I have same problem as you, LCD backlights are not as smooth, especially on the right side.., is that normal?

[quote author=“Terrance”]My previous TR3A has 3 black pixels on white backgroud. I returned it to the store and got another one. This one has no bad pixel. By the way, the LCD backlights are not as smooth as what I expected for all three TR3As I tested, especially on the right side.

[quote author=“edliang”]I have same problem as you, LCD backlights are not as smooth, especially on the right side.., is that normal?

[quote author=“Terrance”]My previous TR3A has 3 black pixels on white backgroud. I returned it to the store and got another one. This one has no bad pixel. By the way, the LCD backlights are not as smooth as what I expected for all three TR3As I tested, especially on the right side.

I find that a good number of laptops don’t have uniform illumination, though the TR seems a lot better than some others.  Desktop LCDs are much nicer, on the other hand.

having replaced 4 tr5b, made in japan, all has 1 dead pixel, I gave up at last, asked for refund.  :evil: never buy vaio again :evil:

last thought: Finally got a dead-pixel-free TR, still in doubt of sony’s QC

none! 

None on the TR, 2 on my desktop.  They are in the corners and so small I hardly notice them. :wink:

The only thing I ever had dead pixels on was a UK version Clie TH55 that I got from eXpansys.  I found ONE dead pixel.  eXpansys took it back even though they had to eat it (not enough bad pixels for Sony to take it back) and they sent me a new one with NO dead pixels.  Great customer service and I love having internal WiFi AND internal Bluetooth (UK version) on my Clie.

Never had a problem before with dead pixels…I have one on my desktop…don’t even see it…except when i’m playing with graphiks in Photoshop.

~nox

my computer started with 3 dead pixels and then they disappeared.  weird eh?

Maybe they were just wounded…

- No, they’ll be stone dead in a moment. Here’s your ninepence.

- I can’t take him like that, it’s against regulations.

</Monty Python>

never saw one on a tr, but plenty on other laptops, including sony FX series i used to own. maybe they (the industry) has licked this one.

difficult to count how many there are in a tiny patch 1/5th from the left and a 3rd up…
I notice that if i grabed the TR3 by the screen to pick it up (carefully) there seemed to be something touching the back of the screen at that point… it created the lovely water ripples on a lake effect… bu then i notice that a pixel died there one day… then a few days later, a few more had died…
So out came the tiny screwdriver and i took the screen/lid apart… funnily, there were only 3 screws holding the lcd inside the lid! hmmm but that was irrelevent..  the sorce of the problem was the flat metal braided cables that went from the left hinge to the Motion-Eye camera… all the cables/etc. are taped down on the back of the lid, but this flat, metal braided cable was slightly dog-legged on it’s route…  this caused the flat braid to kink up…  rubbing on the back of the lcd panel… thus causing my dead pixels…  Bugger
I pulled the tape off and re-routed the braided cable in a straight route, therefore having no kinks in it…  fixed…  well stopped it getting worse at least…
I can live with the tiny dead patch i think…

[quote author=“topbanana”]difficult to count how many there are in a tiny patch 1/5th from the left and a 3rd up…
I notice that if i grabed the TR3 by the screen to pick it up (carefully)....

uh, do we need to scold u for that? picking up the tr by the screen is sure to injure the poor bebe. u don’t hang ur children out of windows like Michael Jackson does do u?  i only say this cause i care. i closed the lid on a TR once with earbuds on the keyboard.  it does not take much to destroy the xbrite.

interesting..