Thanks for the posts. I appreciate all you guys, well almost all, you guys chiming in, this has turned well and I didn't expect that. @pinky, christian, klover, mac, roadster. thanks guys.
The point of this thread cause someone asked is to find out if others have had issues with contrast.
Also to answer to someone, at the moment I don't have an apple store close and I am buying from resellers which have a non returns policy unless it's dead on arrival. Hence my options are pretty much resell it, or suffer through it. I got lucky because the first one had a manufacturing glitch on the aluminum, and I was able to return it, cause otherwise I 'd have had a hard time to have them take it back just on a screen issue. I guess maybe I need to contact apple directly and see what I can do, cause it's going to be a bummer to have to resell all the time, and the road might be long till I get one with a good screen.
To the point: Anyone else notice contrast issues? The ipad 3 is supposed to be brighter than the ipad 2, yet I can't bare the contrast on this thing. It's either bleeding my eyes from the light when I use it close to max, or max, and when I have it at above average not much pops from the screen. Sure the retina is great, and sure enough it's day and night in text clarity compared to the previous gen, but I can't really enjoy it when the contrast seems so poor.
Shouldn't the new ipad be brighter than the older one, I was reading they have about the same contrast too (or rather they are supposed to) in specs. Then how come my minimal brightness settings on this are so much dimmer than on the gen two I have. Surely, this has to be a poor contrast panel.
I do plan to keep buying until I get one that has a good screen btw. I stood in line for a first ipad, and I was waiting for one 3 years before they put it to market. I admire apple for the device they made, I might criticize them on a lot of fronts, I might also not like how the os hasn't evolved as much on the ipad, but I have never doubted what a huge leap forward the ipad has been, on the contrary I have praised their foresight even before it was released and the end product after. I like the ipad so much that despite being very aware by gauging from these and other forums about what I might be facing when buying one in terms of the screen problems, I went ahead and bought one.
Too bad about the screen qc products, and they are there, they are not imaginary.
I guess I won the lottery then, cause I only had to buy one new iPad (3) and I love my screen
Now mind you, I have never felt the need to test it for dead pixels, view it in a pitch black room or compare it to my wife's iPad 1 or any other iPad for that matter
I just bought it and use it
I don't mind one or two dead pixels, and both my ipad 1 and 2 had back light bleed. I couldn't care less about that either. And the reason I put it side by side to my ipad 2 was because there was again something about the display that was off putting, and I said what is it that makes me want to use one ipad, and not the other. But nice try at playing (covertly) the you are ocd card.
@kurosov, I didn't refer to people as minions, I referred to the minions compulsively attacking other users at apple forums on the slightest hint that one might have some dissatisfaction with an apple product, as minions. I am sorry to say this apple related forums do attract this kind of posting, unlike say sony's or lenovo's, or anyone elses for that matter.
