I got a couple dead pixels, but only one is in an annoying spot. I am sure I will not even notice it after the “new” wears off. I am just going to roll with mine “as-is”

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Yes, I have two.  But since I only notice them when the screen is completely black, and only then, it’s not a big deal.

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ive got a couple too but 1 is staring me right in the face, i had a little trouble with the UMD latch too so im gonna get a new one today

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I think i’ll wait until Sony can produce something that is ‘brand new’ ie perfect, before i part with my money.

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Glad I haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, but I’m still planning on getting one.  So I think in the mean time I’ll stock up on a couple games and a 1GB memory stick.  I’m shooting to get one either next month (April) or sometime in May?

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Damn i hope mine doenst come with dead pixels.

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what is a dead pixel? i got a psp and an lcd and everyone always asks me if it has a dead pixel—what is that?

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Pixels are the very small blocks of light that make up the screen. A “dead pixel” is a dark spot in the screen.

In simple terms, imagine a wall full of light bulbs… and one is burned out.

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LOL! They must be using those good quality Sharp LCD screens!

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It is virtually impossible to create an LCD screen with no dead pixels. It is just an unfortunate side effect of the process of making these screens. The goal is to make these defects as minimal as possible.

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1st one I got from Best Buy had one big one and another small cluster of dead pixels. 2nd one I got from wal-mart only had one small spot on the left. I think I can live with that.

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This happpened to Nintendo DS too except Nintendo said that they fixed it immediately and issued new ones to unsatisifed customers.

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YA, when you’re trying to pump out as many LCD’s as sony is, I’m sure the production environment isn’t perfectly pure, which is what it needs to be for no dead pixels.  my friend bought two fo them, one had a couple dead pixels, the other one didn’t. guess which one he’s sending back :D

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I have 2 dead pixels….will sony or eb games alow me to return it?

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sony said they will allow for people to get new ones through them

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Well I have two coming. Which ever one has dead pixels goes back to Best Buy.

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++update++

EB Games let me exchange my psp for a new one and this one has no dead pixels.  They also told me that if you got your psp from sony, the only way to return it is if it has more than 3 dead pixels and you got the extended warrenty

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Thats pretty ###### of SONY, the DS didnt have any screw ups with the screens, and it had two times the chance to than Sony,  second, those ####### at Sony knew about this, how couldnt they, dont they test their ####?

Give me a ####### break, #### me once with the 3 hour battery life, shame on me, #### me twice, with the ####### screen, shame on you sony, shame on you…

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Lucky you!  I have a whole side dead on mine! I was like OMG WTF! Needless to say i was @$#%&*
(very mad).

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well i got my psp the first day it came out. and I just got a dead pixel. U’ll see it when the entire screen is white or VERY light color but while you are playing, its nearly impossible to see it. hmm and my battery is fine. playing twisted metal or darkstalkers I get a Good 4 or 5 hrs before the battery light starts to blink. the system had only been out for few days, I think it’s kind of soon to tell anything at the point. oh and my UMD lactch dont open when I twist my system…

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got one on my Japanese PSP new out of the box - lower edge, center. white dot.  not visible with game or video play back - only when screen is dark.

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wonder what is Sony doing here with these screens?!?  Manufacturers can easily make LCD panels this size w/o any defects at all, and it makes me wonder if Sony is going super-dirt-cheap by outsourcing to some 3rd party newbie LCD plant, or just picking up all sorts of scraps from wherever to toss into the PSP units.

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Anyways, what about dust under the faceplate in front of the LCD panel?!?

I’ve had my PSP for less than two months, and it already has dust under there!  Gads!!!

You’d think Sony would design the PSP to air-tight seal the LCD panel from this disaster!!!

Bad Sony, bad!!

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I am on my second psp now. The first one had four dead pixles and the second has black spots in the plastic on the screen. I think I’m gonna take it back and not get another one till sony decides to use some quality controll on thier products. It seem that they didn’t have any one inspecting these things before they went out.

