Pixels have 3 main colors that they can change to: red, green, or blue. Occasionally, a pixel on your screen will get stuck and will constantly display one of these three colors.

A stuck pixel can ruin your viewing experience, whether on a TV or a monitor. There are a few ways to handle it, from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Before you tote your pixel-speckled flat screen back to the store, consider what a soft cloth, your finger, and a bit of power-fiddling might accomplish.

Discovering dead or stuck pixels in a screen can naturally affect your enjoyment. But thankfully there is a simple fix.

Screens present incredibly crisp and detailed images with the use of pixels, but a dead pixel can make the entire screen unusable. But can you fix them?

One of the tests I ran was to look for dead or stuck pixels, which I’ve heard can haunt some monitors. Low and behold, I uncovered a few stuck pixels lurking to the left of center.