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iPad 3 LCD panel lottery

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Chupa Chupa said:
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Retina is a marketing moniker not a technology. Samsung has plenty experience making panels & there really is nothing new about them. There's bound to be some defective panels that get through -- that's normal. But generally we'll all end up winners unless you are super OCD.
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False. These panels are indeed a brand new technology. They are a worlds first for pixel density on a screen this size. The pixels are elevated from the electronic signals. This has never been done before and there is a video for this on Apple's website.

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There is a general consensus here, likely jaded from OCD Apple consumers, that LCD discrepancies are something of a "nit pick". This is very far from true. Again, I am a certified Apple technician and spend all day looking at same make same model Apple products. While it IS true that a lot of the differences are minimal and not a big deal. There is a considerable amount of differences in brightness/contrast. Say what you will, but this is a pretty big deal to me on a product that is 90 percent screen... If I get a bad LCD why don't wanna you guys trade me since it is no big deal?
 
ClarkWGrizwald said:
False. These panels are indeed a brand new technology..
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Also false. The panels aren't a new technology.

See here: http://gigaom.com/apple/the-science-behind-the-new-ipads-display/

Last paragraph, my emphasis added: "What’s interesting to note also is that DisplaySearch says this technique isn’t new, nor did Apple invent it. Rather, engineers at Sharp and JSR, a Japanese display materials manufacturer, came up with it. Just as with Gorilla Glass, the super-tough-to-crack glass from Corning that Apple brought to the mainstream with the original iPhone, with SHA Apple again shows its knack for seeing the potential of — and successfully integrating — other company’s products into its own by packaging them in a compelling way."
 
Lol. wow. Never said Apple invented it. The ENTIRE point here is that this is indeed NEW and DIFFERENT technology that has NEVER been used in an iPad display. Therefore: chances of problems are more likely...
 
kobyh15 said:
Would the fact that Samsung seems to be the sole provider of the displays have an effect on consistency? At least they would all be coming off the same assembly line.
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I was hoping for that but that report was refuted that it will actually have LG displays. Not sure how I feel about that, if I remember correctly last year was LG on the iPad 2. :eek::mad:
 
It could possibly help if samsung is the sole manufacturer. But would in no way guarantee anything. Samsung generally makes superior LCDs. However when dealing with an Apple contract, the guidelines/requirements are so strict that most brands can be considered equal. Manufacturers have nothing to do with LCD inconsistency.
 
ClarkWGrizwald said:
Again, and this is not a new point, Quality control, consistency, and superior build are part of the reason consumers pay a premium price tag for Apple products. It is nothing to be scoffed at. Apple is the worlds biggest, most popular brand. If they are "setting the bar" for tablets, it is MORE than reasonable to hold them up to the standards that they themselves have set..
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So exactly WHY are you assuming they will put out a horribly inconsistent product this time?You are aware they inspect these panels before shipping right?
They don't just take a finished panel and slap it into an iPad without lighting it and say"sure hope that one's OK"and toss it in a shipping box.

Again you are predicting ultra huge defects in these panels not some very subtle thing you have to look at two blown up pictures to see.
 
ArztMac said:
Of course there will be an outcry on forums like these.

A small % of registered users here will receive an iPad with some backlight bleeding, some will have a warm or yellow color temperature, some will be too blue, some will have uneven backlighting, etc. This is just physics coming into play. And don't forget, these tablets are put together by hand. So there will be some subtle differences. There must be, it's just a statistical fact.

But looking at these forums in the coming week or so, one will likely get the impression that tons of users are affected, while there might be just a fraction of a percentage point crying foul. Everyone else is happy and will use it with joy and without sounding off on internet chat boards.

Just remember, you can always take it back for a refund or swap... And you will NOT hold onto this iPad forever, must of us over here will use it 12 months at max, sell it on eBay with a $100-150 hit, and then buy the new iPad with a quad core CPU, faster graphics, touch sensitive panel, etc.

So enjoy your new iPad while it lasts. It will not be a bond that'll last forever. So don't worry if you get a slightly imperfect model, everybody will have one that is slightly off. Who cares???

Looking forward to my black new iPad, 32GB WiFi, coming this Friday!
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This is really insightful advice.

I used to obsess over each and every Apple product I bought. Was the brightness uniformity sufficient? Was the color temperature close to a perfect 6500K? Was the home button straight? Was there a single piece of otherwise invisible dust between the glass?

Over time, I eventually realized that the principle of "I've paid a premium so I expect it to be perfect" is a nice belief but completely incongruent with the realities of a mass-produced product; hand-assembled products made in low-paying factories will inherently come with minor defects, out-of-spec calibrations, etc.

I wasted so much time and energy on this cat-and-mouse game that it really eroded the enjoyment I received from using this products. It was tiring. I drove to and from stores, swapped devides, called in for RMAs, scanned this forum to check on other possible defects I'd not yet seen or considered, etc.

Maybe I'm an extreme case but eventually I just became very disinterested in buying anything because the moment I had it in my hands I began worrying about every post I read that suggested I could have this problem or that problem.

Yes, there will be a deluge of posts about minor issues (and some major problems that deserve critisism and replacement) and polls asking you to check for problems you might have otherwise never discovered. It's up to you to decided how important those issues are for a device you will likely upgrade within a year or so.
 
klover said:
Yes, there will be a deluge of posts about minor issues (and some major problems that deserve critisism and replacement) and polls asking you to check for problems you might have otherwise never discovered. It's up to you to decided how important those issues are for a device you will likely upgrade within a year or so.
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So true.

Always helps to think of not owning an Apple device, but just renting it for a few months. If I lend you my iPad for a few months, you also wouldn't obsess about minor imperfections. You'll be so happy to be using it...

Then, you'll trade it back in and get the then new and shiny thing. It's a cycle that will last forever. We are just leasing the current generation models... What a joy not having to be stuck with one gadget forever!!
 
But Samsung HATES Apple. What if all the panels have a virus that makes the iPad 3 screen look like Android!! Oh the horror!!!!!!
 
Were there a large frequency of issues with iPhone 4 screens? That was a similar stretch of mass produced high density displays. I don't remember there being many issues (except for the yellow spots from glue that hadn't yet cured).
 
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