Asus PW191 19-inch LCD with zero bright-dot guarantee
By Marc Perton 
posted February 1st 2006 5:27PM
posted February 1st 2006 5:27PM
posted February 1st 2006 5:27PM
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I did not know what everyone else felt on the topic of this reflective film that is now on almost all the monitors. Don't manufactures know that not everyone is a computer geek and lives in their mothers basement and plays games 24/7?? Some people actually use this monitor in a lighted office with windows!!!!
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Can't "bright" mean, "stuck on"? A pixel that is stuck on is more of a nuisance than a "dead pixel" which is stuck off. I would think that their policy would stipulate that, though I don't know if this has been discussed before ;-P
You're right, Dan. "Bright" pixel would mean one thats stuck on. This means you could still have a dark, dead pixel that is stuck off, and they wouldn't have to honor a warranty.
funny, as i read this i notice for the first time a "bright dot" that is stuck on my display, that happened to land in the middle of the picture of the asus display as i paged down to read the article
Asus panels with zero bright dot policy will be replaced with any single pixel defect they are good about that.
my 2005fpw was, i thought, free of dead pixels, until i used the Dead Pixel Buddy app. then i realized i had like 5 or 6. but even if i search for them in normal use, i can't even come close to finding them. i think the era of busting a gasket over a dead pixel are essentially over.
My laptop resolution is that... and it's a 17" screen.
Doesnt seem like such a good resolution for a 19"?
IBM replaced a 17" LCD I bought for a computer at work.. out of the 12 I bought only one had a single dead pixel, but later on (after the warranty was done) I discovered a stuck pixel on one of the displays. It's stuck blue and it's way annoying.
Luckily my 20" Samsung and 14.1" IBM ThinkPad screens are perfect. Seems like a lot of people have trouble with dead pixels, I know I would have returned my samsung had it come with a dead pixel. It's ridiculous. I understand that they waste so much money and landfill space because of dead pixels but as a consumer I don't want to pay 850 dollars (as I did with the 20") and have it come with defects. that's crap. Bravo Asus, bright pixels are completely intolerable. Now if only here in the States we'd get the 0 dead pixel warranty Samsung gives to consumers in Korea.
Just in case no-one's seen this:
http://blog.gwax.com/2006/01/03/unsticking-stuck-lcd-pixels/
It worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend it if you're prone to seizures...
Concerning the "bright" versus "dead" pixel problem. "Dead" pretty much refers to either case, but LCDs work by blocking light, so a pixel that never "comes on" (because it's dead) will be bright all the time. A pixel that is dark all the time is stuck on.
But yeah, it sounds like Asus will fix either case, they just didn't want to use the ambiguous "dead" term. Bravo to them for not making us put up with clear defects.
I've always been at a loss as to why manufacturers opt to NOT increase the resolutions on desktop LCD monitors. I mean, most 17" and 19" monitors are at 1280x1024 - this monitor has the same resolution as most high end 15" or 17" laptops (and I've seen a fair share of 17" laptops with 1650x1080 resolutions like the 20" Dell, Apple, and HP monitors). I'm sure it has something to do with readability and the fact that laptop monitors sit closer to the face, making the higher resolution justifyable, but I for one would definitely buy a 17" monitor at 1650x1080 for my desktop, and I'm sure a good number of people would as well.
See, personally I'd prefer a lower resolution. When it comes to gaming 1280x1024 is perfect, and games run well at that resolution on my system. If I got an LCD that had a higher native res, and I had to interpolate, picture quality would suffer.
Got one dead sub-pixel (one stuck-on pixel) on my VX924. What made it worse was, a short while after I purchased it (my first LCD), Viewsonic upgraded the response time on their VX924 from 4ms to 3ms. Damn you Viewsonic.
I, too, am fine with this resolution. That's one thing that has turned me away from some other LCDs, just too high res for what I do. I like something my games can run native as well as the fact that Video/graphic/3d/web production is much easier when your res is near your audience's. Now working full res HD is another thing.
This LCD might just be for me.
Just remember that the warranty doesn't count for dead sub-pixels. For example a led that is always red or something like that. At least that was the case with my laptop. Perhaps they are willing to replace it but it isn't in the agreement for as far as I know.