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Color of screen

What is your true color hue on a white background ?

  • Yellowish

    Votes: 24 17.1%

  • Pinkish

    Votes: 22 15.7%

  • Greenish

    Votes: 2 1.4%

  • Pinkish/greenish

    Votes: 11 7.9%

  • Perfectly white

    Votes: 81 57.9%
  • Total voters
    140
Rodster said:
There fixed. :)

Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense.
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Haha thanks I was pretty flustered after getting off the phone with apple.

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VFC said:
You can say that about many of the individual parts used to manufacture the iPad. Is there the same variance in some of those other parts?
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No I didn't get into anymore detail concerning the iPad except for the screen conversation but who knows really. I was just too surprised that they actually and finally gave me a straight forward explanation.

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rkahl said:
We finally agree.
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Another wasted post. Moderators? :rolleyes:
 
What a *ucking relief, I am done with the iPad , returned and refunded .

Done!!
 
TheKricket said:
this is just too subjective of a topic. Everyone's eyes really are different. Someone might look at a screen and say: "Hey, that's PERFECT" - and the guy next to him might think it looks straight-up pink (or yellow, or warm, or cold, etc).
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I don't think people's eyes are that different. I think that's just people trying to accept their yellow hued ipads. Fair play if they do. But here's the thing:

I showed my ipad 2 and 3 side by side to maaany people and every single one of them chose the ipad 2 over the yellow hued 3. They simply said it looked better. AND I went home for a few days recently and a friend back there has a 3 and so we compared mine against his and EVERYBODY chose mine as the better looking machine.

You can call it subjective or whatever the hell you want, but why didn't one person choose the yellow tinted ipad? Why? Because they don't look as good.

FYI: I returned my ipad 3 and kept my 2.
 
Just bought my second iPad 3,the first I bought 2 mos ago,both have bright white screens and no backlight bleed,my sister bought 4 of them,one for each daughter and one for herself and her husband,and i have several friends who bought theirs and they are all perfect white screens,I am beginning to think there are some extremely OCD people out there or some extremely unlucky,because all I have seen are fine.
 
smoking monkey said:
I don't think people's eyes are that different. I think that's just people trying to accept their yellow hued ipads. Fair play if they do. But here's the thing:

I showed my ipad 2 and 3 side by side to maaany people and every single one of them chose the ipad 2 over the yellow hued 3. They simply said it looked better. AND I went home for a few days recently and a friend back there has a 3 and so we compared mine against his and EVERYBODY chose mine as the better looking machine.

You can call it subjective or whatever the hell you want, but why didn't one person choose the yellow tinted ipad? Why? Because they don't look as good.

FYI: I returned my ipad 3 and kept my 2.
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People would choose to have a million dollars if they had a choice, but just because they are willing to accept 100 dollars instead, it doesn't mean they have to "justify" their choice. They accept what they find acceptable, and you have no right to judge them for that choice.
 
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The tint on the iPad is part of the problem , the bigger problem is the COLOR SHIFTING!
Most iPad's if not ALL have color shifting to a degree, some much worse than other's. It's probably due to the high pixel density. I am not talking about extreme angles but just the VERY slightest shift of the iPad to the right or left you can see the color shift to a different hue.

Try it and you will see!
 
Ipadfever said:
The tint on the iPad is part of the problem , the bigger problem is the COLOR SHIFTING!
Most iPad's if not ALL have color shifting to a degree, some much worse than other's. It's probably due to the high pixel density. I am not talking about extreme angles but just the VERY slightest shift of the iPad to the right or left you can see the color shift to a different hue.

Try it and you will see!
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Can't say that I notice that problem myself. Am just happy to get rid of the pinkness.
 
Ipadfever said:
The tint on the iPad is part of the problem , the bigger problem is the COLOR SHIFTING!
Most iPad's if not ALL have color shifting to a degree, some much worse than other's. It's probably due to the high pixel density. I am not talking about extreme angles but just the VERY slightest shift of the iPad to the right or left you can see the color shift to a different hue.

Try it and you will see!
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No, mine doesn't have this either. Some of my others did though.

Finally I have settled with a good one. This one has an even screen and that's all I wanted. I couldn't stand the uneven, multi-coloured screens all my others had, they looked awful and totally ruined the retina display.
This one is definitely warmer (uniform throughout) but not yellow. I gave both Springtomize (I use this app/tweak anyway) and Color Profiles a shot and I have to say, Springtomize gamma adjustment is great. Color Profiles is also good but Springtomize definitely has that edge as you can adjust all 3 colours together - red, green and blue. I now have the 'perfect' screen :) Not too bright white where it verges on blue, but not too warm where it verges on yellow. It's great! What a wicked little tweak Springtomize has added. Can't believe Apple don't give their customers this option anyway. It's crazy. Mind you, even if they did, I'd still jailbreak ;)

If you have a uniform screen that is too warm for your liking and you JB your device, I would definitely recommend either of these tweaks. However, if your screen is uneven, I don't think they will work. They may make the screen whiter but the uneven parts will still be uneven.
 
Just last week I purchased 2 iPads for family members and was asked to set them up. Both had immediately obvious color tinting, namely dark yellow shading along the left-side of the display. There were also blotches of green tinting scattered about the screen.
 
My iPad has a uniform white balance. The first three I had were blemished with hideous yellow/green/magenta tints. Very happy with my fourth copy.
 
klover said:
Just last week I purchased 2 iPads for family members and was asked to set them up. Both had immediately obvious color tinting, namely dark yellow shading along the left-side of the display. There were also blotches of green tinting scattered about the screen.
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It shouldn't be this way, did you exchange them?
 
Well, here's another subjective data point. I just got a new ipad 3 this weekend - screen is beautiful. No pink or yellow tint problems at all. Very happy with the retina display.
 
smoking monkey said:
You can call it subjective or whatever the hell you want, but why didn't one person choose the yellow tinted ipad? Why? Because they don't look as good.

FYI: I returned my ipad 3 and kept my 2.
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I call it subjective because it is subjective.

Even if you used tested on a proper set of people (scientifically speaking, your test group was extremely small) - and they all chose one way - it wouldn't make the issue any less subjective.

Why didn't they choose the yellow tinted iPad? Because it's not the one they prefer.

What you have described is the very definition of something that is "subjective".

As far as not "thinking" that people's eyes are that different - well, they are - so you can think what you want - but people's eyes are VERY different...
 
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