One of the mates at work stumbled across this site that reports various levels of success with fixing *stuck* pixels (not dead pixels) by running a video for extended periods of time which flashes Red, Green and Blue over and over again

Some people state they have tried it on LCD monitors as well with some success. I'd be cautious about doing it myself

Creator = Nick Foothill
link here

Most people have been complaining to Sony about their stuck and dead pixels. Well I have done my research and I heard about a guy over at psphacks.net that had a LCD TV that had some stuck pixels and when he went to Best-Buy they gave him a dvd that flashed Red, Green and Blue over and over again. This supposedly "un-sticks" the stuck pixels, by calling them to do rapid changes (To my understanding). So I thought about it for a while, and I said, what the heck, I'll try it. So I made my own video that does this, and it works!

Admin edit: Several forums users have reported success with this video, though several have reported failures. You don't have much to lose, so just give it a shot and let us know your results.


So far, it has worked around 60% of the time. I tried it on my friend's that had 6 stuck pixels, and it fixed them all. The only real thing you can do is set the video to repeat and leave it on for a few hours. In Version 2.0, I have added a white screen and a black screen, so you can periodically check to see if your pixels have been fixed. This video works with all versions of the PSP, from 1.00 to 1.52; good luck with it to all of you.

My three suck pixels are Sexy!

Got Epilepsy???

so the lesson to be learnt from this is that PSP's have s*** LCD's?

Got Epilepsy???

I'm gonna go out on a limb here an guess that he wasn't trying to remove the stuck retinas from your eyeballs tho =)

Can't say that for a certain cartoon (wasn't it pokemon?) episode though eh?

I must have been one of the lucky ones who got a PSP with no dead pixels.

so the lesson to be learnt from this is that PSP's have s*** LCD's?

not just the LCD, but sony's refund policy.

which is funny because my work was looking at specifying the panel that is used in 1+ revision of the psp hardware for another product and the technical manual for it wasn't even available without an NDA. Now why do you think they'd do that?

Because its prolly specific to sony and the may own the rights to it now and dont want to give out business secrets?

NDAs are standard if you want a glass of water in some corp places, specially NEC.

No problems on my PSP either.

haha, Sony's 'Dead Pixel' Technology.
Can't be disclosing THOSE secrets...

Its interesting how much trouble Sony is having where Nintendo have shipped millions of DS's with vey minimal dead pixel issues.

Hehe, Adam's a little upset because his PSP has a dead pixel right in the middle of the f***ing screen... Suck s*** =D