I think it may be the PWM, i am not seeing much grain. Idk, i am going to have to fire up the old tablet and see what i see. I would hate for that to happen, that i am not compatible with this truly good looking display
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iPad Pro Grainy display on new iPad Pro M4?
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so PWM could cause eye strain and that could lead to the feeling of it being blurry. i am not sure. Just that the text seems soft.
I went to the Apple Store and the staff member pointed out to me that it’s the same on all of their display models as well. So I just accept that my M4 iPad Pro may look a little grainy in some conditions. That being said Apple should try to work on a software fix to make things slightly sharper.
Realistically, I doubt it really bothers many people, I think what bothers people is knowing their display has a defect… but if they are all like this, then I know that actually makes me feel better and happier with the iPad.. I guess it’s the OCD in me xD
I agree, however i do think people will notice that the text is soft around the edges and end up returning it for that never knowing it was actually screen grain.
Maybe on a scale from 1-10 your display has a grain of 2 and other people have a grain of 6.
Perhaps you falsely say they are blowing it out of proportion because you falsely think they are complaining about a 2 but if you had their display you would feel different.
Best we can do is let this play out and hope in 6 months Apple has worked with manufacturers to resolve it. We already have reports of people who complained having exchanged for a second model that did not have a grain issue.
Once you get very close (your picture is super macro) you can inevitably see the matrix structure of the display. It then becomes hard to assess how this looks to the naked eye. It would be better to increase the distance a little and include a greater area of grey.
The comparison image I posted a couple of pages back was taken from a PNG source and uploaded as a PNG. This hopefully avoids some of the artefact and smoothing issues which come from JPG compression.
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i think the most telling thing from your image is not the grain / matrix, is the anti aliasing of the text to be more soft than the IPS
Samsung's OLEDs don't use this tandem-stacked two panels that Apple is using. Wonder if that's what's causing the problem?
Crazy though that everyone acted like going from miniLED to OLED was nothing but benefits.
Uhm, that looks like a snip from a screenshot...
EDIT: ignore - someone else already caught that this is a screen cap
YOUR OLD TIRED EYES CANT SEE IT I SEE GRAINS GRAINS EVERYWHERE
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? That's a screen grab.
That does show the graininess people are referring to. Though for what I personally perceive (dynamic noise) you'd really need a video version of that, preferably slow-mo.
I’m not seeing anything like that. I have iPad 13 Pro 1TB. Could it be the increased ram on some models?
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It was impossible to get the same camera focus, aliasing is the same. (The ’Display zoom’ setting on both iPads is also set to ‘more space’).
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This looks like blur screenshot, is that a photo taken with a phone? Is that low brightness?
And that would be something, if RAM increase had anything to do with grainy screens LOL.