White subtitles scrolling down a black screen, any time there’s near black in any movie or tv show etc. Fyi this is on an M2 iPad Pro 12.9.
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iPad Pro iPad Pro Blooming discussion [merged]
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Yes I'm pretty sure we've all seen this. Prior I was seeing a white box around white text on a black background and around the white 'grab' bar that appears at the bottom of most apps. Now the blooming isn't as pronounced, no longer appearing as a box but a glow, more aligned with what I see on my MBP XDR screen. I had become indifferent to iPad blooming but now I'm definitely noticing the difference and improvement.
So, I haven’t been checking with each release, but one thing I only just now noticed is that the Book app seems to default to a “not totally black” background (I don’t read a lot of text only books, so don’t think I would have changed it from the default). It appears part of it may be that they may be making different aesthetic choices.
One thing I did remember changing for the better a few releases ago is that the cursor would leave a wide path behind it and only redraw it after stopping the movement. Now, I “think” the path is narrower and it follows the cursor more tightly, not leaving a trail of “on” led groups behind it. If I’m right, it’s gotten “better” in the ways I expected it would, i.e. they’ve progressively figured out smarter more efficient algorithms to control the miniled’s.
Using Stage Manager, I was able to get a miniled-off rectangle and move it in front of a partially lit background and you can see the rows of miniled groups snapping on and off quickly, but, again, that’s not a way I’d ever use my iPad.
I definitely see it on our mini-LED 12.9 Pro and it's really pronounced when side-by-side with our M4 13" OLED Pro. Of course, much depends on ambient lighting and what you're displaying.
The blooming from the local dimming zones of 12.9" pre tandem OLED iPads was TERRIBLE.
I bought 2 over the years and returned them both within the 14 day period cause I could not stand the screen despite wanting the iPad for sidecar/travel monitor (was hoping for OLED and ended up finding a 15.6" 4k OLED travel monitor that was WAY better than the iPad screens on those generations).
Watching those iPads at night was impossible. I wanted to stab my eyes out. The Local dimming and the blooming/boxes around light areas vs dark was sooo distracting... I thought I had glaucoma.
I'm glad I held out for the M4 iPad Pro as the Tandem OLED screen is AMAZING and second to none.
I bought 2 over the years and returned them both within the 14 day period cause I could not stand the screen despite wanting the iPad for sidecar/travel monitor (was hoping for OLED and ended up finding a 15.6" 4k OLED travel monitor that was WAY better than the iPad screens on those generations).
Watching those iPads at night was impossible. I wanted to stab my eyes out. The Local dimming and the blooming/boxes around light areas vs dark was sooo distracting... I thought I had glaucoma.
I'm glad I held out for the M4 iPad Pro as the Tandem OLED screen is AMAZING and second to none.
Aren't you guy that is obsessed with PWM and posts videos to "show people how that looks" with adjusted frame rates and then tells them their brain and nervous system aren't "fast enough" to see PWM on OLED mobile screens?
Now you show a picture with WAY too bright of a background/foreground with a complete backlight screen compared to a local dimming screen in the same photo? LMFAO
Your mental gymnastics along with completely ignoring any reality contrary to your limited viewpoints is now exposed to me with this photo... REAL blooming for the 2021+ 12.9" iPad Pros is even more obvious in normal low-light conditions than any PWM on apple devices. (and I say that being bugged by any modern OLED tv motion including my LG G4)...
Blooming is most noticeable in scenes with sharp contrast, like white text on a black screen or stars in a night sky. Not white on a grey background.
When a bright object (like white text) appears on a dark background, the local dimming zone lights up to display it. However, because the zones are not pixel-level precise (unlike OLED), some light may “bleed” into adjacent zones—creating a bloom or halo around the bright object.
I do not need to repost images to sustain/fuel this discussion so simply look at page 1 for an example.