If you look at the screen whilst the thing is trying to play and get the light "About right" can you see a faint picture on the screen, maybe using a torch? If you can, that would suggest the backlight or the inverter driving it has failed. Cheapo Chinese rubbish. Probably time to bin it and move on.
XXX
February 2017
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