Bright areas on side of lcd monitor

[Technochicken]

There are two white areas on the right side of my monitor. The monitor is pretty old, a 15" Dell 1501P analog, and I've had it for 7 or 8 years
Is this a sign that the monitor is nearing its end? I'd like to get a new monitor, but I don't want to until this one completely dies. I've attached a picture of the spots.

 

[rf6647]

Dimming, limited control of contrast, and limited control of color are typical of an old, worn monitor.

Your grapgic is more like an artifact - typical for a gpu problem. Does this bright spot follow the black border when adjusting the monitor horizontal size/position? Move vertical position and observe its effect.

Those 2 spots may be associated with the horizontal wires securing the shadow mask for color monitors. I know nothing about such things. With the gpu card trying to put a border there (black), it is hard to envision what electrical or mechanical condition is revealing itself as bright spots.

 

[Technochicken]

I do not know how to move the vertical position, but i rotated the display under the nvidia control panel and the spots stayed in the same place(in comparison to the physical monitor, not everything on the screen).

 

[Tmagic650]

I would say the LCD panel is bad

 

[Technochicken]

Thanks. Any ideas how long it might take for it to become completely unusable?

 

[Tedster]

LCDs can develop dead pixels over time. But you can try free dead pixel programs to try and revive them. If it is a large area, it could be something else.