How common are dead pixels these days?

Not in my experience.

In the last 2 years or so I have owned:

2 x Samsung 226BW
2 x Dell 2407 (a04 and a03)
1 x Dell 2707

And I'm yet to experience more than one/two dead pixels (touch wood). The Samsung panels developed 3 lazy pixels (2 on one monitor) after a very short time but they were easily fixed.
 
Its always a risk no matter what TFT you buy but I seem to have been lucky in my household. So far....

OcUK Value 19" (1 bright/lazy pixel)
Phillips 20"- none
NEC 20" wgx2- none
HP 24" LP2475w- none

....all bought within the last 3 years

So whether this means its getting better or not I'm not sure, as all over the net there will still be people with a bad experience no matter what model TFT it is.

Logic suggests that as the manufacturing process gets more advanced/robust it will cut down on duff panels but I haven't seen any figures to back this up.
 
Well i have had 50/50,

Bought in the last 3 years.

Viewsonic VP930 , 2 dead
Viewsonic VP930 none
Hazro W24 none
Hazro w41i none
LG 20" cant remember the model none
Hazro W26i several, maybe 8-9


Ive got an HP 2475 arriving tomorrow ill edit this to let you know.
 
I went to return a monitor under the DSR but they let me test monitors there until I got one without any stuck pixels, and no extra charge :D
 
jgreen726 said:
Well i have had 50/50,

Bought in the last 3 years.

Viewsonic VP930 , 2 dead
Viewsonic VP930 none
Hazro W24 none
Hazro w41i none
LG 20" cant remember the model none
Hazro W26i several, maybe 8-9


Ive got an HP 2475 arriving tomorrow ill edit this to let you know.
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My HP has a cluster of dead pixels, maybe 5-8 pixels!!
 
I've been pretty lucky-

LG 32LC2D HDTV - zero dead pixels
Dell 2007WFP - zero dead pixels
Samsung 172T - zero dead pixels
Samsung 913B - zero dead pixels
some other old samsung - zero dead pixels

I did have a 19" Digimate with load of flashing pixels but that was just a fault and it went back.

Law of averages says I'll get some on my next screen.
 
I've been through 4 LCD HD-TV's and 6 LCD monitors, only had 1 defective pixel on my first HD TV.

My ageing PSP has 3 though.

But i usually buy the more expensive/bigger displays.. you're a lot more likely to get dead pixels on cheaper monitors and TV's in comparison to dearer/quality stuff, but still pretty unlikely overall these days.
The higher end displays have better quality control. It's extremely unlikely you will get a single dead pixel on a high-end Sharp, Philips or Sony HD-TV (for instance), or a quality 24" or 30" monitor, even though they have way more pixels.
 
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only had one and its a stuck pixel on red on my laptop, but that thing is a piece of **** :( got it as a replacement from an insurance company for my beast one, said it would be same of better spec, thats debatable, slightly and its crap with the games i used to play amazingly on my old lappy, but apart from that ive had no dead pixels :) had a green stuck one on my SM2232bw but poked it and it was fine ;)
 
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