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Yellow Tint!
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That's definitely not right & pretty much identical to the original one I received via the Apple store. Like I said in my post, the one I received from Amazon is much whiter but unfortunately has other issues!
I'd swap yours if I was you having seen 2 side by side.
+1 your new iPad is fine. It will get better with usage. Try viewing hight resolution pics instead of whites and see how much better the saturation is on the new iPad. There are more colors than white.
I've noticed this as well, but mine occurs at the bottom just above the home button. I haven't been able to gather if that is normal.
but when you whites ARE NOT white............
Plus when you spend 500+ dollars on something you would like to have it
look & perform as it should and not to "wait a few weeks" or "give it time".
You also need to understand that color accuracy has nothing to do why people are complaining about the yellow tint, its because the yellow tint is ruining the white tones.. White tones should have been balanced properly while other colors can be "warmer" for "more accuracy".
There is no established norm here because the Ipad3 either gets a very warm color temp or a very cool one, it would really save the customer a lot of time and frustration if everything was calibrated properly or at least a color temperature selection at OS level.
Personally I dont care if warm is more accurate, I want my white tones white and not yellow.
The last line says it all. And people who keep saying it'll 'burn in' or that the yellow tinge is the correct colour tone, you're talking outta your collective asses & have evidently not compared 2 iPads side by side.
Dude, the left one is perfect.
Look at it from any screen and compare to the white background in the MR forums. The iPad on the left looks similar to the white background, whereas the one on the right is totally out-of-the-whack blue tinted, hurts my eyes.
Amazes me incredibly why people seem to prefer the blueish tint, for me that's a clear defect as you have exactly ZERO chance to display any true whites on this kind of color temperature. I don't even want to know how photos of real people look on the iPad on the right, like zombies???
I want whites on webpages, pink flesh tones on people and not some sort of blueish tinted piece of garbage.
If I ever get a display that blue from Apple, I'm walking straight back in to swap it.
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Your whites are white, you just have no idea what they are supposed to look like because your eyes have adjusted to the cheap, poor displays you have been using all your life.
Have you ever seen a properly professional quality calibrated display in a photographer's studio or one of those $5,000-plasma TVs set to Cinema-Mode? If yes, you should know better instead of posting something like you did.
Yesterday I got my new iPad from a reseller shop, when back home quickly compare the screen with my iPad 2.
I was expecting that the screen will have yellow tint, unsurprisingly does have. My girlfriend got her iPad today, mine is yellowish comparing both. Obviously I was disappointed until...3 hours ago!
I read a post from apple forum, something about the glue of the screen isn't dry yet. Then I let my iPad idle with maximum brightness and turning off the auto bright.
I went to do my things and 3 hours later my screen isn't look so yellowish before but still notice a little, the iPad of my gf looks yellowish comparing mine now.
So I guest the solution is let it idle or use for hours/days until it dry it all!
I was expecting that the screen will have yellow tint, unsurprisingly does have. My girlfriend got her iPad today, mine is yellowish comparing both. Obviously I was disappointed until...3 hours ago!
I read a post from apple forum, something about the glue of the screen isn't dry yet. Then I let my iPad idle with maximum brightness and turning off the auto bright.
I went to do my things and 3 hours later my screen isn't look so yellowish before but still notice a little, the iPad of my gf looks yellowish comparing mine now.
So I guest the solution is let it idle or use for hours/days until it dry it all!
New iPad 64gb AT&T on the left; new iPad 32 gb AT&T on the right. Both at max brightness with auto brightness off. The one on the left looks more blue/white to me, and more appealing to my eye.
Yesterday I got my new iPad from a reseller shop, when back home quickly compare the screen with my iPad 2.
I was expecting that the screen will have yellow tint, unsurprisingly does have. My girlfriend got her iPad today, mine is yellowish comparing both. Obviously I was disappointed until...3 hours ago!
I read a post from apple forum, something about the glue of the screen isn't dry yet. Then I let my iPad idle with maximum brightness and turning off the auto bright.
I went to do my things and 3 hours later my screen isn't look so yellowish before but still notice a little, the iPad of my gf looks yellowish comparing mine now.
