Is My HDTV Defective?
 

I recently (well, a few months ago,) purchased a 40" flat-panel LCD TV. It's last year's Samsung model, so I got a pretty good deal on it at Leon's.

I hadn't had any problems with it until today, when I encountered a bit of a problem. I had it sitting on the PS3 menu for a couple of seconds and I had my controller sitting near my TV, so I got up and went to get it. While I was there, I (for some reason,) decided to look at the TV and I noticed a red pixel, near the top of the screen.

I figured it was dead, so I was pissed. I left the room for a second and when I came back, the pixel was back to normal and I couldn't see it anymore. So, I guess it finally started working. And, during all of the time I played video games (an hour and a half, maybe,) I didn't notice it at all.

Is this something that I should worry about? I have a five year warranty on the TV and they said they'd replace it if anything went wrong with it.

I'm also thinking about selling the TV to my parents, so that I can buy a Sharp Aquos 42" with 1080p instead. So, I don't want to sell them a defective product.

I would not jump to conclusions based on output from a game console.

Keep checking it with other sources and see if it returns.

A dead pixel does make for a defective unit. It may also have become "stuck". Since you have an LCD, I imagine that you have a PC or VGA / DVI input. I'd run a pixel buddy program through the input and see if you can't unstick it.

But this is the nature of pixel based displays. They become stuck. They die. It's not defective.

You'll probably never get a replacement for a dead pixel better come to that reality pretty quick. Like josh says though you can most of the time fix the stuck ones with dead pixel buddy. Most set makers need like 7 or more dead pixels for them to consider the display defective.

this is why i hate LCD tvs, you always have to worry about the fucking pixels everyday.

14 for some warrenties. i heard some you need 21 pixels for the set to be considered defective.

heres my advice,
sell the tv to your parents, & by either a dlp or old school CRT tv. unless you really love lcd tvs. i know people that have some really nice Dlp tvs, better picture than lcd i think.

I am not a lawyer. That out of the way, if the number of dead pixels required for repair isn't written into the warranty, and they still refuse to repair it, you can bring them to small claims court.

if he does go too small claims court i want someone to tape the proceedings, it would be good.

There are inherent flaws in every technology we have. Just like with people, you have to pick the flaws you can live with. Some find DLP's flaws worse, some find CRT's worse.