LCD monitors (was Re: tube technology and EMP)

[William Donzelli]

> The rate is better than that.  I'm not sure of the manufacturer's spec,
> but Newegg will accept returns if 8 or more pixels are bad.  On a 21"
> LCD (1600x1200), that is 99.9995% good.  In practice, there are not
> that many bad.  The last several Samsung ones I've inspected had no bad
> pixels at all.

Come to think of it, it has been a couple of years since I saw a bad pixel
on a flatscreen. The last was my old Stinkpad.

> I've had an LCD monitor for eight years now.  It is a 14" 1024x768, which
> was VERY expensive back then; now the equivalent can be found for under
> $250.  It had one bad pixel, for which blue was always on.  This is *much*
> more annoying than bad pixels that are stuck off

Tiny dab of black paint?

> The normal failure mode for an LCD monitor is for one of the fluorescent
> tubes of the backlight to fail.  These can be very expensive to replace
> as they are usually not common tubes.

Cure the problem with those Woven fibre optic backplanes. OK, so they are
damn expensive as well.

I always thought the company that made them should have tried a shirt.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org