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iPad 3 to Have 'Truly Amazing' Screen

How 'bout lighter & thinner...

Hope it's "truly amazingly" lighter and thinner because the display on there now doesn't exactly suck. --R
 
chrmjenkins said:
I've seen multiple people suggest that plasmas have some non-zero amount of light output. Can someone provide a source for that? (Still, marketing people are going to call it infinite regardless I understand).
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It's been about forever since I researched plasma vs. LCD tech. But if I remember correctly (and it's very possible I might be wrong here), each plasma pixel has to hold a charge while the screen is on. It can get to very, very low levels, but can't switch individual pixels completely off like OLED can.

I'll start digging around to see if I can find something to back up my argument. Or maybe figure out I'm an idiot, and learn something new. :p
 
This is great and all, but what we really need is some sort of confirmation on when this bad boy will finally be released into the wild. Take my money, dammit!:apple:
 
sometimes it sucks to be a student. i wish i could say "take my money" (what money?) for once xD anyone wanna buy my half year old iPad 2? :p

gonna be jealous for sure, already love the retina displays on my iPhones
 
Renzatic said:
It damn well better have a retina display. Right now, I have $700 held back for an iPad. The only reason I haven't gone out and bought an iPad 2 is because of all the rumors surrounding the iPad 3. If it doesn't have retina, I'll be soooo maaaaad. :mad:

"What we meant by 'amazing screen' is that the colors are, like, really good. I mean look at these colors!. They're really good"!

....soooo maaaaad :mad:
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If apple wants to be revolutionary they don't need a retina display they would incorporate a 4th led into the screen and that would be yellow.

So you would have red, blue, green and yellow.

Would make the display look great.
 
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This guy... is "disappointed with the black levels" ... :p Do i really have to say what is on the tip of my tongue? :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p


HiRez said:
The iPhone 4S Retina screen is sharp, but one thing I've been disappointed with is the black levels, and this includes the current iPad screens. The black level is very high (i.e. what should be "black" is actually "gray"). This reduces color saturation and contrast and is very noticeable in darkened lighting situations (for example, try reading an iBook in the dark with the "night" theme and turning the screen brightness down). Some of this is backlight leakage around the screen edges and some may just be the nature of the LED technology they're using. Would really love to see closer to true blacks on these screens.

And, it would also be great if you could somehow color calibrate these screens, they tend to ship too blue out of the factory, as most screens do. As iPads are being used for more complex applications, the need for better color criticality is increasing. iPads are increasingly being used for content creation and display. For example, showing clients your photographs or artwork. Obviously you want your work to look as good as possible, something Apple should understand. A lot of people won't need to or want to calibrate their iPad screen, but it would be great for Apple to open a way to do it you you are someone who wants or needs that functionality. Even downloading a separate color calibration app would be fine with me, and Apple doesn't even need to create it, they just need to provide the API for it and storing those settings.
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chrmjenkins said:
If you can turn a pixel completely off, it's light level is 0. Any number divided by 0 is infinity, so the white number is actually meaningless when you have a true "off" option for your pixels. Now, if you want to talk about light bleed or relative intensity, that's different. In a way, it shows how the idea of a contrast ratio is broken for newer displays.

edit: I've seen multiple people suggest that plasmas have some non-zero amount of light output. Can someone provide a source for that? (Still, marketing people are going to call it infinite regardless I understand).
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That's odd: my math instructors always said that division by zero is undefined.
 
I'm surprised that an iPad will have such a higher resolution screen than my MacBook Pro. I wonder how long it would have taken to get this kind of DPI into the consumer market without such a mass consumed device.

I hope they put this DPI in the MacBook pro before the end of the year. That's when my next upgrade will be hopefully!
 
What it needs is to get some truly amazing connectivity options like the Samsung 700T slate.
 
chrmjenkins said:
edit: I've seen multiple people suggest that plasmas have some non-zero amount of light output. Can someone provide a source for that? (Still, marketing people are going to call it infinite regardless I understand).
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I don't need to provide a source, all I have to do is look at my plasma TV.

While it's certainly better than an LCD, it still emits light when it should be truly black.

Now, back to the discussion about the iPad 3, which will not have a plasma display...
 
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D.T. said:
backinblack875 said:
"who did not want to be identified because Apple is not fond of leaks."

haha smart guy
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Tim Cook: "Jony, check it out, I made a couple of anonymous calls and it's already on Mac Rumors"!
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That is sir Jony to Tim cook.
 
It is looking more and more certain we will see the 2048 x 1536 screen. As it has been looking likely for a while, I have structured my current game so that I can get it running on that screen very easily. Now I have to get the game finished in time for the iPad 3 release.

Looking forward to it as a developer and a consumer.
 
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komodrone said:
probably a 3d screen like 3ds
yuck.
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Haha trust me the iPad wannabe companies are going to release those and the anti apple crew will claim apple is fail because it does not use horrible technology on its tablets

Kind of like just making their phones bigger to be bigger.
 
What Apple employee with at least 1 brain cell and the privilege to use the iPad 3 before launch, would release information like this? Gotta be fake.

Even if the information is true, that doesn't prove anything. This is a generic prediction.
 
I hope to god it has a different shell than the iPad 2. I dislike not being able to discern the difference between models based on looks alone. Yeah the 3GS and 4S are alright, but those phones did not have anything revolutionary in them compared to previous versions. The high dpi display of this size certainly warrants a unique individual design that will mark this as IMO the real coming of the iPad. First Apple created the tablet market, refined it and now is truly delivering in a next gen experience.

I can't wait for the iPad 3. Bring it on! :)
 
smithrh said:
I don't need to provide a source, all I have to do is look at my plasma TV.

While it's certainly better than an LCD, it still emits light when it should be truly black.

Now, back to the discussion about the iPad 3, which will not have a plasma display...
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Actually, you do. Unless you're making the case that your 1 plasma set is representative of all plasma sets in existence.
 
waloshin said:
If apple wants to be revolutionary they don't need a retina display they would incorporate a 4th led into the screen and that would be yellow.

So you would have red, blue, green and yellow.

Would make the display look great.
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That'd be quite a bit of work for only so much gain. I imagine that'd require changes on the graphics card and OS level before it could be taken advantage of, and all for what? Yellow the likes you haven't seen since you were 6, and you first pulled the maize crayon out of your Crayola box of 100 colors.

You know, the ones with the crayon sharpener built in.

...actually that would be pretty cool.
 
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