The Philips monitor will have a manual brightness control. Have you found its buttons? They'll (usually) be at the bottom or the right-hand side of the screen, sometimes hidden around the back.
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But I hasten to add that I don't think there's a problem. I genuinely can't see what shadow you're talking about?
You can't, sorry. You'd need to try to clone the blanket afterwards.