Dead pixel

[Rcb]

Hi.

My 17" 16ms TFT just arrived from Aria, i'm very very pleased with it, great for gaming and a great picture!

The only problem is i've just noticed one dead pixel which is annoying. Is there any way to try and get rid of them? I could live with it but i'd rather it not be there

Cheers

[nvening]

no way to get rid of them i they will prob not refund it

[ACiD303]

whats the "rubbing" trick some people go on about?

[Bruno]

Not the 'rubbing trick' that our teachers at school said made you go blind (hence the dead pixel would be of no consquence)?

[schmunk]

whats the "rubbing" trick some people go on about?

It does work - with my Bro's Aria 17" he has a permanently 'on' sub-pixel which can be fixed by rubbing it. It occasionally comes back, but it better than nothing.

[Thorsson]

Allegedly rubbing sometimes works. But keeping on rubbing it will make it drop off...

[nvening]

what does rubbing it do?

[skuzgib]

Sometimes it will get rid of the dead/stuck pixel.
I've got one on mine , but it doesn't go away.
Looks like you may have to live with it as they won't replace it.

[nvening]

i think they should replace them, they gave him a falty product

[Bruno]

It's a bit poo but they won't replace it as it's a ISO Class II TFT (Class I are not consumer TFT's, they are normally class II) - it's a bit crap that you can't be sure your going to get a flawless one, one of the things that (if I had cash) would worry me about getting one.

Here's the info. on what can be 'dead':

Class a) Pixels always lit b) Pixels never lit c) Sub-pixel: Always lit;
never lit or blinking.

- a b c
I 0 0 0
II 2 2 5
III 5 15 50
IV 50 150 500

[Stoo]

they won't though, the best you can try to do is get a refund under the 7 day distance selling act, then order another one a bit later, but there's no gaurantee you'd get one free from dodgy pixels.. there's a reason why they're cheap..

http://www.aria.co.uk/tft-dead-pixel-info.asp

[schmunk]

i think they should replace them, they gave him a falty product

The problem with TFTs is that the failure rate of pixels / sub-pixels is so high that having a 0 dead sub-pixel policy would make TFTs much higher priced than they are now.

It's like having a no-flaw policy with diamonds... Flawless diamonds of any size are vastly expensive. Most diamonds, even small ones, are of SI clarity - i.e. they have flaws that are visible to the naked eye.

[schmunk]

It seems we've all posted much the same thing... I'm just slowest!

[ACiD303]

Class a) Pixels always lit b) Pixels never lit c) Sub-pixel: Always lit;
never lit or blinking.

OK, all of them would annoy me. But a Blinking Pixel?!?!? ARGH!

Thats like dead bodies twitching. Cant stand 'em.

[skuzgib]

If you send it back under distance selling, you'll probably have to pay the postage back...

[shiato storm]

you could just fork out a bit more for a quality tft instead and save yourself the agro. my bro has an LG 1710 and after a year+ still faultless...
though it was expensive it serves him very very well.