i still don't believe anyone who has perfect black levels / bleeding.

[Star56]

Are either of you medical professionals? Probably not. OCD can very well be characterized as a disease - as it presents with signs and symptoms, and it is correlated with an actual physiological change. People with OCD typically have an atrophied frontal cortex and hippocampus.

Disorders are a type of disease, but the word disorder is much less stigmatized, hence it's use in mental "disorders". Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), for instance, is a disease - there is a change, typically again in the frontal cortex and hippocampus, as well as a change in cytokines, chemokines, and other neural and hormonal chemicals found in the body.

Further, no one here should be diagnosing someone over the internet. Using "OCD" as an insult is not only childish, it's demeaning to individuals who actually have the disease and have to live with it.

EDIT: That said, obsessing over something like this, just as some do with letter grades, is often egosyntonic and can be characterized as OCPD (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder), which generally doesn't impede a patients quality of life and is very, very common.

Actually I am. I have taught psychopathology to college students for 25 years and chaired the Psychology department at my college for 15 years.

Your knowledge of OCD is sorely lacking. The OP's concerns are typical of OCDers and I suspect this is exactly what is producing his obsessive concern with light leakage.

 

[ri0ku]

Actually I am. I have taught psychopathology to college students for 25 years and chaired the Psychology department at my college for 15 years.

Your knowledge of OCD is sorely lacking. The OP's concerns are typical of OCDers and I suspect this is exactly what is producing his obsessive concern with light leakage.

You have taught the same thing for 25 years? maybe YOU have OCD!? :O

I joke...I joke...

But the other guy is right, anyone who uses OCD as a form of insult is childish uncalled for and it is demeaning to those who actually have it. I jumped in because Im sick and bored of people who use OCD as some sort of insult on these forums.

I thought this place had bright smart and generally nice and friendly people on it.... Well I guess there is always some bad apples. But you know..... theres allot more friendly nice and helpful people on here than there is negative or nasty people. So that I guess cancels out the negativity.

I think il just ignore such posts from now on.

 

[Fuchal]

Every LCD looks like this in the dark at 100% brightness. Thankfully that is an unrealistic situation.

 

[hsotnicam8002]

This post has made me paranoid about the light bleed issue (or non-issue as the case may be). Sorry for the truly paranoid - I use the term with poetic licence and don't want to offend anyone. Actually maybe I am paranoid... Anyway, I use my iPad through the night in darkness. (I retired a few years ago due to ill and the neck problem I have keeps me awake. Luckily I can lay in just the right position to prop the iPad and watch movies, read ebooks etc). Anyway (again) I have really been noticing the light bleed. I have adjusted the brightness down to the lowest level that I can accept but in complete darkness the bleed is irritating on black areas of the screen, especially the edges.

So, although I think the iPad is magical (had to get that in) and I wouldn't give it up for anything, I can definitely say that the bleed is irritating and is certainly more than on my MacBook.

So peeps, put that in your pipe and smoke it. (But not while using your iPad in bed!)