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when i play the game ridg racers i have 5 small black dead dots on the screen.it sucks and every time i call to get a new psp they are all sold out

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Got my PSP on launch day. I have an inny winny teeny winny single white/discolored pixel on the upper right edge of the screen. Luckily it blends in with the white battery bar lining on the PSP home page. In terms of gameplay, I don’t notice this spec at all. I only notice it when the screen loads (Need for Speed Underground Rivals between races) and the screen goes almost entirely black. After hearing reports of mass rainbow pixel patterns on other PSP’s, I’m happy with my 1 little burned dot. I view my PSP as unique because of it, just in case someone with a pixel cratered screen tries to swap memory cards with my PSP and claim it as theres will immediately experience a head bashing! My PSP isn’t perfect but hey no one is. I know that there are a good bunch of PSP’s that are perfect, but at least I can tell mine apart and that little white mole isn’t bothersome at all while playing or watching movies, unless its a scary movie when everything is pitch black of course.

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i just got my psp from lik-sang, i have a green dead pixel near the middle, lik-sang wont take it back any ideas on what i can do?

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ur screwed man. Maby try Sony? I got 3 in the center of the screen. Sucks alot. White dots. When the screen is black there obvious. Oh ya. And my system crashes. Just like when the PC crashes. I need 2 take out the battery and put it back in then restart because the power switch dosent even work. Any have That problem?

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This is B.S.—got ripped off by those swindlers—250 $ and they don’t even have a clear screen—then I call Sony and they say they can’t do anything about this—and even if I return it they cannot promise there wont be any dead pixels on the screen—I understand that games are still playable—but come on thats f—-ckn expensive for a gaming system that doesnt even come with a game—I might be able to cope with this if the price was cheaper—they should have warned people before the initial marketing propaganda—im not buying that all pixel screens have white dots—thats BS—-Ive had plenty of lcd gadgets that are perfect—Dont buy into there lies!!I would advise anyone thinking of getting a PSP to wait a while—until they can fix this issue—dont blow 250$ and be taken for a smuck like me!!F—ck them

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Something strange on my PSP. It came without dead pixels, I played Dynasty Warriors…no dead pixels, but as soon as Play the movie Spiderman. Three dead pixels appeared. Did you guys saw this problem.

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about that crshing yes that happend to me once
when i was playing a game i alos have 2 dead pixals i think i will get to go back to eb tomarow to take it back yea but hopefully sony would replace it to…. i alos have a ds its great no problems at all no load times i really am starting to regret my psp puchase i mean its freakin awsome but it just dosent seem like a portable system with the load times and now tih all these problems….

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I have at about 3 readily seen dead pixels. Then there are MANY that are seen only when I am looking at a green or yellow screen. At least 20. I’m going to take the unit back to the store. I would expect a few, but this is just too irritating. At first I thought it was dust, but after I downloaded the dead pixel checker images (solid color jpegs that help you check the pixels) I noticed a lot. Not cool.

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I have 2 dead pixels, one in the lower right-hand corner and one half way up on the left-hand side. There not obvious at all, only when the screen is blank. The PSP is great other than that, but I do think the battery life is quite short. What do you think?

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Im on my 3rd psp and i got the system like 3 days ago!! On my 1st psp i had a dead pixel on the top which was barely noticeable but i worry alot so i decided 2 call up best buy and ask them wuts up with this. They said they were willing to exchange so i was like ok cool…so i went to best buy and got a fresh new psp so im like yay….This psp ended up having 11 pixels so im like WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and so i go back again and i exchanged again but this time i got 2 check 2 c if there are any dead pixels b4 i took it home. I found out that every single one i open at least had 1 dead pixel in it so i juss chose 1 dat had only 1 dead pixel and stuck with dat…

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I have a cluster of dead pixels in the upper left part of the screen, but I can only notice when the screen goes completely black… I was watching Resident Evil Apocalypse initially, and when I first seen them, I thought they were stars! :/

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The #### sony made it again, I have returned the fifth psp i got in five days to circuit city, all of them had dead pixels, then i went to gamestop and got one, it had a bad pixel too, then to best buy and it was sold out. pretty discusting right ?

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I Pre-Ordered My PsP Months Before It’s Release.  I Was The First Out Of My Friends To Buy One. So I Didn’t Realize It Wasnt Suppose To Sound Like It Was Vomiting Everytime It Was Reading A UMD. And I Was Also Told, And Read, About The Dead Pixel Issue, And How They Are Ok. Well I Hate To Say It, But It’s Not. I Don’t Know How Many People Read This Stuff, But If You Are Reading This, And Havn’t Purchased One Yet….DONT! I Bought The PsP, 4 Games, And The 1gb Card. 1 Out Of The 4 Currently Work, And I Have Been Warning EVERYONE. Yeah, I Bought The Warrantys On The PsP, And Games…BUT WTF! I HOPE SONY KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING WITH THIS BIG PS3 LAUNCH, IF IT IS ANYTHING LIKE THE PsP…. THEY ARE IN TROUBLE

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Is there any way of getting those dead pixels off the screen if anyone noes please tell me.

