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may have or develop "stuck" pixels not pixel-based no problem


um... CRTs definitely use pixels and they still get stuck/dead pixels just much less likely than LCDs altho LCD quality control is getting much better and approaching CRTs

Exhaustive research has shown that the Nintendo Entertainment System does not have per pixel collision detection. Rather it is a function dependent on two variables: whether or not the player is balls-to-the-wall and if the player "don't even care".

Last post from the ATL for a while. Catch y'all on the flip side.

I agree that pixels appear but they are created in a manner wholey different from LCD's. Each one of the three colors in each pixel is created by a physically separate device whereas in a CRT subpixels are the smallest unit of a picture are created by a mask within the monitor to break up an otherwise continuous beam and 1 pixel as intended by the computer can be made up of one or several subpixels. The pixels that you see on a tv are the bright spots created by gaps in the mask and disappear (except for the individual full-screen continuous vertical strips of phosphor that react differently to electron impact and make colors) when the tv is off. A dead subpixel therefore doesn't come from the failure or burnout of an individual diode but either from magnetization or obstruction of a mask hole (dust that got in there during production or something?) or if something bouncing around inside scraped a little chunk of phosphor off the inside of the glass that makes up the screen. I'm not sure if we disagree at this point . . . I guess I'm just pointing out that monitor failure doesn't really happen in a discrete pixel-wise fashion but in a more continuous blob-like fashion. Iii dont really know what that means. but i'm trying. :-D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube