I don’t have a lot of good shit.  I drive a company truck, my house is just average, I don’t have a boat, motorcycle, or any other awesome guy toys, but I do have my HDTV.  I got my Sony LCD about a year ago and it was instantly very dear to me.  So, when a little while back I discovered a dead pixel on my screen, my world was rocked.  For those who don’t know, a dead pixel is a dark spot on your screen (I think a light spot on the screen is referred to as a stuck pixel.)  When I saw it, I looked online for any fix.  They ranged from tapping it with your finger, which didn’t work, to getting a pixel fixing DVD, which didn’t fix the pixel, but just washed out your screen little bit so you couldn’t see it, hurting your TV’s image quality in the process.  The makers of these televisions are allowed a certain number of dead pixels per screen before they are required to do anything for you, so when I called Sony customer service to ask what I could do, they basically said to back the fuck up from the TV.  This answer was actually understandable since the defect was about the size of a match head on a 60″ screen, but to me, on my precious TV, it was always there.  But, alas, what could I do, I learned to live with it.

Now, the instructions on this TV also say to unplug the unit whenever you are not going to use it for a week.  It doesn’t say why to do this, it just says do it.  So, recently, before going out of town for a while, I unplugged my TV just as I was instructed.  Upon arriving home, however, I got a surprise.  I don’t know what made me look in the spot where the dead pixel was, probably the same fixation that made me look at it just before I left, but now it was gone.  There was joy in my house, not only was my dead pixel fixed, but for once in my life the dork karma of doing something like unplugging your television before you go on a trip because the instruction manual tells you to, paid off.  Finally, some justice in the universe.

I don’t know why this worked or if it would work again, and while the “solution” of leaving your TV unplugged for a week is not realistic unless you are going out of town, I would suggest that if you do have a dead pixel on an LCD to try unplugging it for a few minutes, or maybe overnight.  This may have just been a fluke or coincidence, but I would be an irresponsible TV lover if I did not share it with you all.