you have GOT to be fucking kidding me. I bought a new 19" flat panel, got it, it had two dead pixels, I was gonna just keep it and forget about it, but I returned it. They were discontinued adn out of stock, so I couldn't get a rplacement. Now I have no 19"flat panel. And you're saying all I had to do was give it a rub down?
wellll, it all depends on whether you had a dead pixel or a stuck pixel. stuck pixels happen when one of the subpixels gets stuck in the on position, so that you have a bright red, green, blue, or white dot. by massaging the problem area or running a program which cycles through all the colors (or both, which is what I did), one hopes to reset the cycle. with a dead pixel, though, all three subpixels are permanently turned off, so you get a black dot, and as far as I know it's not fixable.
The terminology is interchangeable. There are some tech heads who get pissed off when someone says "dead pixel" because of whatever aesthetic reasons, and they insist on people saying "stuck" in their presence. Logically, why wouldn't an "all off" problem be fixed by the same means as an "all on?" I hate to say it, but massaging the problem area does sound like voodoo troubleshooting.
I still support CRT overall...It's technology that's been around for over a hundred years, it's being improved daily, it's still cheaper (for now...) LCD only has the advantage in form factor.
according to you it is, but manufacturers also distinguish between the two, so I'm going with not interchangeable. also, the difference between "dead" and "stuck" is not the difference between "all off" and "all on". dead is "all off", yes. not receiving signals. stuck ones receive signals but don't change.
and it sounded like voodoo to me, too, until it worked. I ran the cycling program for hours and it did not go away until I used the eraser of a mechanical pencil and physically touched the screen. it is liquid crystal, after all, and you can see for yourself that things change when you touch it.
The fact that manufacturers are allowed to distinguish a number is bullshit in itself. "Stuck," "Dead," the fact that your product works other than as advertised and your customers can't do a thing about it means that you are an asshole and someone should be suing you, yet liberal law interpretations are working in your favor. The first time I heard a division in terminology was when Nintendo fanboys started to fight with Sony customers.
The LCD on a dollar store calculator will display pretty colors if you press on it. Pressing just a little too hard is generally considered a bad idea. Actually, pressure on any random screen of any kind is generally discouraged. Honestly, it's even a discouraged event in the random warranty-voiding liturature I've become more than familiar with. I'm talking about things along the line of "If something happens, don't blame us for your apartment complex catching on fire if you do this, just don't press on you LCD because we will not be held responsible for breaking it."
I bought a new 19" flat panel, got it, it had two dead pixels, I was gonna just keep it and forget about it, but I returned it.
They were discontinued adn out of stock, so I couldn't get a rplacement.
Now I have no 19"flat panel.
And you're saying all I had to do was give it a rub down?
piss.
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I still support CRT overall...It's technology that's been around for over a hundred years, it's being improved daily, it's still cheaper (for now...) LCD only has the advantage in form factor.
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and it sounded like voodoo to me, too, until it worked. I ran the cycling program for hours and it did not go away until I used the eraser of a mechanical pencil and physically touched the screen. it is liquid crystal, after all, and you can see for yourself that things change when you touch it.
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The LCD on a dollar store calculator will display pretty colors if you press on it. Pressing just a little too hard is generally considered a bad idea. Actually, pressure on any random screen of any kind is generally discouraged. Honestly, it's even a discouraged event in the random warranty-voiding liturature I've become more than familiar with. I'm talking about things along the line of "If something happens, don't blame us for your apartment complex catching on fire if you do this, just don't press on you LCD because we will not be held responsible for breaking it."
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