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Old 06-02-2013, 11:59 AM   #9
BWinmill
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Originally Posted by TechniSol View Post
Back in the day LCD manufacturers tried to pass off displays with varying numbers of stuck pixels or even cluster sizes to increase yields rather than fix manufacturing processes. That always struck me as an upside down way of reacting to a problem with far more concern for profit than quality.
Consumers had a choice: they could buy higher cost LCDs where the vendor had a lower tolerance for stuck pixels, or you could buy a lower cost device where the vendor had a higher tolerance for stuck pixels. Since most consumers look at the price tags and ignore the details, the tendency was to go with the lower cost device and complain about the stuck pixels that their purchasing dollar originally said that they'd accept.
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