What the hell? Looks like a scene from a horror movie. Just missing the blood. Guessing there was a chemical reaction inside the LCD and it's toast.
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jmacz
3lectr1cPPC
I don't believe that circular polarization is correct for this LCD. Try using 45 or 90 degree film instead.
jmacz
No the above picture was without any polarization at all.
I was saying I had recapped it and was using a circular polarizer filter lens from my DSLR camera to just see if I could see any picture (the circular polarizer lens rotates to various degrees) but even before I got to use it, I saw the above image on the LCD.
I was saying I had recapped it and was using a circular polarizer filter lens from my DSLR camera to just see if I could see any picture (the circular polarizer lens rotates to various degrees) but even before I got to use it, I saw the above image on the LCD.
3lectr1cPPC
Did you remove the rear film or just the front?
LaPorta
I don’t even know what we are looking at.
jmacz
@3lectr1cPPC just the front. Haven’t opened up the actual LCD to look at the rear. But should I be seeing an image like that? It’s so freaky.
3lectr1cPPC
Yeah you likely have a vinegar syndrome rear polarizer too
finkmac
yeah as others have said, the rear polarizer is damaged as well. very common on badly deteriorated panels.
jmacz
Are the front and rear usually using the same angle or do I need to figure out the rear first before the front? I have to open up the panel and see what I find on the rear 
jmacz
For the PB5300c where I watched vinegar syndrome develop (on the front), it was weird to see that it's so geometric... it was at a near perfect 45 degree angle and followed a straight line. As I'm looking at the above picture, there's definitely patterns of lines at perfect 45 degree angles. That's just so weird. Must be happening along something that is part of the manufacturing process.
finkmac
the rear polarizer must polarized 90° greater than the front. generally that means that the front polarizer is 45° or 135° and the rear is 135° or 34°.
artist's impression:
black = front polarizer, red = rear polarizer
artist's impression:
black = front polarizer, red = rear polarizer
finkmac
the vinegar syndrome patterns actually reveal the polarizer degree. in your case the front polarizer is 45° and the rear is 135°