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Muahahaa.. I don’t have any…

I never noticed any YET… I may have some…

Also, just to tell you, My dad came second in line in Markville Mall in Toronto. (lucky).

It is unfortunately that they had to rush to send these to the US.

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i put screen cover over psp and it works fine w/ dead pixels but my problem is the back of the psp wen i kinda push in on it, it creeks and stuff, and wen i start the psp up it sounds like a broken ps2 trying to read a disk,,,but wuts most annoying is the memory card slot always opens it cant stay shut even if i lock it in place it F’n OPENS!!!!!!

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hi everyone and sorry to hear about ur misfortune.the psp is a great machine but dead pixels whats up with that and the price this is just mad. I mean you would expect to get a psp that works 110% for that price i mean take me i have gone through 5 yes 5 psp which all have dead pixels and getting my 6th psp tommorro(hope it dosent have dead pixels) but i have read somthing on the net that might help its a software which is loaded on from ur memory card which is a video which flashes alot of colours and this method is meant to unstick the stuck pixels or dead pixels.NOTE YOU HAVE TO LEAVE IT ON FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF HOURS, ONLY WORKS 60% OF THE TIME, LAST THING THIS SOFTWARE MAY ALSO INCREASE DEAD PIXELS SO ONLY USE IT IF THERE IS 2 OR MORE PIXELS. IF U WANT THIS SOFTWARE THEN EMAIL ME AND I WILL SEND IT TO U. HOPE THIS HELPS

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Hey I did not see this coverd but.. I have like 3 white pixels 1 is really annoying when watching a movie or playing a game. IS a white pixel dead or is it stuck ?? Thanks sorry to sound stupid…lol

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It probably is a dead pixel.

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I sent mine in to SONY and they are just going to give me a new one in replacement. They said if I had a problem try it for a few weeks AGAIN then send it back and we will send you a new one AGAIN. I said I did not pay for this and they told me that the pixel problem is not covered under the warrenty BUT you have a 1 year warrenty if you do not like your PSP you can send it back and they will give you a new one. I have been a fan of SONY for along time with the PSone and PS2 this has really made me feel different toward SONY. The support was very rude and was making sure I did not drop it or anything. I will post back when I get mine in thanks for the reply..

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i just like to say that the ds had probs like this as well because 1 man on the internet bought a ds and he didnt drop it or touch it . 5mins of playing on it the screen just switched off and wouldn’t turn back on.  i am hoping to get my free psp in post soon. even though they are not released here till september 1st 2005 they had one on display in dixons in cheshire oaks what u could play with . it was hard though becasue it was wired up to alarms and the slitest move made the alarm go off. lol.

from what i have seen it looks quite good but i dont want dead pixels. maybe 1 or 2 but not andy if poss.  if i dont get my free psp i will get 1 for xmas oh and every1 here thinking i want a free psp go here
http://www.techgear4free.com/?r=11984 http://www.techgear4free.com/?r=11984
they deliver worldwide.

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i bought my psp and it had 1 white pixel, so i took it back and got another with 3!! and they take about an hour to show! im thinking about just taking it back for a refund of 250 pound!

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I have around 5 white pixels on my PSP are these dead pixels or stuck pixels.

What is the difference? please help

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I bought a PSP and returned it the next day.  The screen did have more than 2 dead pixels (one that was quite visible in the center) however, the biggest problem was with the plastic outer-surface of the screen: there were about 20 divots or bubbles in the plastic… which looked like someone took a pin and poked holes on the surface.    You can only see them at an angle when the screen is off.  When the screen is turned on, the divots refract the light making it look like the screen has stuck pixels.

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Hey I have the same problem my power switch doesnt work but i cant turn it on at all i dont know how I took out the battery the first time it wouldnt turn off I need help on what to do

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I love my psp get over the dead megapixel thing u big babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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is a black pixel that doesnt appear in the menu but does in a video file or game, a stuck or dead pixel??

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I have two light spots on psp they look like dead pixels but they are white?

W=Are thses dead pixels

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