PSP suffering from dead pixels?

PSP News | A solution may just have been discovered...

Hot on the trail of yesterday's news that a new-and-improved PSP battery charger would soon be with us, today there's another good reason for owners of Sony's PSP handheld to cheer - the answer to correcting dead pixels may have been found. And it's all thanks to a custom-designed video file, put together by a group of PlayStation Portable fans, that apparently 'unsticks' dead pixels in 60% of cases by flashing red, green and blue repeatedly. The file in question is available now from PSP Vault, and although PALGN's PSP has yet to suffer from even a single pixel expiring (touch wood), there's plenty of reports of people having revived the little blighters.

And as we're good eggs, we decided to publish a small step-by-step guide for those wishing to give this a try. Here goes:

1. Obviously, getting the video file on to your PSP is the first objective. To do this, just plug the afflicted handheld into a PC using an appropriate USB cable.
2. Select the USB connection on your desktop.
3. Access the PSP using My Computer/Windows Explorer (or whatever the equivalent is for your good selves), create a folder called MP_ROOT and another within it called 100MNV01 and place the video file in there.
4. It should then be accessible through the Video section of the PSP user interface. Voila! Pixel reincarnation (in 60% of cases).

We'll try and find a PSP to try this on as soon as we can, and keep you informed on the results.