oh, it's beautiful. I was pissed about the stuck pixel, which was bright green and VERY annoying, but I worked it out and now it's perfect. I can actually play Bloodlines now (which is a fucking awesome game, by the way)! all I need now is a real video card so I can actually use the DVI...
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.
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Anyways, I bought my router through a similar selection method, so hopefully that works out for me as well...
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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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