This is what a FALD LED display looks like. You can have a dimmer OLED screen with burn-in or a much brighter LED screen with blooming. Until we have Micro LED, them’s the ropes.
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iPad Pro 2021 12.9 Screen Shadow
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As long as it is bearable that is good, you will probably get used to it and in 2 months completely forgotten until you open MR again ?
I remember the early days of OLED on Nokia N85 and N8-00, this MiniLED issue is kids play compared to what early OLED was, you could not even use early OLED phones in the sun, they were pretty much useless.
The next patch will take the debug code out of the screen driver.It's just the glue drying!
That photo is in no way representative of real world viewing. I cannot see any perceivable “blooming” on mine.
You get this effect only through photos.
Enjoy your new beast!
Thanks! Yeah, I am actually really looking forward to the new screen tech on the 11", and will probably upgrade again at that point. Plus I expect Apple will have the lamination of this tech fully fleshed out by that point.
Tell that to all the Tesla buyers raving about the continual updates their car gets....
Kicking around the interwebs this morning it's obvious this is taking hold with certain demographics... apple haters, opportunists, etc.
It's no doubt within a day or two we're going to see YouTube full of "WTF APPLE!?!?!!" videos from semi-famous "reviewers" trying to get those cash rich clicks.
The irony is to 97% of users its something they probably wouldn't even notice, let alone care about, but it'll blow up and present itself as a huge problem, even though it really isn't.
It's no doubt within a day or two we're going to see YouTube full of "WTF APPLE!?!?!!" videos from semi-famous "reviewers" trying to get those cash rich clicks.
The irony is to 97% of users its something they probably wouldn't even notice, let alone care about, but it'll blow up and present itself as a huge problem, even though it really isn't.
I know very little about Tesla, it's not widespread like in the US here in Europe....
Anyway having updates for iPadOS is something everybody is waiting for... and honestly it's more needed than the M1 or the XDR display....
But hoping to correct / offset an hardware issue with software updates is not something people should count on...
It’s absolutely blown out of proportion in photos.
I have a Samsung QN90A, their latest Mini-LED TV, and while the effect is noticeable, it does not look anything like this in person:
But that’s been known about FALD backlights for years; they’re not great with text but absolutely stunning with images. Photo and video work will shine on the iPad.
Here’s the same movie but a couple minutes later. Yes, not a screenshot, still captured through my phone camera. Big difference.
I guess the same picture with an iPad 11 would show a similar glowing effect across the whole display.
Obviously the camera is exaggerating the effect, but basically it seems like the mini-LED display looks like OLED in completely dark areas and looks like LCD in areas with a mix of bright and dark elements.
It probably isn’t very visible in a bright light environment, but in a dark environment the slight inconsistency between dark pixels in a fully dark area and dark pixels located in proximity of bright ones might be more visible. Anyone with the new iPad willing to try and tell us? (pictures won’t reflect real life experience)
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The edge shadows were the first thing I noticed when the screen was all white during setup, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me at first, but I guess it's good(?) to know that it doesn't mean it's faulty.
Guess we have to learn to ignore it, but it's still noticeable even when you're browsing here in Dark mode for example...
Guess we have to learn to ignore it, but it's still noticeable even when you're browsing here in Dark mode for example...
If the Apple display devices also have it, which they are reported to, then it’s a ‘feature’
As the "art-tech" YouTuber Brad Colbow noted, this is probably much more of an issue for people who use their iPad Pro for art (like myself). You can't have shadow falloff when you're painting on the edges (you'd have to constantly readjust the canvas just to avoid the shadow). But if I wasn't using the iPad for art, I'm not sure how much I'd notice this. EDIT: Though, certainly, it would be awful for color correction, should they bring a full Final Cut app to the iPad.
This is the problem with using backlit lcd. Yes, there are thousands of zones but cannot compared to self lit oled. MiniLed is just a stopgap until Apple figures out cheaper way to make oled or use microled. why do you think cheap Chinese tv makers are using this instead of oled?
If you come from a older or cheaper iPad that doesn’t have (insert any display issue) and you notice it without looking for it then it will be annoying.
The pictures are overstating the "blooming" effect unless you have a defective panel. Similar issue when trying to take pictures of my q90r. There is some level of blooming but nothing near the level that is showing on pics IMO.
I haven't reviewed my iPad's yet though lol.
I haven't reviewed my iPad's yet though lol.
I managed to get a good picture of what mine actually looks like in a similar situation - this is very close to what I see in real life. If you look carefully, the eyes have a bit of the backlight glow inside, and there's a barely noticeable glow around thick lines if you really look closely, but it's nowhere near what was posted here earlier.
This is with the iPad Pro set to maximum brightness.
This is with the iPad Pro set to maximum brightness.