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| Thread ID: 74493 | 2006-11-24 21:29:00 | New Monitor | jcr1 (893) | PC World Chat |
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| 501847 | 2006-11-26 02:06:00 | Pretty standard for a non-warranted pixel failure, but I never buy a monitor without a "zero dead/bright pixel warranty" If it has no dead or bright pixels now as delivered, it will probably be OK though. The zero dead pixel warranty usually means a higher cost though, so it's horses for courses. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 501848 | 2006-11-26 03:14:00 | Thanks for that godfather. Its actually fine; no dead or bright pixels that I can see. This is my first experience with buying an LCD and like I said before, I thought the PC World review was a very good starting point. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 501849 | 2006-11-26 03:16:00 | Just as a matter of interest and out of curiosity. What 19'' monitors would have zero dead pixel warranties and what would the likely price be? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 501850 | 2006-11-26 03:38:00 | Here it is; "Hyundai sets limits as to the allowable number of pixel anomalies. Hyundai has adopted the following [255] pixel criteria to supplement the existing 3-year limited warranty. Pixel anomalies for warranty must be greater than two (2) bright pixels, or greater than five (5) dark pixels, or greater than a combination of five (5) pixel anomalies." Is that good, bad or standard:confused: Its crap. Utter crap. Would you stand for it on any other item? How about if your brand new car dropped a couple of cylinders? Or if your 5.1 speakers suddenly became 3.1? Or perhaps a jug that only hit 50 Celcius.? It should have been dismissed fron any PC World review based on this fact alone. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 501851 | 2006-11-26 04:15:00 | Not sure these days but about 2 years ago it was about a $50 premium for a zero dead pixel warranty. There is a failure rate with LCD panels, so the suspect panels get sold at the cheaper end of the market, but the failure rate in panel manufacture is improving, therefore the premium for a perfect panel may be getting less? A 19" panel has almost 4,000,000 hardware pixels. You can therefore appreciate the cost is higher for a guarantee of perfection. I note that Ascent are advertising that exact monitor with a zero bright pixel warranty (not stated as a zero dead pixel) for $475 incl GST. Atech are $479 incl GST with a zero dead pixel warranty. How do those prices compare? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 501852 | 2006-11-26 05:13:00 | Mine was $446 incl GST and courier to my place (although it was RD man that brought it last leg 15km's from town). | jcr1 (893) | ||
| 501853 | 2006-11-26 19:56:00 | Sounds like the dead pixel warranty is still in the $50 region then. | godfather (25) | ||
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