We've heard all sorts of myths when it comes to fixing a stuck pixel on an LCD, and while the following methods shouldn't be expected to bring completely dead pixels back from the grave, commenters ...

LCD monitors contain millions of pixels, each one composed of three subpixels: red, blue, and green. When all three are on, a pixel looks white. Other combinations create other colors. A pixel can ...

Your laptop screen is made up of thousands of tiny dots of color, called pixels. Each pixel is comprised of three subpixels to create the image on your screen. These subpixels -- red, blue and green - ...

Dead pixels and stuck pixels are awful and a total pain to deal with. Your otherwise perfect display is now tainted with an area of black blotchiness; however, it may be fixable. Dead pixels ...

I have owned quite the plethora of electronics in my life. A commonality between most of these devices' screens is frozen or dead pixels. This is probably the most annoying thing about buying new ...

A defective pixel on an LCD screen. Bad pixels are often transistors that are permanently dead and appear as black dots or permanently energized and show up as white or colored dots ("hot pixels").

I recently got a good deal on a HP zr24w LCD monitor from MacMall. I think it has a single dead pixel (dark) in the upper left corner. Would you try to return or exchange the monitor for this reason?