OMFG I'm the lucky one who got the dead dot in LCD!!!

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:27 am

2 white dots near buttom-left corner of the screen. Although is not obvious to see dots in gaming but very obvious to see the 2 dots when watching spiderman2 movie. Shit man, thinking to refund it or bring it to Sony for warranty.

Kai Regular Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 159

a lot of ppl have dead pixels dont feel left out Wink

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:35 am

but i got 2, not just 1 dot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:40 am

man that sucks, i got none Very Happy

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:41 am

dude..i have 1..and some ppl on gamefaqs..have up to 8 dead pixels..calm down..it could be a speck

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:04 am

my friend said the white dot caused by a light reflection of dust inside the screen, but the two white dots in my psp seems not having any color so i think it's dead.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:04 am

Man I got 2 dead pixels as well as 5 black spots(Only on black screen) so I would be happy with 2 little white pixels.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:04 am

i got best buy extended warrenty, covers pixels so its work it.

Kai Regular Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 159

i have had my PSP for nearly 2 moths and dont have 1 dead pixel

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:16 am

I have 1 little white dot in the near left..and it only shows up ..with dark colors...like black rae on the background...dont know if its is a dead pixel or dust....i wont open the psp to check ot..but i will really like to know

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:28 am

i have one, bottom left.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:49 am

Guys, I already confirmed how to check the difference of dust and real dead pixel (i compare my dead pixel psp to his dust psp)

Dead Pixel: a bright dot (especially really bright in dark screen)

Dust: a grey dot over the screen but is not that bright, hardly notice comparing to dead pixel

The size of dead pixel is bigger than dust dot (in my comparison)

Shit man I'll go to refund my dead pizel psp tomorrow, hope i can get another one

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:50 am

Duende @ Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:16 am wrote:

I have 1 little white dot in the near left..and it only shows up ..with dark colors...like black rae on the background...dont know if its is a dead pixel or dust....i wont open the psp to check ot..but i will really like to know

sounds like dust

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:52 am

OMFG, I just turned the PSP off and all the pixels went black............. Confused

Then I turned it on and every pixel is a winner............. Very Happy

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:54 am

Andy_McNob @ Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:52 am wrote:

OMFG, I just turned the PSP off and all the pixels went black............. Confused

Then I turned it on and every pixel is a winner............. Very Happy

dead pixel is not black, is white and bright

Kai Admirer Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 381

"Red, blue or green spots (bright spots) or black spots (dark spots) may appear in certain locations of the LCD screen. The appearance of such spots is a normal occurrence associated with LCD screens and is not a sign of a malfunction."

Translated, that means Sony and its retail friends get to decide when a PSP screen is defective enough to merit replacement.

Kai Regular Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 94 Location: Sweden

Sony have already said.

"We do not excange PSPs with broken pixels."

There are stores in US that have several hundred returned PSPs with 1-10 dead pixels, and they say to customers, Sony wont fix them.

Kai Admirer Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 381

if my psp had broken pixels tho, id make sure the buttons were broken or something before returning it :d

Kai Regular Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 94 Location: Sweden

Stores are beging to have problems with sales of PSP, because all customers want to check the screens before buying..

I would check too.

VideoGamesPlus have now STOPPED checking for dead pixels on PSP, because Sony won't replace the ones with dead pixels..

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:31 pm

I find it interesting to see that Sony has adopted this standpoint, but not surprising at all. They cannot be expected to fix PSPs with minimal ammounts of dead pixels (1 to 3 or 4). If however the number is beyond that I would expect them to. The number which somone else had mentioned (1-10) is the standard for LCD monitors. Due to the significantly lesser number of pixels I would hope that sony would be reasonable and scale their standards as well, for the dead pixel density with 10 on a PSP screen versus 10 on a 17in. LCD would be terribly askew. I personally have two on my screen, one white and one black, but I can live with it. Am I disappointed, a little, but Im a materials engineer and I know the manufacturing process decently well, and I know that some are inevitable and that you simply cannot replace every single one, this would drive the price quite high. I would estimate that about one in 3 PSPs will ship with at least one dead pixel and that would significantly hurt the yields. Overall, I guess if you have a few dead pixels, it sucks, but deal with it and dont complain. However if you have more than five I would be on Sony to seriously replace this. Sony wont replace units if everyone with one or two comes running to their doorsteps looking for a replacement. But the statistical anomally of 5 or more would merit replacement in my eyes (it would be roughly 1 in 1000 units by my estimate). I would imagine that Sony will develop a standard number of acceptable pixels once they get done worrying about the logistics of the launch.

Thats my 2cents
Matt