Faking dead pixels
Posted on September 10, 2003 @ 10:07 in General
Last week I got a replacement for the defective Acer AL732 LCD screen that I had ordered, but that I actually never bought. It's a LG Flatron L1710B and as I have been informed by LG themselves when I called them on the phone, it's also a 16ms display. Apparently LG/Philips are making their own 16ms TFT panels and this monitor is one of the few available with this screen. There is, however, precious little information about that on the web, not even on LG's own website. It's a pretty good looking monitor with both a digital (DVI) and an analog input, plus some USB connectors in the base. The display is crisp and bright, and with Microsoft's ClearType rendering activated, text just looks sumptuous.
I had thoroughly checked the screen for dead (sub)pixels before bringing it home last week, so I was a bit shocked that a dead pixel appeared to have turned up this morning. I was looking at the WebWereld website (see partial screengrab in this post) and I thought I quite clearly saw a dead pixel in the empty space just left and under the site's main header. Luckily for me, the 'dead pixel' is just the remnant of some invisible text or maybe a supposedly invisible spacer image used for the layout of the site (you can select the surrounding area when you drag over it with the mouse). I was quite relieved to see the 'dead pixel' disappear when switching to another window. Yea for LG, boo for WebWereld :-)
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