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One wonders if they're able to get cheaper screens that have failed someone else's quality requirements?
by wlesieutre 7y ago
One wonders if they're able to get cheaper screens that have failed someone else's quality requirements?
- penagwin 7y agoNo that's a pretty standard well-standard, if you go to lenovo/dell/etc. they generally will say 1-3 dead pixels is within normal conditions. These guys are selling this at a loss (or near loss), they're trying to be upfront to lower the number of returns - and more importantly chargebacks and disputes.
- wlesieutre 7y agoHuh. I've only had one stuck pixel in my life and I was able to fix it by poking it with a pencil eraser. Guess I've been lucky. 3 in one screen is a lot.
- floatboth 7y agoDepends on how many pixels there are in total. I have two blue pixels on my 4K 28" display… if I'm able to see them, that means I'm sitting too close :D
- everdrive 7y agoIt's not that dead pixels are common, instead that it's hard to guarantee none will occur at n% across a population of screens.
- flipcoder 7y agowait, you can just poke them away?
- 0xcde4c3db 7y agoIt depends on what's actually wrong, but in some cases, yes. Sometimes it's possible to unstick a pixel by just displaying the right sequence of colors; poking the screen is essentially a more brute-force variation of that.
- wlesieutre 7y agoAnd I’d bet that won’t work anymore with screens that are behind a sheet of glass