iMac 24 Aluminum screen burn-in?

Every so often I visit the support site (I own an iPhone) and I "surf" around. I have to say, only on an Apple forum would you see this kind of post. Just what kool-aid are you drinking? And, can I have some?

Viewing this from a perfectly functioning, $220 24" ViewSonic monitor that's a year old.

"A few days ago I telephoned with Apple service and learned that this is quite normal for a display of this class. Guess you'd have to invest much more and buy a more professional one to not have these little imperfections."

Every so often I visit the support site (I own an iPhone) and I "surf" around. I have to say, only on an Apple forum would you see this kind of post. Just what kool-aid are you drinking? And, can I have some?

Viewing this from a perfectly functioning, $220 24" ViewSonic monitor that's a year old.

Spoke to Apple today regarding a very similar situation with the screen. I have change the screen every 2 months since August 2009, because of screen burn in or some other issue with the screen.
Just spoke to them today, they are saying it is an environmental issue where the machine is being used and as such they are not willing to replace the screen, given the history of my machine’s screen replacement.
This is what they replied, “the dark patches may be environmental but its impossible that this customer is the only one to get panels with this defect consistently.”
This is Apple saying this is not their problem anymore and they are not going to honour the warranty.

24" Aluminium here. Same as everyone else, vertical lines and ghosted UI elements on the left side of the screen. My machine is in constant use, nothing is ever in one place for long enough for it to cause genuine burn-in.

Installed smcFanControl and have had the fans running at 3000rpm for about 2 hours, and I left a blank white screen as screensaver as per http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2807?viewlocale=en_US. It actually seems to have almost fixed it. Still a little bit of ghosting, but if 2 hours has almost eliminated it I'm sure overnight in a cold room with the screensaver and fans on will do the trick.

I experienced exactly the same issue, its very easy to deal with. Most peoples problems would be solve by cleaning inside the screen. Save yourselves a lot of time and money.

This shows you how:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHMHzq5E5I&feature=related