Entertainment Center: TVs, Stereos, VCRs and DVDs - new lcd issue

got a new 37" panasonic lcd at christmas. from the time e opened the box and turned it on it has had one pixel that is blue. hard to see it, but when you do its hard to stop looking at it. what causes this, and should i return it?

Its a stuck pixel. Sometimes there are ways to fix them, like on a computer monitor you can run a program that tries to fix it.

I would just return it.

It's called a dead pixel. It happens with LCD's. Just return it.

thanks for the replies!

Dead pixel and stuck pixel are two different things. A dead pixel is just that, dead. It will be black. The pixel is unable to change to red, blue, or green. A stuck pixel results from a manufacturing defect which leaves one or more of these sub-pixels permanently turned on. A stuck pixel will be most visible against a black background, where it will appear red, green, blue, or any combination of the three.

Unlike dead pixels, stuck pixels have been reported to disappear, and there are several popular methods purported to fix them, such as gently rubbing the screen (in an attempt to reseat the pixel), cycling the color value of the stuck pixel rapidly (in other words, flashing bright colors on the screen,) or simply tolerating the stuck pixel until it disappears (which can take anywhere from a day to years.) Stuck pixels are not guaranteed to be correctable, and can remain faulty for the life of the monitor.