Pixels on screen making a grey line

A couple of days ago i notice a small what looked liked a scratch on my screen. After taking a closer look i realized that the pixels on the screen were turning grey. After a few days now that scratch turned in a a couple grey lines. It seems like everytime i turn my ipod on and off it gets worse. Any advise would be great thanks for the help.

It is about to die as they all do.  This stuff will guaranteed only last you maybe a couple years if you are lucky and then it will fail.  Thousands of people have greying out ipods and it's often right around the two year mark (if it lasts that long, you are lucky)
Dont put money into it. They are all designed to fail, it is part of the electronics game.

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