Viewing distance on your tv is probably 10 feet or more, the iPad is right in front of your face.
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OLED iPad Pro Users Report 'Grainy' Displays, But It May Not Be a Defect
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And this is why I'm waiting until Christmas to get my new iPad Pro, along with my new iPhone 16....upgrade year!
Although I'm not impressed with my M3 MB Air so far. I went for the 24GB option with 512GB memory and all I can say is HOT! The CPU temp hits over 105C consistently, so I will be keeping an eye out for the same with the new iPad Pro.
My M1 MBP would get hot, but at least it had fans. With the Air being fanless, it's concerning.
Although I'm not impressed with my M3 MB Air so far. I went for the 24GB option with 512GB memory and all I can say is HOT! The CPU temp hits over 105C consistently, so I will be keeping an eye out for the same with the new iPad Pro.
My M1 MBP would get hot, but at least it had fans. With the Air being fanless, it's concerning.
the answer is how does it look to YOU? If you see it, and it bothers you, return it. If not, then you can relax
OLED's have some isues, as all display tech does, but that is not why they "dropped" it. Still available. Sony's flagship OLED always has a two year cycle. Likley will be a new model next year.
This is the likely the same issue that the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has, and there's no software fix for it.
My S24 Ultra was objectively grainy and noticeable compared to my S22 Ultra. I couldn't justify the cost of a new phone with noticeablely worse grain than a 2-year-old phone.
Also no dedicated white pixel. Which causes subtle posterizing for OLED displays under certain situations.
LCD isn't superior to anything. Not even to CRT. It's the worst display tech we have, and we even killed the superior plasma in favor of it. You're nuts.
I’m looking at greys on my LCD mini-LED M1 iPad and they don’t exhibit this graining issue.
So LCD is certainly better at “not producing grainy greys”
I'm just saying LCD technology is inferior, not that Apple's latest product is perfect.
LCD has been beaten into submission over the years and made to look really good despite the fact that it's a fundamentally flawed technology due to it's non-emissive nature. A bit like how the industry keeps pushing a bad architecture like x86 when it should have been abandoned long ago.
Better is subjective. Just because technically it's better, doesn't mean it suits a particular application (use, not actual application) better.
It's not "better" in any objective sense. Different tools for different customers doing different jobs.
Sony managed to improve the mini LED backlighting, and the viewing angles just enough, to become a flagship that excels at HDR, because OLED still cannot surpass the HDR highlights of mini LED—for the purpose of viewing movies in HDR in very bright rooms.
But if you're in light controlled rooms, Sony's Bravia 8 is OLED and may be a better choice for picture (color) and viewing angles.
Also, Sony's Bravia 9 is not representative of most mini LED. Apple, nor anyone else, is doing what Sony is doing.
No display technology that relies on a backlight is a very good display technology... unless the backlight LEDs are small enough that they are 1:1 with the color pixel filters... at which point it doesn't make much sense anymore, and subtractive filters are inherently inefficient. At that scale you might as well just have the pixel emit their own light... which is what OLED, micro LED, and other emissive technologies do. Eventually we'll get there. OLED has a lot of problems and probably won't be where we settle in the end, but at least it doesn't need a backlight.
Dude...
An iPad Pro user sees unexpected grain effect. Returns it for another model of the same size and the grain effect is completely gone because the panel quality is up-to-standards. That is evidence of a panel lottery where some panels are bad.
People aren't criticizing OLED, they are criticizing bad implementation of OLED.
Thats not normal. I recommend opening Activity Monitor to see what runaway process is running your CPU hot.
I'm on an M2 Air with 24/1 running Adobe apps, Safari and Chrome simultaneously, and it's colder than an iPad.
I have an M3 Pro and a Max, and neither goes past 50C.
Fortunately when I’m gaming even in a dark room I like higher brightness anyway. But productivity and reading I do at way lower brightness
Not just OLED, an implementation of OLED which Apple have pretty much hyped up as the best thing since sliced bread.
Why are you being difficult about this? A small percentage of panels are coming out of the factory seemingly poorly implemented, causing grain on a small percentage of iPad Pros. This is a quality control issue. Exchanging for another panel seems to be resolving the issue.
If your OLED panel doesn't have the grain issue, then you won the panel lottery.