is this lcd dying or is there anything else wrong with it?

[crappyjones123]

dell lcd was purchased ~5 years ago. as you can see in the pictures, theres a darkish horizontal area that curves up a little to the right side of the panel. visible on white backgrounds but very very obvious on greys. its actually worse in person than it seems in the pictures. any thoughts? suggestions?

my thinkpad backlight just died 20 minutes after i installed a replacement harddrive (the deathstar finally kicked the bucket). the laptop has been with my for the better part of 4 years now. just hate all this stuff happening to machines i have gotten very used to.

[crappyjones123]

anything?

[Nebby]

Both of my 2001fpw's had the same issue after 5 years of use or so. As far as I could tell it's just dying, tried a bunch of different "burn in" fixes and none of them did anything, so I just resigned myself to buying a new one and putting them as my side monitors. Damn shame too, it happened to both of them just a couple of months after their warranty expired.