Red Pixels in Black Areas

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Red Pixels in Black Areas

I just purchased my MBP last week, and so far things have been pretty good. Just one minor issue that I can't seem to figure out; at times when I am viewing black areas, they have a bunch of little red pixels inside them. It's not that the pixels get stuck, I can scroll the images and the red pixels stay in the same area of the picture.

Has anyone else had a similar situation or a solution?

http://h.imagehost.org/0620/Screenshot_2010-08-04_at_12_10_52AM.png

MacBook Pro 15" i5, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 3, 2010 9:25 PM

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eww

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Aug 4, 2010 4:39 AM in response to kk2438

No problem is visible in your screenshot.

If the red pixels scroll along with everything else, they are not defects in your machine, but defects in the image you are scrolling.

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Aug 4, 2010 11:09 AM in response to eww

When I look at it, there are little red pixels all over cat's paw. I will have to actually take a picture of my screen with a camera. The red areas sometimes flicker, but it's never a big botch of red, just a lot of nearby pixels. It is not the image, I can see the image clearly on my PC, on here there are red pixels on it.

I will take a photo and post it ASAP.

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Aug 4, 2010 11:33 AM in response to kk2438

http://h.imagehost.org/view/0248/red_pixels

Here is the image.

Help!

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eww

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Aug 4, 2010 3:28 PM in response to kk2438

Again: If the red pixels travel with the image when you scroll, they're in the image, not a fault in your MBP. If they don't show up on a different screen, it's probably because the screens aren't calibrated alike and the color data in the image is being rendered differently on them.

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Aug 4, 2010 5:31 PM in response to eww

Incorrect. Took the MBP back to the Apple Store tonight and they immediately declared it a bad display. Gave me a new one no questions asked.

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eww

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Aug 4, 2010 7:18 PM in response to kk2438

And what happens when you view the same image on your new display?

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Aug 4, 2010 8:13 PM in response to eww

No red pixels. If you would have looked at the images I attached, you would be able to see that one shows the red pixels and the other doesn't. Obviously it's not the image.

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eww

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Aug 4, 2010 8:53 PM in response to kk2438

If you had attached any images, I would have looked at them. What images are you talking about?

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