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iPad Pro iPad Pro Blooming discussion [merged]
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If it irritates you now, then you made a good decision to return it. Its hard to unsee a thing like this, especially if its visible when you aren't going out of your way to look for it.
I'm kind of confused that with 2500 zones, that the lit up area is so big. Seems like it should be smaller.
I'm kind of confused that with 2500 zones, that the lit up area is so big. Seems like it should be smaller.
The blue areas are the leds lid up underneath the display. What’s weird is how far out it spreads out from the actual dot (target).
If the screen has as many zones as they claim there is no reason for the blooming to be that big. So maybe it is a software issue after all and it is something they can adjust.
Oh please LOL. If that's it, it's very bad. These look defective? But these are photos, so...
I have no clue what's going on. As far as unseeing, how do you unsee something like that? Wtf.
Worst case, they jumped the gun with the 'mini' when they clearly should have waited for micro (from the looks of that
). So they refused to use OLED as burn-in makes them all defective because of icons, etc, and they needed to do something.
I have no clue what's going on. As far as unseeing, how do you unsee something like that? Wtf.
Worst case, they jumped the gun with the 'mini' when they clearly should have waited for micro (from the looks of that
). So they refused to use OLED as burn-in makes them all defective because of icons, etc, and they needed to do something.
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honestly its the reason I returned my past vizio tvs had similar tech and similar annoying blooming, went oled. one day I hope oled gets better
This will be solved in 2022 with 5,000 dimming zones.14.7 beta 2 is the same as above
Shame as I really loved this iPad
It looks exactly like that in real life. But you need to be in a pitch black room. If you are in normal lighting then you won't see it.Oh please LOL. If that's it, it's very bad. These look defective? But these are photos, so...
I have no clue what's going on. As far as unseeing, how do you unsee something like that? Wtf.
Worst case, they jumped the gun with the 'mini' when they clearly should have waited for micro (from the looks of that
I can see that. An optical thing. That may be ok, if you avoid scenarios that would be unlikely anyway, which is reasonable, I guess. I'll need to test mine
I have one, but haven't gotten around to it. I'm not going to push it though. I'm not going to look for trouble
The point is that with 2596 dimming zones on a 12inch screen there is no reason the blooms should be so big.
There is definitely a problem with the display whether its software or hardware. It does not live up to its specs.
looks like that if you use a phone camera but unless you have the eyes of an owl your not seeing that like that pic.
Do you have the new ipad? I do and I noticed the blooming right away. And yes it looks exactly like that.
Yeah, mine doesn't do any crap like this. If I turn it up to full brightness in a dark room I can see it sometimes, but it's not this bad, and I tried something interesting. I masked off the area where the bright parts are, and I see less bloom. It's so bright it's like it makes bloom in your eyes and in cameras, kinda like a lens flare. It's so bright it's lighting up the air between your iPad and eyes as it spreads out and you can see that, kinda like the beam of a flashlight in a dark place. But having seen some of these posts on here, I think there is definitely something up. I do professional design work and photography. I understand how light works and I have an irritatingly high bar for displays and details like this and it just doesn't bother me. Makes me think there are defective units and/or software issues that are lighting up too many surrounding zones or something. Perhaps the algorithm is off and it only presents itself in certain situations? Apple does so much tweaking and tinkering with their displays to make them look amazing that I wouldn't be surprised if that complexity introduces more bugs sometimes.
Same here. the photo makes it a bit worse than it really is but that’s what I see too. Only under dark conditions though.
it‘s as if it’s using the 70 dimming zones instead of 2596
Bloom is inevitable. There isn’t a 1:1 pixel to light match and so light leakage is inevitable.
Thats one of the problems since i did the restore you can see it too in normal lighting conditions, its hard to see but its now noticeable, which is was not before the restore.
Again you are right I didn’t notice it before the restore in my original post, it’s MUCH worse and you can see it with your own eyes since the restore. Before it no so many zones where switched on.
Yes i understand, but the display and LEDs are driven by software, and what I’m saying is if you look at the image i posted there are several dimming zones at and lit up that don’t need to be. This was not like this prior to me doing a software restore. Before the zones around the pointer where switched off more, this is why I’m saying it maybe software released. I probably didn’t word that correctly, I think software can be tweaked to make the blooming less noticeable. In this case something as cleared changed, as before it had more then half them dimming zones switched off!
Anyone wanting to show the effect should be doing this. Take the bright spot out of the equation altogether and focus on the pixels that should be black
