Visible Lines Across Screen -- help!

hi there is a thick visible white line across the screen of my ipod nano!! its been like this for a few months. i've tried using the apple repair thing but when i try to input my info into the form, some vital fields wont display (such as address!!) so i have been unable to send it to apple. any help appreciated.
sarz x

well it sounds like your ipod has dead pixels(if you dont know what pixels are it is the little dots in the screen) in its screen and you cant fix it on your own you have to get it fixed by apple or some times the screen will fix itself but most of the time it dont.now i could be wrong but thats what it sounds like.
hope this helps.

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