Playbook screen goes purple with distortion when taken out of standby. Is my playbook dying?

In the last 2 weeks, about half the times that I wake uo the playbook from standby by swiping screen, it displays a distorted purple screen.
if I touch the screen or use bezzl commands the distortion changes, faint lines on screen move.
everything sounds like it's working. apps continue to run ie music keeps playing, camera makes click sound.
Try to take picture of screen but when I check screen shots later, it looks like it took a picture of a normal screen, only the view is portrait...?!...
Sometimes I can get the screen to display normally by pressing power button twice, but sometimes I have to reset by holding power button down until it resets device.
I did a complete security wipe and re did the system set up hoping this would help. it hasn't changed it. 
Please let me know what to do. Playbook is my new best friend, I would go insane if it died on me.
~Michael Mac

I would contact support and ask for an RMA under the 1 year warranty.  It sounds like a video failure.
Be a Shepard and not an iSheep.

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