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LCD Monitors with Dead Pixels/Columns for Sale?
The Other White Meat asks: "I want to put a computer in my kitchen. For space reasons, I want to make it an LCD; a 15" screen would be perfect. This monitor is going to be exposed to harsh conditions (flying food, jumping cats, general mishandling). I don't want to spend so much money on it that if I came home and found it broken that I would be upset by it. I figured there must be plenty of places that will sell LCDs with dead pixels or columns, where I might be able to pick one up in the $50-100 range, but so far I have found nothing. Surely there must be a market for 'Grade B' LCD monitors, for precisely this sort of low life expectancy sort of usage? So fellow readers, can you succeed where Google® has failed, and lead me to the cheapo LCDs?"
Isn't that how Dell get their LCD's?
Damn, I could have gotten more, couldn't I?
5. The fewer working pixels, the better www.aintitcoolnews.com looks!
4. With those allergies, you're going to sneeze all over the monitor and not see everything already.
3. With luck, the dropout area will be in the same place most banner ads are.
2. You have a nice colorful iMac: you don't care what the machine looks like when turned on, why not save a buck or two?
1. You want to simulate that wonderful snowy look of Viacom cable service.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Kill the cats before you cook them - I suffered a few broken LCDs myself before I figured that one out.