Dead pixels are the bane of anyone buying an LCD monitor, and while you’d think that finding one on a monitor you’d just bought would entitle you to a replacement, it turns out that most manufacturers have a threshold for the number of pixels that have to be defective before they’ll take action. Tom’s Hardware wanted to know how many, and polled 36 manufacturers to find out their acceptable death rate of pixels. No one will take a monitor back if it has just one dead pixel, but a few will make a replacement with as few as two or three, with one company (Lacie) saying it needed to see as many as 15 “scattered” pixels before it’d offer a replacement. Apple, surprisingly, refused to even answer the question.
