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Why are people still buying iPad 2's if...

I bought two iPad 2's on launch day - 64gb wifi black, 32 gb wifi black. No bleed, no yellowing. I have absolutely no complaints about the quality of these units. The reason you hear from the ones with the problems is because those of us that have no issues don't feel the need to start threads about it.

For the record, my first gen. iPad had light bleed, but it was so scarcely noticeable that I didn't care. The new ones have none that I can see. I am extremely pleased with them. For those that I've seen that have an iPad 2 with blatant and obvious bleed/yellowing under normal conditions, drop them like a bad habit and get replacements.

For the rest...well, to each his own but you could just try enjoying your new iPad instead of running non-stop experiments on them to see if there might be a hair-thin, 1/8th inch long bleed in the bottom left hand corner with the brightness cranked in a closet with a blank black screen.
 
jw nyc said:
For anyone that says they DON'T have a light leak issue, you can prove it by going into a pitch black room, putting your brightness up to 100% and going to an all black screen on your iPad. Then take a picture of your screen from a camera with no flash. I have yet to see an iPad 2 without the light leak issue but I hope they are out there! That being said, I still have an order placed for one b/c, as others have said, it's not that big a deal to me.
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Well, if that is how you use it, maybe you should return it for a refund, not buy another one, and then stop posting garbage.

It can be fixed with an update that limits how bright the screen can be turned up. Will that make you happy?
 
MrWillie said:
Well, if that is how you use it, maybe you should return it for a refund, not buy another one, and then stop posting garbage.

It can be fixed with an update that limits how bright the screen can be turned up. Will that make you happy?
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Yup. I have one on order, and I will tell you that one thing will NEVER do, is crank up my brightness to 100% and look at a black screen shot in my closet.

I do plan on watching some nextflix in bed however, so if it shows up in normal use, entirely dif story.
 
I have very minimal light bleeding hardly ever notice it unless Im in a pitch black room and watching a movie with brightness on high. Doesn't bother me at all. So happy I spent the 8 hours in line on launch day!
 
There is no light bleeding issue when used normally

Some of the knucklehads on this forum who assure us that the iPad2 DOES have a light bleeding problem are anal. Period. Mine (32g White) DOES NOT have a light bleeding problem. So stop spreading rumors that they all do. I'm not even sure any do.
Based on the description I've read multiple times that it has to be used at 100% brightness in a dark room viewing a black screen, then they are basically confirming that every freakin display screen invented is defective. CRT's, plazma's, LCD's, LED's...none are designed to operate at full brightness without some distortion of contrast.
So, to all the non-sphincter-focused folks reading this forum, its not an issue. You know why?.....Only morons sit around viewing black screens in dark rooms on their TV's or iPads.
Lets move on to a more productive topic, shall we? :eek:
 
The screen on my iPad 1 was perfect, so any bleeding on my new iPad 2 seems unacceptable. Went to the Apple store yesterday and showed it to a genius. They are now ordering me a replacement. Of course, th gamble here is that it's not worse than then one I have.
 
Coldsmoke said:
Some of the knucklehads on this forum who assure us that the iPad2 DOES have a light bleeding problem are anal. Period. Mine (32g White) DOES NOT have a light bleeding problem. So stop spreading rumors that they all do. I'm not even sure any do.
Based on the description I've read multiple times that it has to be used at 100% brightness in a dark room viewing a black screen, then they are basically confirming that every freakin display screen invented is defective. CRT's, plazma's, LCD's, LED's...none are designed to operate at full brightness without some distortion of contrast.
So, to all the non-sphincter-focused folks reading this forum, its not an issue. You know why?.....Only morons sit around viewing black screens in dark rooms on their TV's or iPads.
Lets move on to a more productive topic, shall we? :eek:
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You, my friend, are ignorant for thinking none of the iPad 2's have light bleeding.
 
MultiMediaWill said:
Why are people still buying iPad 2's if every one of them has light bleeding issues? I really wanted to get an iPad 2 but I have seen the pics and realized almost every iPad 2 has light bleeding issues.

Is this a non-issue for people still trying to get an iPad 2?
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Because i live in the real world, a place where I"m pretty sure of the hundreds of thousands of iPad's sold it's not "every single one". Just because every tech blog picks up on the same story and repeats it 1,000 times doesn't mean there are 1000 ipads with issues.

As with the yellow iMac screens, iPhone 4 antenna issues etc... all blown out of proportion because every site you goto picks up the same pic and blogs about it.

While it is a real issue, it's not a every iPad sold issue.

Reality of a situation vs Blogger's take of a situation.

Millions of happy iPhone 4, iPad 2 owners, myself included. ZERO defects on either product. Imagine that...:eek:
 
MultiMediaWill said:
You, my friend, are ignorant for thinking none of the iPad 2's have light bleeding.
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No, the point is that normal people use their iPad instead of running experiments in a dark room with a black screen and the brightness turned to the Max.
 
bossxii said:
While it is a real issue, it's not a every iPad sold issue.

Reality of a situation vs Blogger's take of a situation.

