Can I get my money back? (UK)

Question

Hi all, I'm hoping for advice here. I live in the UK, so I could do with knowing what my rights are here. Anyway, here is the situation:
I own an Apple Cinema Display 20. It is less than a year old. I really dislike it, and I would like my money back. I don't want a repair or a replacement.
I have about 3 problems. One of them is something I just dislike a LOT, and the other two are actual faults. Here they are:
1) The screen looks very dirty, even although it is perfectly clean. They obviously used some kind of coating on the screen, and it gives the screen a grainy/sandy/dusty look. (NOTE: I know it's the screen and not what I'm looking at, because the "dirt" stays still when I move the image around).
2) The screen has terrible image retention. If I display something for a minute or more, and then I look at something dark grey (a scene in a movie, or a game etc..) I can still see outline of the previous image clearly.
3) The brightness of the screen is not uniform. There are vertical bands up and down the screen, where it is brighter or darker than other areas.
The last two I consider faults with the screen, and the first one is the reason why I don't want a replacement or a repair. I really would like my money back so that I can just buy another screen. These problems aren't too bad when you are just looking at webpages, but if I was just looking at web pages, I would have bought a normal 20" widescreen monitor for about £120. This screen cost me £400, and these kinds of faults are not acceptable at all. If I was going to "just put up with it", I would put up with it on a normal cheaper monitor that only costs about £150 - NOT on a monitor like this which cost £400.
So anyway, would anyone please be able to tell me if I am legally entitled to my money back or not?
p.s. I would rather not get into a discussion about anything else, because last time that happened here, I was sidetracked by irrelevant and incorrect information. Also: I have tried 4 other monitors, two different PC's, and two different graphics cards, so I am 100% positive that these are faults of the screen and not anything to do with the PC it is plugged into.
p.p.s: I would also question whether it is truly Windows XP compatible, as stated. I cannot control the colour or contrast as none of the on screen controls work in XP. Luckily I can do it via my graphics card, but that is not the point.

Answer 1

Thank you. I will have to sell it on Ebay and hopefully get some money for it I'm so sad about it. I hate losing money like that.
It actually seemed fine in the fist 2 weeks, but this image retention problem seems to have got worse and worse in time. I can now barely do anything for more than a couple of minutes and it's burnt in. And I can see it now if I play a movie. Luckily it goes after a few minutes more.
My main problem is the dirty look though, and I didn't notice that until a month or so after I bought the screen. Some things really bring out the worst of it, and most of the time it isn't noticeable. But if I'm playing a game that looks bad on the screen, the entire time I am playing that game will look bad.
Oh well
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