Derrick
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There are very few things in life that can irritate the living daylights out of somebody the way a dead pixel on a computer monitor can. If you haven’t experienced it yet be very thankful! If you have, then find solace in the fact that there are a select few of us who have suffered the brunt of an ISO standard that sadly does account for a specific number of failed and dud pixels per million… The lottery of life just so happened to pick you to either suffer it, or if you are very lucky, got a good swap out deal with your supplier.
The reasons for swap-outs at retailers and wholesalers vary from country to country, shop to shop and sometimes are dependent on a friendly shop assistant or repair techie. The stories are varied as are the experiences of people trying to solve these issues. Online forums turn into psychotherapy sessions for people who managed to become part of the dead pixel brigade. Especially those who don’t get their monitors replaced are hard done by. “My dead pixel was just outside the 8cm radial from the middle of the screen, and thus could not be replaced or repaired without cost…” or “The specification on the warranty didn’t cover the little son of a b&$^# sitting just a centimetre from the left hand side of my screen, right there in my Photoshop tools panel!!!” are some of the things you can see people moaning about.
They have a right to moan! They deserve sympathy because they are bearing the brunt of the sacrifice needed to bring monitor costs down… The cheaper you go in certain manufacturing processes the larger the margin of error becomes sometimes. That margin of error requires some sort of shielding against replacement costs for dud screens. It is a silly argument, but a true one, hence the silly requirements before a swap-out can be done. It has to be in the middle says some manufacturers, it must be more than 3 dead or bright pixels per inch and so on. Yes, bright pixels also occur. That pixel that just doesn’t want to show all the colours it is supposed to. Always just a little off the beaten colour path…
Nobody is as sensitive about dead pixels as a man who had to suffer a really prominent little dead pixel for some time. You can spot those people easily. They are the ones who painstakingly check every dust particle on a screen out to see if it isn’t a dead pixel… You have seen them before, those folks who get quiet in the middle of conversation to look like they are staring right through their monitor into a parallel universe only to reach out to the screen with one finger as if trying to touch the face of an angel and then after discovering it is indeed just a dust particle faking a dead pixel, smile as if they managed to touch the face of that angel…
Have sympathy for those people, because one day you might be one of them…
The reasons for swap-outs at retailers and wholesalers vary from country to country, shop to shop and sometimes are dependent on a friendly shop assistant or repair techie. The stories are varied as are the experiences of people trying to solve these issues. Online forums turn into psychotherapy sessions for people who managed to become part of the dead pixel brigade. Especially those who don’t get their monitors replaced are hard done by. “My dead pixel was just outside the 8cm radial from the middle of the screen, and thus could not be replaced or repaired without cost…” or “The specification on the warranty didn’t cover the little son of a b&$^# sitting just a centimetre from the left hand side of my screen, right there in my Photoshop tools panel!!!” are some of the things you can see people moaning about.
They have a right to moan! They deserve sympathy because they are bearing the brunt of the sacrifice needed to bring monitor costs down… The cheaper you go in certain manufacturing processes the larger the margin of error becomes sometimes. That margin of error requires some sort of shielding against replacement costs for dud screens. It is a silly argument, but a true one, hence the silly requirements before a swap-out can be done. It has to be in the middle says some manufacturers, it must be more than 3 dead or bright pixels per inch and so on. Yes, bright pixels also occur. That pixel that just doesn’t want to show all the colours it is supposed to. Always just a little off the beaten colour path…
Nobody is as sensitive about dead pixels as a man who had to suffer a really prominent little dead pixel for some time. You can spot those people easily. They are the ones who painstakingly check every dust particle on a screen out to see if it isn’t a dead pixel… You have seen them before, those folks who get quiet in the middle of conversation to look like they are staring right through their monitor into a parallel universe only to reach out to the screen with one finger as if trying to touch the face of an angel and then after discovering it is indeed just a dust particle faking a dead pixel, smile as if they managed to touch the face of that angel…
Have sympathy for those people, because one day you might be one of them…