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Monitor dying? Haven't seen this

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kaldaim

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Hello all

I've had my NEC 20WMGX2 for nearly 5 years, and about a month ago I noticed a washed-out distortion creeping inward from the left side of my screen. It's indistinguishable on a white or black background, but blues and purples seem to make it really stand out. It becomes much more pronounced once the display warms up. I use my monitor several hours a day but the room it's in is usually quite cool - no direct heat or light on it at all.

Cell phone camera shot (sorry)
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I'm wondering if anyone knows what this is or has had experience with the same problem. As far as I can tell there's no extra pressure or anything on that side of the display. I messed around with the bezel a bit trying to loosen it up but it made no difference.

While it does bother me, and it is getting worse, I haven't been able to find a monitor I like in my price range to replace it. If I can ride this monitor out a few more months while I find something I like (or come up with the money for a pricier display) that would be great, but if it's going to up and die on me any day now I'd like to get the ball rolling on a new monitor.

Any thoughts?
 
I have a similar issue on my Dell 2005fpw, bought around the start of 2006. I think they may both use the same LG Philips LM201W01 panel.

Mine goes across the bottom side of the screen, a darkened shadow area and I can only notice it when certain shades of colour are on the screen, often a uniform colour like in your picture will highlight it - light grey is pretty good.

I've always assumed it's the layers over the panel itself separating slightly with age or some such.
 
Does it looks like some sort of stain on the screen? Like someone spilt a drink on the monitor?

If so, I had the same problem with my iMac G5 from 2004 (from what I can tell it uses some sort of S-IPS panel) where it'd show up, but only on certain colours.

The strange thing is, it's gone now after probably about a year or longer of it appearing, so I don't really know what it is/was. I always thought it was heat related since the iMac G5 is an all-in-one computer where the hard drive sits roughly in the area where I had the "stain" and is notorious for running hot. However I still have it on 24/7 so the heat theory is flawed.

I also thought it might've been some sort of burn in, but the size, shape and slight darkish colour of the patch was completely irregular, as I've mentioned, like a stain.
 
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