Re: [OT] Dead pixels

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jim and Paul ...

Now I am secretly wishing I have more dead pixels I have not yet spotted.

I'll do this tonight .. fingers crossed!

Ho yin

At 11:34 05/05/2005, you wrote:
>Ho Yin Ng wrote:
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> > Just taken delivery of a new laptop a fujitsu-siemens.
> > It has got some very annoying dead pixels bang in the centre of
the
> > screen.
> > Apparently fujitsu-siemens won't swap it out unless there are
more than 5.
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>There's an ISO standard for what constitutes an "acceptable"
number of
>dead pixels. I think a cluster is treated as worse than individual ones
>spread over the screen, especially in the centre.
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> > How can I tell if there are more than 5? How big are each
individual pixel
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>Use a magnifying glass and switch between solid white, black, red,
>green, and blue filling the screen. You should be able to spot either
>stuck off or stuck on pixels. quite easily.
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> > ?
> > I wouldn't mind so much if it was to the side of the screen ..
but
> > bang in
> > the centre is  not good.
> > Any ideas? Also what is this I have heard about massaging the
pixels
> > to get
> > them back to life? Does this really work?
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>You could still reject under the sale of goods act...?
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>Jim
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