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Blooming/Elevated Black Levels on new 16" MacBook Pro.

ponzicoinbro said:
Even our human eyes are not perfect. Our vision also adds blooming effects around bright objects on dark areas. Just go outside and look at a street lamp at 2AM in the morning :)

Even worse when we are drinking alcohol or some other intoxicant.
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Haha that’s true. Heck I see blooming on OLED because light scatters in real life!
 
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Lower your screen brightness? I don’t have this problem at all. All Mini LED displays that are not huge will exhibit blooming, but it’s also amplified by the fact that you have inky blacks even when the screen brightness is max. The bright spots are like piercing bullets by contrast.

You could also have a faulty panel, or the video source might be a problem. Either way, my panel looks fantastic at all levels of brightness. Super happy with it.
 
Serban55 said:
once...the LG has OLED...and twice i bet that LG is not producing 1000nits....so in not apple for apple
Find and record for us an OLED with 1000nits
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Hehe, LG produces ALL oled tv panels for every brand. And their latest panel can hit 1300 nits. Sony A90J.
 
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My display on my 14 is magnificent. Maybe if I go to a dark room with HDR and sit 2 inches from the screen there is minor blooming but for day to day use it’s a beautiful screen in an unbelievable machine.
 
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My screen looks great to me. I am not noticing any of this and I don't plan to look for issues. I also exit the movie when the credits roll.
 
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Strange, I don’t notice this at all on my new MacBook and I notice it all the time on my iPad.
 
JBGoode said:
This won't be an issue for most people as they don't buy $3k laptops to watch movie credits in the dark.:rolleyes:
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But it might be one for people who buy a $3k+ laptop to edit movies in the dark. Or edit photos in the dark.
 
Janichsan said:
But it might be one for people who buy a $3k+ laptop to edit movies in the dark. Or edit photos in the dark.
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Don't work in complete darkness, it's really simple :)

also photos that are completely black and show blooming are probably underexposed lol. That should not happen
 
I kind of like the blooming. Gives the screen a soft movie-like effect. Cinematographers often add mist filters in front of their lenses to achieve the same thing lol.
 
No this wasn't predicted at all, complete with the "mine doesn't do this" garbage.

This is about the same to the ipad IMO. That said, doesn't look this bad under normal conditions and usually only when you view the screen from a severe angle.

I have also found it depends on the content whether elevated blacks are an issue into the black bars. I see it on the ipad as well at times. Other times it looks really good with minimal bloom outside of the content.

I've watched a bunch of YouTube HDR and for the most part it looks great on the ipad. Check out the Las Vegas HDR on YouTube and you will see the dimming zones work quite well. (on the ipad)

Anyway, I agree than 2500 dimming zones should preform better. Perhaps software fixable?
 
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flapflapflap said:
Apple clearly rushed these products for the holidays. I’m glad I cancelled my 16 order.
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How do you know that for sure? You think the blooming means they rushed these MacBooks to market? Please do cancel your order so one of us can get our new MBP sooner. Thanks flapflap!
 
The camera where you took picture is over exposing as the main part of area is black. The camera sensor is exposing for grey. To make this happen, the sensor tells to canera to raise the exposure :)
 
WilliamG said:
Absolutely. Except on my OLED LG CX this is pure black. And this phenomenon is visible on any movie, including in the black bars (e.g. 2:35.1 movies). That’s simply not right. It’s like the display isn’t fully shutting off the LEDs when it should be.
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Not to excuse what you are experiencing with these MiniLED displays, but I would not be holding up OLED as the standard MiniLED should be matching. OLED lights individual pixels so that significantly eliminates the chance of light bleed or blooming of the surrounding area (I have an LG B8) whereas MiniLED is lighting an area of pixels so the LCD shutters can only do so much to block light that must pass through. And as noted by others, our OLED TVs hit around half the peak nit brightness as the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro displays so that likely helps suppress any blooming / bleeding between very bright areas next to dark areas.
 
The safari thing is definitely a bug. The blooming from multiple reviewers said not a big deal and no where close to iPad.
 
CWallace said:
Not to excuse what you are experiencing with these MiniLED displays, but I would not be holding up OLED as the standard MiniLED should be matching. OLED lights individual pixels so that significantly eliminates the chance of light bleed or blooming of the surrounding area (I have an LG B8) whereas MiniLED is lighting an area of pixels so the LCD shutters can only do so much to block light that must pass through. And as noted by others, our OLED TVs hit around half the peak nit brightness as the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro displays so that likely helps suppress any blooming / bleeding between very bright areas next to dark areas.
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OLEDs do not bloom, period. because of how the work, as you described.

New OLEDs can reach 1300 nits but because of my first point its irrelevant with regards to blooming.
 
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