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This Reddit thread suggests that the backlight may be the problem, not the LCD display itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/akaiMPC/comments/15zdlac/need_sugge...

Can you tell if the pixels are correct and there’s just no light? If so, the LED backlight replacements mentioned would be the answer.

I also stumbled upon cases in which the backlight was the issue but OP wrote that "the screen while illuminated is entirely blank".

Ah, thank you, I had totally misread that as not illuminated and black. More caffeine required.

illuminated and backlit are two different things, there's a matter of polarization