22 Apr
2005
22 Apr
'05
5:36 p.m.
The rate is better than that. I'm not sure of the
manufacturer's spec,
but Newegg will accept returns if 8 or more pixels are bad. On a 21"
LCD (1600x1200), that is 99.9995% good. In practice, there are not
that many bad. The last several Samsung ones I've inspected had no bad
pixels at all.
Come to think of it, it has been a couple of years since I saw a bad pixel
on a flatscreen. The last was my old Stinkpad.
I've had an LCD monitor for eight years now. It
is a 14" 1024x768, which
was VERY expensive back then; now the equivalent can be found for under
$250. It had one bad pixel, for which blue was always on. This is *much*
more annoying than bad pixels that are stuck off
Tiny dab of black paint?
The normal failure mode for an LCD monitor is for one
of the fluorescent
tubes of the backlight to fail. These can be very expensive to replace
as they are usually not common tubes.
Cure the problem with those Woven fibre optic backplanes. OK, so they are
damn expensive as well.
I always thought the company that made them should have tried a shirt.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org