Stuck Pixels - In Lines

I have had my iPod touch for a little over a year now, and I have had a few stuck pixels along the way, which normally go away. The other day I flicked on my touch, and there were 3 lines about 1/4" long (length wise) going horizontally across the screen. I'm headed to the Apple Store saturday, but does anyone know what they will say/do?

but does anyone know what they will say/do?
If you bought AppleCare for your touch you shouldn't have any problems. Since your touch is over a year old, if you DON'T have AppleCare, be VERY nice.
BTW, make sure to make an appointment before going to the Apple Store (you can do this on-line).

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I've been reading a lot of posts this morning about stuck pixels, and I thought maybe that's what I have, but mine seem to be a little off from what others are experiencing. I woke up my iMac (bought in May 2006 from the online Apple store, so warranty is definitely over), and noticed a straight, vertical line of light blue going right down the entire center of the screen. I thought maybe it was just on the Safari page I had open, but it was on the desktop as well. I restarted, thinking something had fritzed, but it's still there now.
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Sorry to harp on stuck pixels I know there are alot of posts on this subject. However in most cases people are talking about 1 or 2 pixels, in my unfortunate situation I have hundreds if not thousands. A 5cm x 2 cm portion of my 14 inch screen is covered in green "stuck pixels". One line is permantly stuck on green however the remaining stuck pixels appear to change colours (pink or green) depending on what is on the screen.
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I had 6 dead pixels on my macbook pro screen. I was quite annoyed about it.
After a huge research I did find solution. At least you can try it is for free
It is a small Jawa applet which flickers and can unstuck pixels.
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Stuck pixel

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I'm new to the forum here having recently converted. I've done a search or 2 on this issue but found nothing of note. I have one dead pixel(well its green or white sometimes) in the middle of the screen and its very annoying. I've read through all the support pages and found the usual pixel anomalies page explaing all about it.
But It only mentions LCD's. There's no mention of LED screen, so would I be right in saying that there is no material specifying the restrictions of this and it would be considered a fault?

Vermelho88 wrote:
But what I mean is, they have no policy for LED screens stated yet so therefore its just plain faulty, as in "not as described" so wouldn't they have to replace it straight away?
It's still an LCD display. The Al MacBook displays use LED (as opposed to fluorescent) backlighting. A dead/stuck pixel is still an LCD malfunction. One dead pixel is considered normal. If it weren't the cost to the manufacturer would be considerably more in terms of rejected parts and warranty returns.

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