Martin Brown Inscribed thus:

On 26/07/2013 07:27, DaveC wrote:
This is a ~ 4 year old HP Pavilion laptop with LCD display.

There is a bright vertical area on the left end of the display that
is incongruous with the rest of the display. It is only on the left
end.

http://imagebin.org/265633

This image also shows the lighter central area of the display which
is an artifact of just viewing it on-center (or nearly). This
phenomenon can be ignored.

Is the stripe due to LCD problem? Or...?

It is such a terrible photograph that it looks mostly like a
reflection of something white you left on your desk off bottom right.
It doesn't look abrupt enough to be an LCD connection defect which
tends to give very sharp linear errors on bit/byte/word boundaries.

Looks to me more like a physical fault with the backlighting optics.
An impression heightened by a dark ridge to the RHS of the brighter
patch.


I would agree ! Probably a defect in the backlight tube/tubes.

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Baron.