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This is a known recently introduced bug, I get it on my h320 too and no you're not blind, the h300 does not support fading of the lcd backlight.
This may be obvious news, but since the only player I've seen mentioned so far is the H3x0, I thought I'd add that I've noticed this behavior on my e280 recently as well.
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