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today i had a chance to ride my bike down to funcoland to see if they had any DS lites. the guy looked around and said "its your lucky day" i was real happy and took my new lite home to charge after an hour or two i start the bugger up and i have a freakin' stuck pixel right in the middle of the touch screen. i returned it of course but they dont have any more in stock anywhere
sorry to post such a meaningless thread but i expected nothing like this in a product from nintendo
and to make it a bit less blog like, has anybody else ever been dissapointed when they got something they thought would be super female of the dog species and it was defective
damn you funcoland/gamestop/ebgames
sorry to post such a meaningless thread but i expected nothing like this in a product from nintendo
and to make it a bit less blog like, has anybody else ever been dissapointed when they got something they thought would be super female of the dog species and it was defective
damn you funcoland/gamestop/ebgames
If you call Nintendo they will send you a free DS Light, all you have to do is ship the defective one back in the box that the new one comes in. I had the same peoblem with my original DS, called em up, they sent one out (and you get to use the old one till the new one arives) and when it arived I just sent the old one back.
Mind you I would have returned it to the store but everywhere in my city was sold out...
Mind you I would have returned it to the store but everywhere in my city was sold out...
I've been usually lucky when it comes to electronics. I am kinda pissed though that when I picked out my laptop that I wanted for gaming, at the time I didn't really know what were good requirements. Later I found out I got severely ripped off and N64 emulation sucks ass on it.
Now a little bit off topic, I miss the funco land I used to have Damn you gamestop, damn you.
Now a little bit off topic, I miss the funco land I used to have Damn you gamestop, damn you.
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true but it pales in comparison to the psp on release, ds like mebe 2-3 dead/stuck pixels and nintendo will take them back no questions asked if there is even ONE. sony unless you had an assload dead, like 1/3 the screen you were up crap creek, ive heard of psps with 10+ dead pixles lol, nintendo pwns
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when lcd screens are mass produced, a lot of them have at least one dead pixel (although im sure manufacturing technology is slowly getting better). if they threw out every single screen with a dead pixel, the price of LCD screens would be ridiculously high.
i know that for comptuer LCD monitors, manufactuers each have their own rules about how many dead pixels means 'defective'. some of them are as high as 9!
that said, there are big companies that offer a "no dead pixel policy". but im just saying... dead pixels are a pretty common thing and a part of life. you still have a pretty awesome piece of gaming equipment there.
i know that for comptuer LCD monitors, manufactuers each have their own rules about how many dead pixels means 'defective'. some of them are as high as 9!
that said, there are big companies that offer a "no dead pixel policy". but im just saying... dead pixels are a pretty common thing and a part of life. you still have a pretty awesome piece of gaming equipment there.
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The original DS was backlit, and yeah I've heard of dead pixels in them.G-force wrote:Which begs the question, why does this only happen to backlit LCD's?
My SP had a dead pixel. Took it back to futureshop and they gave me a new one(in blue which is better than silver) and all the asked is if I thought it was defective and i said yes(dead pixel and scratched up on the top). Even the box was a bit mangled and they still took it anyway.
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I had this happen with my Dell Axim X50v there was one light blue pixel in the corner that drove me crazy (Even though it was extremely tiny), but after about 6 months it just went away.
And I'll keep the returning to nintendo thing in mind if I ever wind up with a dud unit.
And the DS is not backlit, it is frontlit with LED's and diffusers.
And I'll keep the returning to nintendo thing in mind if I ever wind up with a dud unit.
And the DS is not backlit, it is frontlit with LED's and diffusers.
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