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Dead Pixels

How many dead pixels does your LCD monitor have?

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I've owned 5 lcd's and each one had at least one dead, stuck, or damaged pixel. My latest has 2 red stuck pixels but as long as they are not in the middle or middle left of the monitor I hardly notice.
My previous lcd that I just returned had one black, red, and blue all together in the middle left and it bothered me alot.
 
Just got a new HP 6910P notebook. One black one in the upper left corner is not a big deal. The red one I have about center of the screen pisses me off though. I'm trying to get it repaired but will probably just have to live with it.
 
4 LCDs. 0 Dead on the first 3. 1 semi dead (red still works) on the latest that I am hoping to get rid of for other reasons.
 
Dell 2405, 2 dead pixels in the very lower right corner area. At native res theses two dead pixels make the A and P in AM/PM look odd in the clock on my task bar. It used to really annoy me. Now I don't notice it. These pixels were not dead when I bought the monitor. I stopped using it about 3 months after I bought it(went back to crt). Then about 6 or 7 months later I started using it again for web surfing and there they were.
 
I've been really lucky and have had 0 dead pixels the on the last 2 LCD's I've bought. My 2001fp has a stuck green one, but it's hardly noticeable.
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I have 1 dead pixel in the upper left corner, at the very top of the screen. You can't see it with movies or games at all because that's where the black is.

You can't see it in Windows unless you get really close and look for it on a white screen.

I was going to return i, but I'd probably end up getting more or one in the center of the screen.
 
Copyright said:
Just got a new HP 6910P notebook. One black one in the upper left corner is not a big deal. The red one I have about center of the screen pisses me off though. I'm trying to get it repaired but will probably just have to live with it.
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My mom had a stuck red pixel on her 19" Acer. I was able to rub it out in about 30 seconds.. it had been stuck for over a year. I have never been able to fix any of mine. Go figure.
 
I had two LG L246WPs that each had a dead blue subpixel so I returned them last year.

I had a BenQ FP241W that had 0 dead or stuck pixels that was returned for other reasons. I also had an FP241VW that had two dead pixels returned last year. I have an FP241VW that had a stuck green sub pixel which I fixed by rubbing to the left of it. After a few times it unstuck permanently.

My original BenQ G2400W had a dead green subpixel at the top left and I replaced it. The new one is perfect.

My first NEC LCD2690WuXi-BK had one dead green subpixel and a number of stuck green subpixels at the top. The replacement I received from NEC has been 100% perfect.

I had a Westinghouse L2410NM that has been returned for repair that had no stuck or dead subpixels.

My old Dell 2005FPW has one ever so slightly dark pixel, but none dead or stuck.

As time goes by it seems that this problem is occurring less. I tend to be picky about where I get monitors from because I don't need a hassle returning ones with broken pixels. I've also become quite adept at using a heat gun to open them so that they look sealed if I return them to places that don't have quite as liberal a return policy.

Regards,

10e
 
5 lcds, only one has any... two greens on the left middle. I never notice them unless I look for them against a dark background.
 
I've been somewhat unlucky with LCDs. My history:

17" Hitachi - no dead pixels but horrible backlight bleed and a subtle vertical stripe where the screen was brighter
19" Acer - no dead pixels but very loud buzzing noise. Replacing or repairing it made no difference
22" WS Samsung - stuck on red subpixel (effectively a red-green 'dead' pixel).
24" WS BenQ - another stuck on red subpixel

Thankfully the pixels are barely noticeable; they hardly annoy me except that I know that they're there - hence the reason why I didn't return them. I'd be pretty much rolling the dice again hoping to get a perfect monitor (with my luck that's probably not happening). Buying local never was an option.

I'm surprised there are so many without dead pixels. Are most people just lucky or do a lot of people keep returning monitors until they get a perfect one (or go through them in stores prior to the purchase)?
 
SockMan! said:
I'm surprised there are so many without dead pixels. Are most people just lucky or do a lot of people keep returning monitors until they get a perfect one (or go through them in stores prior to the purchase)?
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Some people do return them til they get one without any dead pixels. Also, I'm of the opinion that some people simply do not notice them, (unless actively looking for them), if there is only one or two, and they are away from the center of the screen, or area they look at a lot. Especially on the larger high res screens. I doubt I would have noticed mine if they were not in the clock area of my taskbar. Move them up a couple of inches and I may not have ever noticed them.
 
I just had 6 stuck on black then i open google and they disapeared, this is on my 2 year old compaq laptop.
 
My KDS K-2626mdhwb had zero dead/stuck pixels, it's a thing of amazing beauty :D
 
20WMGX2, I thought I had a few until I took apart the panel and blasted the dust out, sealed it with masking tape, and now I have a perfect panel.
 
1024x768 Phillips
1400x1050 Dell Laptop
2560x1600 Dell
1920x1080 Samsung

8,426,032 working pixels

*knocksonwood*

For the Dell 3007WFP, I paid extra to ensure there were no dead pixels.
 
One red-sub pixel visible only on black and not very often. NEC LCD2690WUXi. I could buy either this model or another with SEVEN blue sub-pixels (so far for NEC QC for the EU market).

(Make this topic sticky!)
 
Destroid said:
What are you talking about spotpuff, getting 1 dead pixel is not bad luck.
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4 dead hard drives (2 deathstars, 2 Seagate)
1 dead motherboard
2 bad sticks of RAM
4 dead pixels out of 5 monitors
1 laptop that won't charge it batteries anymore
1 dead PSU

And to cap it all off my BenQ FP241WZ's screen spontaneously developed 3 rows of "dotted" dead pixel lines (hard to describe).

I know lots of people who buy things and have 0 problems and I get lots of dead hardware. I consider 1 bad pixel unacceptable and thankfully some manufacturers are agreeing now (Dell has a 0 bright pixel guarantee now) but only because consumers demanded better.
 
some ancient HyVision 17" LCD (like 2003 era) - 0 dead pixels
Gateway XHD3000 - 0 dead pixels
Eee 10" screen - 0 dead pixels
Compaq 15" screen - 0 dead pixels

crossing my fingers on my new monitor (which is currently in the mail), hopefully its also gonna have 0, else its going back
 
I will not keep a monitor with a dead pixel. All 3 of mine are dead pixel free (and came that way).

I tend to pay the brick and mortar premium for my monitors because pixels, and backlight bleed, can vary immensely from monitor to monitor and all the stores around here have 30 day exchanges\returns no questions asked.
 
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