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The vertical lines are a bad screen, seen it already on the early imac's 17" G5's and first run intel imacs. on the imacs the line started as a single, then got wider, I have seen up to 3" before the owners decided to dump them.
Samsung just bought I think it was 20% of Sharp because they (Sharp) bleeding money because of LCD display and tv market. Sanyo still makes money, and so does Toshiba and strangely enough they make money with their "world CRT tv's" I call them "World tv's" but these two companies build and sell CRT sets as the cheap and more rugged types of sets that go to third world markets. CRT sets withstand bomb blasts, and falling off shelves much better than the flat screens. These world sets basically have a power supply that adjusts to line voltage, and tuners that cover every market band. They are really amazing. Sanyo builds the chassis, I think Toshiba still supplies the tubes.