This appears to be anything dead. You can get this effect just by exerting pressure on parts of the screen. It appears to just be excess pressure in the edges of the bezel and I don't know what, if anything, you can do to rectify it.
Greetings. After over a year and a half using this monitor I started to see these dark shadow spots on my ASUS PB278Q (27" 1440p 60htz) monitor recently when my brightness is set to 0% - they start to go away progressively when the brightness is raised to around 15%, around 17% you can't see them at all. I sent in these images and description to Asus, and they said its covered under warranty, so RMA it, no prob.
Asus tech repair center however is saying there's nothing wrong.
What do you think?


Would this indicate dead leds? bad backlightl? or would this be a normal thing that IPS pannels do and be a bi-product of common "backlight bleed" (they don't cover RMA's on common subtle backlight bleed - they say thats normal on IPS, but I dont think this is the case with mine. What do you think?
Thanks.
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