I think its pretty clear what happened with the bleeding screen issue

[Gil22]

That is his fault. He should have opened and inspected the unit in-store.

Why do that if only less than 1% have defects? "his fault" I love it!

 

[Gil22]

There may in fact be a real, widespread issue, point though is that 1) it isn't likely, and 2) this forum is in NO WAY an accurate representation of that.

Even if the %'s here ended up close to the real thing, it would just be a coincidence.

Do you own a flat screen TV?

If you do, go look up an AV forum and check out the threads for your specific model.

You will most likely be shocked at how "widespread" the "massive" amounts of defective units there are out in the wild.....

I honestly just did and couldnt find any?

 

[goMac]

I have a professional model HDTV (Samsung model specifically for editing and monitoring) and I have very light bleeding if I turn up the brightness and have a black background.

That said, I don't think the bleeding that is being seen by a few people is acceptable. But it's hard to totally avoid on LCDs.

Of course the OP could also just take it back to the store and get it exchanged.

 

[Sodner]

I beginning to have a change of heart on this bleeding issue. I mean look at the other thread on this and there are some sorry looking screens in there.

One guy with a 16 black and 32 white both looking horrible. And don't tell me those two units came off the same "batch."

This is unacceptable Apple!

 

[Jcoz]

I honestly just did and couldnt find any?

Well I'm not sure what model you've got but back when I was heavy into the latest and greatest in HD TV's, this was really, really common, to have these "issues" that looked, from the forums, like a massive recall was sure to happen....

Long story short, it was a case like others have described, where it was an extreme minority very vocal because mostly they had real problems, but people that were happy were either not members or non responsive to such polls....

Like I said before, I'm not saying there are definitely no widespread issues with these ipad 2's.....just that if you were to try to gauge the extent from this forum you are doing yourself a disservice because it would appear that 60%+ of the ipad 2's sold are affected and that would cause a much bigger "panic"...

I mean honestly, its been almost a week......do you REALLY think that its plausible that 300,000-600,000 people have unacceptable light leakage and this is not a bigger story?

Stop for a moment, seriously, and think logically about the value of the clicks these days on the internet.

Some of the pics are AWFUL here, this is a monster opportunity for clicks....the more negative the story is the better it seems....if the defective units were out in the numbers some are implying, this story would be bigger than anttenagate.

 

[Jcoz]

Why do that if only less than 1% have defects? "his fault" I love it!

BTW, there is also a guy in that thread who said he went through 5 original ipads before he found one that had no bleeding.

Guess I should take that as meaning 80% or 12 million of the original ipads were defective bleeders too, right?

Of course not. Just saying, give it some time and we will find out.

Me personally, when I get mine, if it is defective, I will go to the apple store for an exchange, have them open it in the store, and if its similar or worse, I'll return it an wait it out, and either get one in a couple months or I'll know by then that Apple can't seem to make a good ipad 2.

That doesn't seem likely though, does it? I mean I hope not...

 

[Hyakku]

Why do that if only less than 1% have defects? "his fault" I love it!

Yes because he could have...gasp, just taken his money back and not bought it?


Seriously, people ignore this as if it is not an option.

Just. Don't. Buy. An. Ipad 2. Problem Solved.

I honestly think some people are like those desperate people in failing relationships, they want to feel like they have power so they threaten to leave their partner, and when the other responds with nonchalance they hang around at the door getting ready to "really go". Just go and don't look back, what's the problem?

 

[patp]

ok good, should be easy to get them to replace mine since its a random defective one then

there you go. if something is wrong with your iPad, Apple will replace it. You get a new unit, you're happy. We all move on.

 

[WilliamG]

I actually believe that more than 60% of iPad 2s have bleeding issues. But don't listen to me. I've only used about five of them. Two of my own/wife's, and three of my friends. All have varying amounts of bleed.

And for those who went to the store and checked them out and there was no bleed, you simply cannot tell under that kind of lighting.

 

[tschur]

I was told once by a civil servant that politicians use the following rule:
if you get a letter of complaint, assume that at least one other person is also unhappy.
if you get a letter of thanks, assume that at least FIFTEEN other people are also happy.

Simple fact is - if there's something wrong, you take the opportunity to complain. If nothing's wrong, the vast majority of people will just get on with their lives and not say anything at all. So when you look at the forums, look at the number of people saying 'Mine's fine' and weight it much more than the number of people complaining.

Simple answer then - it's impossible to tell from the forums what percentage of people are suffering from problems with the iPad, before you even think about the fact that most people here are more likely to notice the problem in the first place than Joe Public.

While this "rule" is a good example of general stupidity (the politician's), I agree with the last point here about the forum and your average consumer.

No matter how much it costs, or how "magic" it's alleged to be, the iPad 2 is just another mass-produced consumer electronic, imperfect, destined for obsolescence in a few years.

Apple management doesn't care about the backlight bleed because they're not petty consumers like us. They're petty in other ways that don't involve checking for backlight bleed...

 

[thesiren]

60%! That's quite a number. Derived through math or pulling-out-of-butt?

teehee


butt.

Do you work for FUDsters or something? Why maximizing what seems to be a fairly small issue with release of the new iPads?

You're funny. I like you.

 

[marmiteturkey]

While this "rule" is a good example of general stupidity (the politician's), I agree with the last point here about the forum and your average consumer.

No matter how much it costs, or how "magic" it's alleged to be, the iPad 2 is just another mass-produced consumer electronic, imperfect, destined for obsolescence in a few years.

Apple management doesn't care about the backlight bleed because they're not petty consumers like us. They're petty in other ways that don't involve checking for backlight bleed...

Why stupid? It's absolutely true that people are far more likely to complain about a problem than to thank you when things go right. I promise you there is a silent majority reading these forums who don't even bother to click through links that say 'BACKLIGHT BLEEDING PROBLEM ZOMG WTF????!!!!!!' - they check to see if their's has it, once, and then ignore any thread that even looks like it might be about the issue they don't have. Simple human nature.

 

[litfuel]

I actually believe that more than 60% of iPad 2s have bleeding issues. But don't listen to me. I've only used about five of them. Two of my own/wife's, and three of my friends. All have varying amounts of bleed.

And for those who went to the store and checked them out and there was no bleed, you simply cannot tell under that kind of lighting.

Yeah, I have 2 that have it and my friends also has it, I went to the apple store and they tried to swap out my white one but after looking at 4 they said mine was the least amount. They also swapped out my black one for one with less bleeding. So far I've seen 100% of ipads with bleeding.