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Backlight bleeding
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Those bleed pics look pretty bad. I have a white bezel and pulled up the camera app (with the smart cover pulled back to darken the screen like I saw in the shot on this page). Not seeing any bleed of any kind on mine, from any corner, pressing or not. I'd be pretty bummed if I did.
Maybe it's not all units? I would be taking mine back if it had as much light leak as I saw on some of the pics in this thread.
Hang in there - that stinks.
Maybe it's not all units? I would be taking mine back if it had as much light leak as I saw on some of the pics in this thread.
Hang in there - that stinks.
well anyone who has the original iPad with bleeding issues and didnt return it....
..seriously...
i have the original and don't have any backlight bleeding whatsoever or yellowish tint...and if I did I would have returned it...whats wrong with you people keeping something that isn't right?
anyone who has it with their iPad2 its unacceptable, don't think you have to live with it...just go return it for a new one ASAP
..seriously...i have the original and don't have any backlight bleeding whatsoever or yellowish tint...and if I did I would have returned it...whats wrong with you people keeping something that isn't right?
anyone who has it with their iPad2 its unacceptable, don't think you have to live with it...just go return it for a new one ASAP
The weakest point of the whole body is where the speaker is and thats why so many people i see having bleed right in the same spot which is above the speaker..
Its the only place i can find where the screen flexes so clearly some irregularities in the chassis are probably putting pressure right on that point of the screen.
I know others have bleeding in different spots but the most i have read is all to the right of the home button.
Its the only place i can find where the screen flexes so clearly some irregularities in the chassis are probably putting pressure right on that point of the screen.
I know others have bleeding in different spots but the most i have read is all to the right of the home button.
I'm planning on returning mine but I feel that this could be a common manufacturing issue.
I hope I'm wrong.
A lot of the pictures that have been posted here are obviously of unacceptable defects.
I checked mine out and it is fine. I was able to see some bleeding with a black screen, brightness all the way up, in a pitch black room. I couldn't see the bleeding if the room was even dimly lit, so I don't care.
Good luck to all.
I checked mine out and it is fine. I was able to see some bleeding with a black screen, brightness all the way up, in a pitch black room. I couldn't see the bleeding if the room was even dimly lit, so I don't care.
Good luck to all.
My dad's iPad 1 (with the brightness turned all the way up) shows bleeding. Honestly it doesn't bother me a bit. The one I got today (Black Verizon 32 GB) is darn near perfect. I could sit here and inspect every pixel and find something wrong I'm sure. In fact every touch device I own has minor bleeding. All from Apple.
Good Lord. How did these even leave the factory? Perhaps they misread Apple for Acer, and therefore let this slip to consumers hands.
After messing around a bit more with mine, it's very VERY noticeable at very high brightness. The thing is, I usually have my brightness around maybe 15%. The question is... can this bleed LEAD to any potential issues down the road, or is it perfectly fine if it simply doesn't bother you?
Yeah it will be just fine if it does not bother you so dont worry about it if your happy/satisfied with it .
Mine is not as bad as some i have seen but still enough to bother me and i keep my screen very bright all the time so yeah ill notice it more and turning down the brightness to subdue the effect is not something i am willing to do .
Sometimes i wish i was a person who was willing to deal with imperfections but yeah i am not ..
Mine is not as bad as some i have seen but still enough to bother me and i keep my screen very bright all the time so yeah ill notice it more and turning down the brightness to subdue the effect is not something i am willing to do .
Sometimes i wish i was a person who was willing to deal with imperfections but yeah i am not ..
I have a relative I just bought the 16gb iPad for and I asked him to look at a black image on the camera roll and yep, on the when holding the iPad in standard portrait mode he gets a significant bleed on the bottom corner to the left of the home button. Looks like I'm gonna return it this weekend.
Yeah, it really is bad. I have a first generation iPad and there is zero bleed -- I've seen many original iPads and none of them had any bleed. Could it be that the new thin design has forced them to squeeze in he LCD in ways that damage it? Or that they have modified the panel to fit? Or maybe just a different supplier?
In any case, don't accept that kind of bleed - take them back! You'll be doing us all a favour by forcing apple to address the issue...if there is one.
This just raises the need for apple to implement Super AMOLED technology where there is no backlight thus no bleeding issues and the absolute deepest blacks you can get. Just compare the black bezel to the black on the screen, it's Gray.
Ridiculous apple made no changes to the display. I'm actually kind of expecting the iPad 3 to have an OLED display since LCD is outdated and AMOLED has better black levels, refresh rate, colour contrast and viewing angles.
Ridiculous apple made no changes to the display. I'm actually kind of expecting the iPad 3 to have an OLED display since LCD is outdated and AMOLED has better black levels, refresh rate, colour contrast and viewing angles.
Out of the 8 iPads between me, my 3 sisters, father and grandfather we have ZERO bleeding. Out of the 10+ lcd tv's between my house, my parents and my grandparents we have ZERO bleeding. Soooo do you even know what you are talking bout?
Yeah I've seen bleeding on sets that are absolute garbage...sorry but 99.99% of people don't consider apple garbage.
For people wanting to exchange, something to think about is the fact that you might get one with even worse backlight bleed.
I think if the bleed is minor on yours (a lot of the pics so far seem to be) and turning down the brightnesss makes them go away, then don't bother exchanging, there are people with far worse bleeding.
I think if the bleed is minor on yours (a lot of the pics so far seem to be) and turning down the brightnesss makes them go away, then don't bother exchanging, there are people with far worse bleeding.
I plan to return mine (best buy) but would like to walk out with a replacement.
Who knows when new stock will be available.
Out of the 8 iPads between me, my 3 sisters, father and grandfather we have ZERO bleeding. Out of the 10+ lcd tv's between my house, my parents and my grandparents we have ZERO bleeding. Soooo do you even know what you are talking bout?
Sorry but he is right, and you have no clue what you are talking about. You have some completely unprovable anecdotal evidence. More than likely you are just not using them under the right conditions to see the bleeding. Most LCD TV's these days for example have dynamic dimming, so on an all black image the backlight turns all the way down and hides any bleeding.
On iPads if you are in pitch black room with the brightness turned to max on an all black image, the bleeding is more noticible, but even for some people they might not even see it still (everyones eyes are different). This is true of the iPad 1 and of course it's true of the iPad 2.
Some iPad screens have worse bleeding than others, and I can bet that most have only minimal bleeding and people of course are overblowing it. Even iPhone 4s have some minor backlight bleed (though it is extremly hard to spot on small displays).
Here is a tip, take a camera with and put it in manual mode in a dark room. Set the exposure to be really long, point it at an LCD screen (without dynamic dimming) showing the black image. I gaurantee every single time you will see backlight bleed on every single LCD except really high end professional displays where they hand pick every panel and use an expensive process to insure the backlight seal, or they place the backlight behind the display instead of the edges.
Also before you say that only "cheap" displays show it, something to remember is that even the most expensive display you buy from a store has the same level of cheap manufacturing as the cheapest display you can buy. Cost of the display is more about features, and less about manufacturing quality.