Does one dead pixel make it a non-working product?

I have one dead red subpixel in the upper-right, outside of the 16:9 area on my LE. I’m waiting to see how other people’s RMA experiences go, whether they get a full replacement or a screen swap, and whether the replacements still have dead pixels or get swapped to Samsung panels.

I figure we have a year warranty to submit an RMA, so not in a huge rush. It helps that 90% of games are 16:9 only and the dead pixel just ends up in the black border.

If you don’t care about the LE colors, you may as well avoid it to save $30 and be guaranteed to have a Samsung screen, which had a much lower chance of issues.