Would you return a monitor for 1 dead pixel?

[0roo0roo]

bring a laptop and inverter in your car when you buy lcd. check in parking lot

 

[trmiv]

Depends where it is at. I bought a monitor and had a dead pixel in the center where my eyes always are. I tried to ignore it at first, but it drove me nuts so I returned it and got one without any dead pixels. I wouldn't be bothered by one in the corner though.

 

[needalife]

Well actually, Im noticing it during loading screens for my game... Its bothering me but gonna try to run a dead pixel fixer for a day and see..

 

[mugs]

It'd depend on the location, the type of broken pixel (stuck or dead), and what the store and/or manufacturer's dead pixel policy is. I used a monitor for at least a year that had 3 solid lines of dead pixels on. They split the monitor into 4 equally sized horizontal bars. That's a total of over 3000 dead pixels, and it honestly didn't bother me. I also didn't pay for that monitor, so I might have cared if I had.

I buy cheap monitors, I don't expect perfection in a $100 17". But so far I've never had a dead pixel on any monitor I've purchased (I think I own 11 LCDs now?). I had one turn pink and get very washed out (a 4 year old Dell refurb) and the one with the lines, but so far I've had great luck with LCDs.

 

[James Bond]

I think that I would probably stare at that one pixel all day, so yeah, I would return it.

 

[cdmccool]

My OCD would not allow me to keep it!

 

[SpunkyJones]

If I cant see it, i wouldn't care.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Try massaging it out first. If that doesn't work and you're inside the 30 day return period, hell ya I would.

 

[lupi]

Depends on location/color.

 

[KK]

I have one on my 24" acer thats located about 1 1/2 inch up from the bottom and about 7 inches from the right. Its stuck on green and shows up pretty good on a black screen. I thought about taking it back but microcenter is a good 45 minutes away.

 

[Shawn]

Dead and at a corner, probably. Stuck and towards the center, definitely. I have a laptop with a green stuck pixel towards the bottom center and it still bothers me, even after 4 years. I always have a greenish background so that I don't see it.