Millions of happy iPhone 4, iPad 2 owners, myself included. ZERO defects on either product. Imagine that...:eek:
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Yep, and those lines at the Apple store aren't full of people waiting to return their iPad 2. It's yet another thing blown way out of proportion.
 
jw nyc said:
For anyone that says they DON'T have a light leak issue, you can prove it by going into a pitch black room, putting your brightness up to 100% and going to an all black screen on your iPad. Then take a picture of your screen from a camera with no flash. I have yet to see an iPad 2 without the light leak issue but I hope they are out there! That being said, I still have an order placed for one b/c, as others have said, it's not that big a deal to me.
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So, this is what I have to do to see if I have a light leak issue? Well, I wouldn't do such a strange maneuver with my iPad, so I guess I don't have a light leak issue, right?
 
Ty.

GTmauf said:
I think it's because for the majority of the units it's almost unnoticeable. I just picked up my ipad 2 today and I'll admit there is a tiny bit of leaking, but only when I put the brightness to full blast and put it in a very very dark room (no light). So despite it 'being there', I can't even see it unless I purposefully go out of my way to make it show.
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Thanks for clarifying what a dark room is. I was getting confused.
 
MultiMediaWill said:
Why are people still buying iPad 2's if every one of them has light bleeding issues? I really wanted to get an iPad 2 but I have seen the pics and realized almost every iPad 2 has light bleeding issues.

Is this a non-issue for people still trying to get an iPad 2?
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If you are basing the idea that "most people have backlight bleed" solely on posts in Macrumors then you are missing out on the opinions of NEARLY ALL iPad 2 owners.
Despite what people on here may have you believe the VAST majority of Apples customers are non obsessive Normal People who are not and never will be members of this forum.

If there was a major issue with the quality of such a high profile device it would be spread all over the mainstream media, and yet outside of this place and the odd tech forum I have yet to hear of this being a major issue.

I realise that some people are having issues but I guarantee this is not the norm for this product.

FYI: If you take ANYTHING with an LCD panel on it into a dark room and display a black screen on it you will see some degree of backlight bleed it is unavoidable using current technology.
 
ActiveApp said:
I have a 32gb black wifi with some slight bleeding. Didn't even notice until I read the thread about it. And I still don't really notice it while I am using it.
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That's what most people want. At least those of us who give a damn about quality.

For this who don't care that their iPads look like a crap because of this issue and just ignore it I say more power to ya. :)
 
ActiveApp said:
I have a 32gb black wifi with some slight bleeding. Didn't even notice until I read the thread about it. And I still don't really notice it while I am using it.
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Mine is exactly the same. Their is basically what I would describe as an inconsistent aura around my screen in those conditions. However as I never go above 50% brightness I never have the problem during usage, so I don't feel the need to complain or TTY and swap it out.
 
I'm not especially fussy and my bleed generally isn't noticeable- However, when I'm in a reasonably dark environment watching a film it's very obvious, even somewhat below 50% brightness. It's the positioning as much as anything, right in the top left hand corner (I hold my iPad with the buttons facing down so that the headphone jack doesn't get in the way) so that in darker scenes it looks kind of like there's a couple of yellowy spotlights shining down on the screen. It's also there on two other corners, but not nearly to the same degree. I wouldn't change it if the top left bleed were on the same level.

I'll change it when stock is more readily available - that's not me being overly fussy, simply that the positioning and boldness of the main bleed is off-putting at certain times.
 
jw nyc said:
For anyone that says they DON'T have a light leak issue, you can prove it by going into a pitch black room, putting your brightness up to 100% and going to an all black screen on your iPad. Then take a picture of your screen from a camera with no flash. I have yet to see an iPad 2 without the light leak issue but I hope they are out there! That being said, I still have an order placed for one b/c, as others have said, it's not that big a deal to me.
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I was going to respond, but the comment below pretty much covered everything.

porcupine8 said:
Man, given that I'm planning on primarily using my iPad at 100% brightness in an all-black room with the screen completely black, now I understand why this is such a huge issue.

I was also planning on using it underwater - don't tell me it has problems then, too!
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Bravo!
 
jw nyc said:
For anyone that says they DON'T have a light leak issue, you can prove it by going into a pitch black room, putting your brightness up to 100% and going to an all black screen on your iPad. Then take a picture of your screen from a camera with no flash. I have yet to see an iPad 2 without the light leak issue but I hope they are out there! That being said, I still have an order placed for one b/c, as others have said, it's not that big a deal to me.
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I am much dumber after reading the above. Dude, seriously?
 
Its funny because of all the people claiming that theirs has no bleed at all, i have yet to see ANY pictures proving that this is true. I have yet to see a "perfect" one :rolleyes:
 
VidPro said:
That's what most people want. At least those of us who give a damn about quality.

For this who don't care that their iPads look like a crap because of this issue and just ignore it I say more power to ya. :)
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You're the spokesperson for the OCD Apple Zealot Perfectionists of America, aren't you? Come on, admit it! :p
 
MultiMediaWill said:
Why are people still buying iPad 2's if every one of them has light bleeding issues? I really wanted to get an iPad 2 but I have seen the pics and realized almost every iPad 2 has light bleeding issues.

Is this a non-issue for people still trying to get an iPad 2?
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