Yamaha98 said:
Good for you princess. Check out the ISO standards that provide acceptable pixel & subpixel defects for consumer electronics. You will find that many manufactures abid by the Class 2 level rating, which gives them usually less than 4 defects before they will accept an replacement. A Class 1 is essentially an "no-defect policy" that few manufactures fall into, if any.
The majority of the bitching in this thread about a single lit/unlit pixel sounds like an excuse to take advantage of Nintendo's genorisity. My 4G, 20G ipod has a dead pixel on the edge of the screen as does my 15" HP laptop from 2yrs ago but the world is not gonna crash here- its technically impossible to NOT have a issue w/ LCDs. Let it be, grow up.
I wish people would quite comparing dead pixels on a portable to dead pixels on laptops.
The average laptop screen has 1000+ times the number of pixels as the average portable screen. Therefore 1 or 2 dead pixels on a portable is a big deal, while 5 or 6 dead pixels are probably not even noticeable.
Apples to oranges.
My first GBA SPs 1 dead pixel. My second had 3 stuck pixels, and the third had 1 dead pixel.
In two of those cases the stores exchanged them. The first one could not be exchanged because it was the Limited Edition NES style and the store had none of those left. Nintendo of Canada was happy to exchange it for me.
~S-Wind
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