The gases that power the picture cannot be refilled, but problems such as dead pixels, screen burn, and other screen distortions can generally be repaired.

A ten-thousand-bit digital corpse of the world, shedding dead pixels in the mind's eye?

Of those, a dead pixel never shows light, and a stuck pixel always shows light (typically red, blue or green), when the device is active.

Stuck pixels are often incorrectly referred to as "dead pixels", which have a similar appearance.

Some screens come with a leaflet stating how many dead pixels they are allowed to have before the owner can send them back to the manufacturer.

It is best known to end consumers for defining a series of flat-panel display "classes" with different numbers of permitted defects (or "dead pixels").

That said, if there are any dead pixels on the ACD I received, I certainly couldn't find them.

Other companies have been known to tolerate as many as 11 dead pixels in their policies.

It feels nice, but man - have you gotten an LCD with dead pixels in any recent memory?

An quick test of Pixel Tester 2.11 made sure that I had no dead pixels, much to my delight!