I think the green specks they mentioned ARE the parts where it didn’t work. It was not like an analog issue that might tint the color of all the pixels, it was a digital issue where more than 99% of the pixels were the EXACT correct color and then a handful of spots had corrupted data which manifests as green specks on that monitor.
I don’t know what the specifications say should happen when data loss happens, but I’d much rather my screen show a random spot rather than refuse to display anything that’s corrupted.
hank_and_deans@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Not true. Corruption happens in digital signals quite often. The effects are different of course: packet loss, garbled audio, the green dots the poster you replied to described. I have seen it all.
If it “worked or not” we wouldn’t need things like checksums or error correction.
Source: did electrical engineering, then 25 years in networking.