One dead LED killed a working TV
ibobev
11 points
4 comments
October 28, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
Waterluvian
Meanwhile monitors and I’m sure many TVs specifically have a policy of up to X dead pixels not counting as defective for the sake of returns.
mschuster91
What utter LLM garbage is this? It's impossible to follow it along.
petra303
Either the led strip is in series and the whole strip goes out, resulting in a huge black strip across your tv screen, or the strip is in parallel resulting in a black or dark spot on your tv. Bypassing one bad led isn’t a solution. Replacing the faulty strip, or all of them, is the appropriate solution. The amount of labor to fix a tv is high enough that most people would be happy just to get a new tv and be on with their life.