You've just blown $2,000 on a sexy new flat-panel TV, and it thinks there should be a little black pimple in the middle of Tom Cruise's face. Good luck getting it fixed. That black spot is a dead ...

A defective pixel on an LCD screen. Bad pixels are often transistors that are permanently dead and appear as black dots or permanently energized and show up as white or colored dots ("hot pixels").

I've never heard of anything fixing hot or dead pixels. If either of those worked then panel manufacturer's could save millions each year replacing defective units.

Nintendo says dead pixels on the Switch are normal. Since the Nintendo Switch launched, there have been reports of hardware issues and defects relating to the Joy-Cons, the the design of the dock, and ...