Thoughts about back light bleeding

Hey guys, i currently have a Samsung T220 and find it suitable for my tastes except one thing that bugs me, the back light bleeding at the top and bottom of the screen. You can't really see it in a well lit room, but in a darkened room there seems to be about 1/4-1/2 inch of back light bleed along the top and bottom of the monitor.

Is this plausible reason for me to go exchange it at Best Buy where I purchased it? I might get stuck with one thats worse or something. I already exchanged it once explaining there was black light bleeding and stuck or dead pixels. They told me they couldn't see anything and I realized Best Buy is extremely bright and it would be impossible to notice it but didn't say anything because they exchanged it for me anyway. They'll probably give me a hassle again and I might have to get angry and tell them that it's hard to see anything in a well lit area.

I know theres always going to be back light bleeding, so I was just wondering what everyone else's thoughts were about this.

T220 is a TN panel, isn't it? I think that with these cheaper TN panels you always have a good chance for the top-and-bottom BB.
So my recommendation is to get used to it, every monitor have some flaws. Well, maybe other people will toss their 2 cents

my screen has a light screen bleed on the top and bottom.. Mines not enough to take back, but i think i've come to accpect that my next sceen I buy has to be a quailty LCD

I hate to say it, but there is no quality LCD. I've gone through about 4 (non-TNs) already and they all sucked (uneven backlight, discoloration in a corner, image retention, bad screen door effect), but my current one is least-suck and it was cheap.

Which one was that hexadec?

The one I ended up sticking with is the Soyo DYLM24D6. I got it for $275 at a local OfficeMax and it has an MVA panel (which are getting hard to find). Just watch out for the TN versions of this monitor (if you don't want TN, anyway) - basically, if the box says 6ms response time, it's MVA. If it says 3ms, it could be either TN or MVA, depending on the manufacture date on the back of the monitor (<= November is MVA, some Decembers are MVA as well).

To get back on topic, the panel has very little backlight bleeding.

Yep, with my experiences too, TN panels generally all have backlight bleed.

If Best Buy would ever put all their display screens on a black background and show them in a darkened room...you would notice. And that's why they don't.