Basically the total lack of contrast on the screen has made me very tired of watching vids on the thing. I remember going to the Apple Store and seeing a lost clip on the Iphone when they came out, then assuming the touch would have the same screen, it did'nt. There's nothing wrong with my Week 47 screen, and I've compared them to other touch's and my Buddy's latest Iphone and they are pretty much all the same. The clarity is there, but the screen loses much depth because there is no deep blacks only greys. Watching a show or movie that is bright it looks ok, but try watching a darker show like 24 and it's terrible. I encoded the same file to my PSP Slim and even my 3 year old Cowon A2 and both blow it away for contrast, and the Cowon is ancient and using .avi files for cripes sake. I'll probably keep the touch for music, wifi and the apps that will be coming, but I'm very dissapointed in how Apple cheaped out on the screen for a $400 device
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iPod touch The Touch's screen I'm tired of it.
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Get in touch with Apple and they'll probably replace it for you. This a known issue, but not necessarily a 'feature' of the iPod touch - it's a faulty screen.
It's not a faulty screen, it's not the well know negative black screen, it is the way it is. I've looked at many Touch's and Phones and they are all like this, there is no contrast to the screen the blacks are grey. If they replaced it , it would be the same.
So i just ordered one last night... is the screen going to be worse then watching it on my old Hp Ipaq rx3115?
No, mine is vivid! great colors
Mine is great to watch videos. Great colors. No complaints.
Mine is good for videos in the car or waiting rooms and what not.
I have a HDTV with Blu-Ray player if I want an awesome picture! Its a portable player not a home entertainment system, lol.
I have a HDTV with Blu-Ray player if I want an awesome picture! Its a portable player not a home entertainment system, lol.
You guys must be awfully acomodating for picture quality or you have not owned many PMP's. Will it be worse than the Ipaq I would imagine it would be a quite bit better than that. Colors are ok, the problem is with contrast ratio. It's a bright clear screen, but with no decent black levels it tends to look dull and lifeless. Do any of you guys own a PSP, encode two of the same files for both devices and tell me which looks better from a level of black
I would take yours in and compare it to store iPT models if you can. That doesn't sound normal to me.
Get over it already. The iPod Touch is not an HD TV, so you can't expect that kind of quality. Granted there are other products that have better LCD screens. I have an early model PSP and find the video quality between it and the Touch to be the same. The Touch is good enough for the market that it was designed for and considering the limited memory (32GB max) it mainly is for audio content. When the Touch gets memory numbers like other HD based iPods, then we can start whining about the screen quality. But for now we should be happy we such an amazing touch screen device. Image if you could go back 10 years and show something like this off to your friends.
If ya want deep colors, get a sony clie vz90. I can't complain about my touch because i don't watch much dark films, I use my ipod as my anime pod so its all good for me.
The device was put out mainly to watch video on, it was Apple's Larger video Ipod, I'm not sure how you are figuring it was designed for audio mostly. And as such it should have the best screen Possible. Especially for a $400 device.
I'm going to add to the "My screen looks perfect" category... sorry. My screen is actually better than my girlfriend's screen and my girlfriend's friend's screen... they're all iPod touch's. Oh and mine is a week 38 and they got theirs at Christmas time.
Having used many models of Palm PDA's since the original US Robotics Pilot 1000 days, I have to say that the iPod Touch's screen, in my opinion, blows the doors off of anything I have used in the past. The fact that it's hard glass is very refreshing, providing the durability I need. The clarity of the screen is simply amazing Reading Web pages in Safari is so easy and comfortable because the letters appear so clear.
Admittedly, I don't watch many videos on my iPT, as I use it primarily as a PDA. It's possible that video playback might have issues here or there. But isn't that the fault of the player app? Some video player apps on Palm PDA's had brightness and contrast settings, but they were specific to the player , and not the hardware. Maybe Apple needs to provide additional settings for the player app to tweak this. But I don't think it's the fault of the hardware.
My only real complaint in the design is that the brightness control in Settings isn't "fine-grained" enough. I almost always keep mine set at about the 10% mark (only about 1mm of blue showing on the left side of the gauge) with Auto-brightness "on". Any higher than that, and it's simply too bright. It would be nice to be able to have finer control over the brightness. Also, keeping the brightness down REALLY saves on battery life.
Admittedly, I don't watch many videos on my iPT, as I use it primarily as a PDA. It's possible that video playback might have issues here or there. But isn't that the fault of the player app? Some video player apps on Palm PDA's had brightness and contrast settings, but they were specific to the player , and not the hardware. Maybe Apple needs to provide additional settings for the player app to tweak this. But I don't think it's the fault of the hardware.
My only real complaint in the design is that the brightness control in Settings isn't "fine-grained" enough. I almost always keep mine set at about the 10% mark (only about 1mm of blue showing on the left side of the gauge) with Auto-brightness "on". Any higher than that, and it's simply too bright. It would be nice to be able to have finer control over the brightness. Also, keeping the brightness down REALLY saves on battery life.
Sorry, but it was not mainly to watch video as you can see by the WWD conference sell out, but a business device for running applications and a as a small computer device. Apple probably should not have labeled it an ipod because it is far more than that!