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by jerf 1353 days ago
"The adhesive keeping the LCD layers came off, creating a diagonal striped clouding pattern."

Oh, is THAT what that is. I have an ancient laptop where the screen is failing that way. Was trying to figure out what on Earth could produce perfectly diagonal streaks in an LCD! Though I'm still not quite sure how that connects; is the tape oriented diagonally?

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> Oh, is THAT what that is.

That is at least the explanation I got on some obscure forum where someone else had a similar problem and it was caused by heat.

> is the tape oriented diagonally?

Worse - it's a multi layer sandwich of filters etc. which need to be perfectly aligned for a clear image:

https://www.azom.com/images/Article_Images/ImageForArticle_2...

Funny thing is in my case the hottest part actually remained ok - it's the surroundings that got, for lack of a better word, ruffled.

I've seen videos of Indian repair men disassembling a panel and putting it together to fix such issues, but IIRC only the back light ever came off.