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Which is, in my ever so humble opinion, unacceptable.

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I guess I'm not being "reasonable," given the problems inherent in the process, but perhaps massive LCD production just needs a lot more time to mature?

Well ok then, don't buy any LCD products, it's your choice. What is unacceptable for you is acceptable for others and the world only really cares about the majority especially when money is concerned.

Query: has this ALWAYS been a problem? If so, why didn't we see dead pixels in large numbers of consumer products until recently?

This has always been an issue in LCD displays. The reason maybe that you don't notice this problem is simply because you haven't been using or checking out larger LCD displays in the past few years. Anyone who has or had a laptop for instance will know exactly what we're talking about.

Again, I fully understand how avoiding dead pixels in the manufacturing process might be impossible -- I'm just saying that I don't see how it's acceptable to sell units with defective pixels.

Do bookstores not sell books that have folded pages? What about worn edges? When you buy a table or a chair is it 100% scratch free? Is the paintjob on every single model kit and toy 100% defect proof? I don't know which magic fairy world you live in, but the one I've been living in for over two decades has been thriving on selling units with "defective" parts.

 

[DDayton]

Do bookstores not sell books that have folded pages? What about worn edges? When you buy a table or a chair is it 100% scratch free? Is the paintjob on every single model kit and toy 100% defect proof? I don't know which magic fairy world you live in, but the one I've been living in for over two decades has been thriving on selling units with "defective" parts.

Methinks a more apt comparison would be a book with a 2mmx2mm hole burned through the center of it.

 

[teiresias]

DavidDayton sounds like the kind of people I encounter working at the IMAX theater - the kind that go into the movie, realize they've bought the ticket to the wrong show, sit through the entire movie, then come up to me in the theater, or someone at the front desk afterwards and expect to get a ticket to the movie they actually wanted to see for free.

 

[Fafalada]

Heck you can always buy a CRT TV, with dodgy geometry, bad alignment etc etc. Stuff isn't perfect, its just with LCD its more obvious and discrete

Most CRT monitors I used over the years have dodgy alignment and geometry that needs like an hour of tinkering before you get acceptable settings (well, by my standards) and in many units it's nigh impossible to properly align the picture at all.
In fact, we just got a batch of new Samsung monitors that have nasty Moire patterns visible at screen edges on certain colors - and that's on Every unit (it's not even considered a fault, because it seems to be the result of the very sharp/small dot-pitch).
And I found a bad pixel in one of them too (I didn't even realize before CRTs can have that kind of problem, though it's caused by completely different thing).

In the end it also matters how anal you are about things - I find the moire I noticed rather distracting, while other people in the company failed to even notice it until I pointed it out (and it's equally visible on every single screen we have).

 

[Squeak]

It's very irritating that good geometry adjustment isn't standard on all new TV’s and monitors, especially considering how many people use their TVs for videogames where it gets very visible with menus all over the screen.
Even with my 2003 Sony TV I had to enter a secret code and get into the service menu to get a tolerable result. I mean if their is settings for adjusting geometry, then why not make it foolproof and put it in the regular accessible menu?!