No it will never go away. Everyone stop saying this. It's not the friggin' glue - it's the color gamut. My iPhone 4S is STILL coniderably yellow for 6 months.
Tony
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Not blown away by retina display
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No it will never go away. Everyone stop saying this. It's not the friggin' glue - it's the color gamut. My iPhone 4S is STILL coniderably yellow for 6 months.
Tony
Completely agree. As someone mentioned before, having an iPhone 4 and 4S, I wasn't floored by the screen of the new iPad. It's way, way, way better than the iPad 2's, but that's to be expected. And that's the thing, I already knew what to expect and I LOVE it. Maybe some people's expectations were a little high.
The OP seems to just take issue with the yellow hue, which should go away after a week or two. My iPad doesn't have any yellow to it, thankfully.
If it's still yellow in 14 days, I'd start considering getting a replacement. It should be fine in that time, though, OP.
Here's comparing it to my excellent dell latitude with its WLED 1920x1080 (15.6") screen.
The blurriness on the laptop screen is due to focus.
Photo is lacking any serious detail since I took it with my Nexus S instead of a proper camera.
The screen in the back is the laptop (left of the photo), while the new ipad is on the right.
Click on the image for full size.
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The blurriness on the laptop screen is due to focus.
Photo is lacking any serious detail since I took it with my Nexus S instead of a proper camera.
The screen in the back is the laptop (left of the photo), while the new ipad is on the right.
Click on the image for full size.
The truth is;
The blueish tint people seem to love is actually worse for image quality.
True calibrated displays ARE warm.
My iPhone 4S was warm and at first it was weird (my iPhone 4 was cold) but I know that warm is better. Bring up a picture of like a persons face.. the 'warm' iPad will display a much more accurate representation of the actual skin tone than the 'blue' iPhone 4s.
Either return it and hope for a cool screen (which any true videophile will tell you is blasphemous) or keep the warm screen and see what a (closely) calibrated screen SHOULD look like.
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Example;
The post ABOVE my first... the iPad looks better IMHO.
True color spectrum doesn't support a true white, theres no such thing. it should be off-white.
The blueish tint people seem to love is actually worse for image quality.
True calibrated displays ARE warm.
My iPhone 4S was warm and at first it was weird (my iPhone 4 was cold) but I know that warm is better. Bring up a picture of like a persons face.. the 'warm' iPad will display a much more accurate representation of the actual skin tone than the 'blue' iPhone 4s.
Either return it and hope for a cool screen (which any true videophile will tell you is blasphemous) or keep the warm screen and see what a (closely) calibrated screen SHOULD look like.
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Example;
The post ABOVE my first... the iPad looks better IMHO.
True color spectrum doesn't support a true white, theres no such thing. it should be off-white.
He's not blind, and to be honest that's a pretty ignorant rude statement. He's just used to cool displays so the iPad3 looks off to him. Pretty normal really.
This thing can beat high expectations... Thread starter isn't trying...
1. Take a picture with a dlsr camera.
2. Open photo and pinch to zoom.
Blown...away...
Nope it's you that is blinded by Apple-hype. I'd LOVE to put an Apple 2 and Apple 3 display in front of you at normal reading distances and hide the backs in a blind comparison test to see if you can REALLY tell the difference. I've already done this and most people got it WRONG.
Tony
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Huh? That's a camera MP resolution thing, not DISPLAY resolution.
Tony
I'm sitting here with an iPad 1 (same display as 2) and iPad 3 and it's CLEARLY evident which is the iPad 3.. the clarity is INSTANTLY noticeable..Nope it's you that is blinded by Apple-hype. I'd LOVE to put an Apple 2 and Apple 3 display in front of you at normal reading distances and hide the backs in a blind comparison test to see if you can REALLY tell the difference. I've already done this and most people got it WRONG.
Tony
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Huh? That's a camera MP resolution thing, not DISPLAY resolution.
Tony
Also, as far as Camera MP.... you realize a higher resolution allows you to see more detail on the picture right??
Go play a blue ray on a SDTV and an HDTV and try and use your theory of independent resolution source not looking better on a higher res display. Both monitors will show the same output but it will look VASTLY better on the higher res display. "rollseyes"
Huh? That's a camera MP resolution thing, not DISPLAY resolution.
Tony
Certainly you need a high quality picture, but this iPad displays it with immaculate detail. Try it side by side with an iPad 1 like I just did before replying again.
It's an apples and oranges comparison. You can't compare a picture taken on an iPad 2 with one taken on an iPad 3 and say the later looks better becuaes of the DISPLAY. Well, the main reason it looks better is because of the resolution of the CAMERA, not the display. This thread is about the DISPLAY. You would have to transfer the picture taken from the iPad 3 to the iPad 2, then compare the SAME picture. That's my point.
Tony
Come on, it's suppose to be R E S O L U T I O N A R Y ....
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I hope you're not an ISF calibrator.
If you are, I feel sorry for those who've had their TV's calibrated by you.
White is not supposed to look sandy.
White should look white.
There should be no yellow hue/tint.
Whatever. I don't really do pictures on my iPad. In everyday use (web browsing, movies, texting, apps, etc), I've been sitting all day comparing the same things on both iPad 2 and iPad 3 and I serious cannot really tell the difference from about 12 inches away. My wife cannot either nor several friends. I'm not sure what everyone is seeing here. It sometimes looks marginally better, bt not $800 better nor "I'm blown away" better. You guys ar just fanboys. It's really not that noticeable.
Tony
Why. We all know the new iPad has cutting edge technology and HW.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1342341/
So you don't really use the iPad for the screen resolution, duh, of course you'll be fine with iPad 2. Read reviews before dropping money on something next time.
Run roh!!!
Nope it's you that is blinded by Apple-hype. I'd LOVE to put an Apple 2 and Apple 3 display in front of you at normal reading distances and hide the backs in a blind comparison test to see if you can REALLY tell the difference. I've already done this and most people got it WRONG.
Tony
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Huh? That's a camera MP resolution thing, not DISPLAY resolution.
Tony
I never commented on Apple hype. Nice try, though.
Also, my new ipad is replacing my iPad 2. Good suggestion, though. So I placed them both in front of my wife and she said its "not even a close comparison."
Come on, it's suppose to be R E S O L U T I O N A R Y ....
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I hope you're not an ISF calibrator.
If you are, I feel sorry for those who've had their TV's calibrated by you.
White is not supposed to look sandy.
White should look white.
There should be no yellow hue/tint.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WHITE. YOU REALIZE THIS, RIGHT?? YOU CANT MAKE PURE WHITE WITH RBG SPECTRUM.
Displays are SUPPOSED TO BE warm.
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If you take a 12.1 MP DSL-R Picture and display it on both an iPad 2 & iPad 3 it WILL look much better on an iPad 3. That's not a debate it's a fact.
has nothing to do with either iPad's camera, unless your taking a photo that's EQUAL to or BELOW iPad 1 resolution it will ALWAYS look better on a higher resolution screen,
If you repeat it enough times, you'll start to believe it.
It's called subjective conditioning.
