• SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Expecting every display to not have dead pixel or 2 is incredibly wasteful. So many perfectly good monitors and TVs would end up as scrap if the manufacturer had to pull every single one. Mountains of ewaste.

    This expectation of excessive perfection and uniformity is really damaging.

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        11 months ago

        It’s literally not noticable if you’re looking at it from a reasonable distance. I’m not talking about a cluster.

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            11 months ago

            It’s funny how everyone pretends to give a fuck about environmentalism until they’re faced with the most minor of minor inconveniences.

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              11 months ago

              I like how you’re trying to tie manufacturers selling defective items at full price to environmentalism as if that makes the practice okay.

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              11 months ago

              The conversation is actually about manufacturer greed (w.r.t sale prices going past $1000) and audacity to ask customers to pay that much for a less than perfect (their marketing material, theur words) device.

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                11 months ago

                I hate greedy corporations as much as the next guy, but manufacturers are not going to up their QC to include single dead pixels and take a hit to their profit margin. They’d increase prices, by a lot.

                Maybe there’s a market for displays that meet this standard for the nitpickers, and sell the ones that fail at a discount, but they’d definitely be a premium.

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      11 months ago

      If we can’t expect excessive perfection then manufaturers should sell it at 70% discount.

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      11 months ago

      Dead pixel is a dealbreaker. Scuffs on the casing, sure. Not a dead pixel. Maybe on a large 4K TV I guess.

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        11 months ago

        Not to mention a dead pixel can be indicative of future failures. My brand new Pixel 7 Pro had a single dead pixel. I didn’t notice until I finished setting it up (or maybe it didn’t show up until then). Being lazy and not wanting to set it up again, I decided to ignore it. It was at the bottom, out of the way.

        A month or two later I woke up one day, checked notifications and took my horror that dead pixel had upgraded to an entire line at the bottom. Enough was enough, I missed my window for a store return but was able to get a RMA setup. Replacement is going strong, no dead pixel and none showing up.

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        11 months ago

        One or two dead pixels on a 4k display, probably not a problem. I likely won’t notice. Bright pixels though and it goes straight back. Those will annoy me the entire time I own the device.