

 

[Oldboy]

Both of mine were transported laying flat when I collected them as it was the only it would get in the car! There is nothing in the manual of my 55930V that states it has to be transported in the upright position, can't say the same about my new 55C6V as it's yet to come out of the box.

 

[Samd]

Both of mine were transported laying flat when I collected them as it was the only it would get in the car! There is nothing in the manual of my 55930V that states it has to be transported in the upright position, can't say the same about my new 55C6V as it's yet to come out of the box.

As, rightly, your manual is in the box, any warning on 'uprightedness' should be clearly visible on the box.

 

[Oldboy]

Exactly right and no such warning is on the box of my 55C6V.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Whatever you do, make sure they are evenly supported, not resting on a point, like the transmission tunnel "hump" in your car.

That's a recipe for an expensive disaster. Don't asked me how I know...

And the answer is: ideally in the original packaging, upright. All TVs: LEDs, OLEDs, plasmas, even good old fashioned CRTs.

And if you're a Baywatch family, keep them level so the water doesn't run out of one end

 

[Lost Angeles]

My OLED arrived carried upright by two blokes.
There's nothing on the box or in instructions to say keep upright and it tells you to lay screen side down but supported by box to fit stand or wall brackets.

The instruction manual with it is rubbish.