I definitely see where you're coming from. It would bother me as well if half my screen was bright white and the other half a subdued yellow.
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iPad Behold: the yellow iPad Air and the (whiter but uneven Air)
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I definitely see where you're coming from. It would bother me as well if half my screen was bright white and the other half a subdued yellow.
You can't honestly claim any work you are doing on an ipad required a perfect display. The ipad can't even be color calibrated. There are professional tools and hardware for that. I agree it might be nice, but that issn't what you are buying.
Behold: the yellow iPad Air and the (whiter but uneven Air)
It took me a good 6 months to stop being bothered by the white temperature/brightness gradient of my iPad 3. It seems nearly impossible to find a display on any device with acceptably (for myself) uniform brightness or color temperature. When it comes down to it, it seems display uniformity doesn't bother most people. Unfortunately, I can't include myself in this group. Just have to accept it as the current state of consumer electronics and move on. =(
It took me a good 6 months to stop being bothered by the white temperature/brightness gradient of my iPad 3. It seems nearly impossible to find a display on any device with acceptably (for myself) uniform brightness or color temperature. When it comes down to it, it seems display uniformity doesn't bother most people. Unfortunately, I can't include myself in this group. Just have to accept it as the current state of consumer electronics and move on. =(
So did your iPad 3 have the colors shifts, like the white to slight yellow?
I gave up on the iPad 3 because I couldn't take it....everyone I had had major shifts, some with a bad green hue.
I thought most of those kinks were worked out for the iPad 4 (I didn't ever get one of those). Was hoping to be done with the color variations in these panels by now but I guess not.
Both my rMini and Air have them....but they are really subtle. Took my wife a few minutes of concentrating to find them, but she eventually did. I'm sticking with them though.....just hoping my brain stops looking to it!!
-Kevin
So did your iPad 3 have the colors shifts, like the white to slight yellow?
I gave up on the iPad 3 because I couldn't take it....everyone I had had major shifts, some with a bad green hue.
I thought most of those kinks were worked out for the iPad 4 (I didn't ever get one of those). Was hoping to be done with the color variations in these panels by now but I guess not.
Both my rMini and Air have them....but they are really subtle. Took my wife a few minutes of concentrating to find them, but she eventually did. I'm sticking with them though.....just hoping my brain stops looking to it!!
-Kevin
Yeah, I have a whiter to yellow shift towards the home button.
It is possible to get a uniform white screen. I had one on my iPad 3 first try and one on my iPad 4 after 3 returns. I'm on my 4th iPad Air and the 4th I'm happy with though it does have that minimal yellow tinge in the lower left. I see a lot of good ones in the store as well. Warmer white screens are fine and easier on the eyes, but a yellowish screen is not something I'm willing to keep - whites are dingy and colors are inaccurate on those.
Yup, same here for my Air.....very very slight yellow towards the left of the screen and more towards the bottom.
My rMini is mainly the lower 1/3ish by the home button.
Both I'm willing at this point to keep since I don't want something worse (and don't want to play the exchange game). I did that with the iPad 3 (about 8 or so exchanges). One of the biggest issues is viewing them in the store. People say check it in store before you leave. That's fine for things like dead pixels or major problems....but in store with those super bright lights, you almost never see the slight yellow tint that you would see while at home. Although I guess I could take it in the bathroom at the store
-Kevin
That would be very unusual. How did you evaluate backlight bleed? If you were using a totally black screen, it could have been dimming the whole panel, maybe even shutting off the LEDs. That sort of test is meaningless for evaluating uniformity issues and black level, and I mention it because even some reviewers don't get it. A decent, simple test would be a very dark scene in a movie with sidebars viewed in a pitch black room, with all the TV's special features like dynamic contrast, local dimming, etc disabled. LCD sets that have these features may perform better in some respects with them enabled, but they always incur side effects that may include brightness fluctuations, blooming, loss of shadow detail, etc.
Here are a couple of things that I can say with some confidence:
1. Because it has an IPS panel, it has bad black levels compared to non-IPS and horrible black levels compared to plasma.
2. If the set is edge-lit, it almost certainly has poor uniformity to boot. I would say it's nigh impossible to get one "100% perfect set" much less three in a row.
3. Being a Panasonic LED, it hasn't gotten a lot of great reviews.
And if you were getting perfect screens, WTH did you go through four of them?