As you can see the red numbers on mine are there when I turn the TV off or on; therefore, they are permanent; as you can see by the smudges, I tried to use rubbing alcohol: the red characters are located on the inside of the paneling. Most likely a manufacturing marking that was supposed to be polished off and was missed by QA because when the TV is off you can't see it, unless you smudge it like I did. I also set my flash on and zoomed to the perfect focus at 5.3 optical zoom.![]()
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As you can see I bought a TV that will forever have an annoying red text in the upper left corner with no way to return it because it is past the return time.