A defective pixel on an LCD screen. Bad pixels are often transistors that are permanently dead and appear as black dots or permanently energized and show up as white or colored dots ("hot pixels").

I have a Benq FP231W monitor that I've had for about a year now. It used to be pixel perfect, not a single bad pixel. But over the last few days I've noticed HUNDREDS of new bad pixels popping up ALL ...

Dead Pixels are a common problem that LCD screens face. When a pixel goes dead, the LCD monitor does not display the correct color output. In a dead pixel, all three sub-pixels are permanently off, ...

I guess I'm getting a 19" LCD monitor for Xmas (yeah, woohoo and all that) but I'm worried that my shiny, new toy will have bad pixels, which would disappoint me no end.<BR><BR>Is this still the ...

Josh Slade loves his new Apple laptop computer. He does, that is, when the speck in the center of the monitor isn’t driving him nuts. “It bothers me like a fly on the screen would,” said Slade, 22, a ...

LCD monitors contain millions of pixels, each one composed of three subpixels: red, blue, and green. When all three are on, a pixel looks white. Other combinations create other colors. A pixel can ...

You've just blown $2,000 on a sexy new flat-panel TV, and it thinks there should be a little black pimple in the middle of Tom Cruise's face. Good luck getting it fixed. That black spot is a dead ...

Liquid crystal displays (LCD) use a grid of definable points on a screen to display information. Used in many of Apple's products, including Cinema Displays, MacBooks and MacBook Pros, and the iPhone, ...

Apple's official internal policy on replacing devices with dead LCD pixels leaked this week, revealing that the company will replace an iPhone if it has just one dead pixel, while an iPad must have at ...

You've just blown $2,000 on a sexy new flat-panel TV, and it thinks there should be a little black pimple in the middle of Tom Cruise's face. Good luck getting it fixed. That black spot is a dead ...