So I guest the solution is let it idle or use for hours/days until it dry it all!
Oh stop with the glue ******** already! Seriously people, when do you think these iPad were manufactured, last night!? What kind of glue takes more than an hour tops to totally harden???
And also, please don't insult people's intelligence by telling them they don't know what white is supposed to look like! Mate I know white from yellow -- also remember the pictures people are posting are only as good as a) the camera they were taken on b) the angle & lighting conditions & c) the screen YOU'RE viewing them on.
There IS a major problem with faulty yellow screens with the new iPad, end of story. Not ALL iPads are affected obviously (well, I hope not!) but people are getting these things home & realising they're not right. Stop telling us that we're wrong because we're not
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One on the left for sure is better.
My first AT&T 64 GB looked like your one on the left. It has a pinkish magenta cast to it. I swapped mine and got a much better screen. I'd say the one on the right is too blue, the one on the left is too pink.
Look at RobNor's comparison a few posts back. The one on the left in his photo is what you want. I look at this stuff every day for a living.
Interesting point: stuff that normally looks blue on my iMac kind of look purplish on my left iPad. I'll read through these posts again.
I've attached some comparison pics of my iPad 1 (left) vs my third iPad 3 (right). I only had a crap camera to use... the iPad 3's camera probably would have taken better shots
The iPad 3 clearly has a yellow tint (my camera doesn't capture it well, it's easier to notice in person). Non-grayscale colors look remarkably more vibrant on the iPad 3. I can live with the warmer tint as long as it is uniform over the whole screen. Unfortunately about 1/6 of the right portrait side of the iPad 3 is darker than the rest of it, kinda like it has a shadow over it. This makes difficult to read black on white text in that area. As I read a lot of tech docs and digital manga, this shadowy area is a problem. I will probably hold onto this one for a week. If the dark area doesn't improve, I will return it and wait a few months to try again.
The iPad 3 clearly has a yellow tint (my camera doesn't capture it well, it's easier to notice in person). Non-grayscale colors look remarkably more vibrant on the iPad 3. I can live with the warmer tint as long as it is uniform over the whole screen. Unfortunately about 1/6 of the right portrait side of the iPad 3 is darker than the rest of it, kinda like it has a shadow over it. This makes difficult to read black on white text in that area. As I read a lot of tech docs and digital manga, this shadowy area is a problem. I will probably hold onto this one for a week. If the dark area doesn't improve, I will return it and wait a few months to try again.
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You need to compare really nice pictures not just plain whites. The menu whites are not true whites. Find a nice photo with lots of color and whites and then compare. You will notice the iPad 2 will give a too blue overcast. Just let your eyes adjust also you will be happy.
You need to compare really nice pictures not just plain whites. The menu whites are not true whites. Find a nice photo with lots of color and whites and then compare. You will notice the iPad 2 will give a too blue overcast. Just let your eyes adjust also you will be happy.
I want to know what the people that are defending the yellow displays have to say about the ones that are only half yellow. That's the main reason I think the yellow ones are defective. Every older iPad I saw had a uniform blueish screen like the ones most people here want. Now with the new iPad it seems to be random which color you get and a lot of them are only yellow on part of the screen.
I'd love to see the people saying the yellow screens are normal tell me mine is after looking at it in landscape and seeing the different color keyboard keys on each side.
Also, my new iPad is a week old and after leaving it on white backgrounds at 100% brightness all night 4 times half the screen is still yellow.
I'd love to see the people saying the yellow screens are normal tell me mine is after looking at it in landscape and seeing the different color keyboard keys on each side.
Also, my new iPad is a week old and after leaving it on white backgrounds at 100% brightness all night 4 times half the screen is still yellow.
What some are calling "yellow" is simply a warmer color temperature that also is more color accurate.
The blue ones are a cooler color temperature. You might like this better but it's less accurate.
My iPad 3 display is warmer (more yellow) than my iPad 2 display. I like it better, it more accurate with more vibrant colors.
Those swapping displays multiple times are just wasting time and money. That's the new display. Dislike it if you want, but that is how it is.
The blue ones are a cooler color temperature. You might like this better but it's less accurate.
My iPad 3 display is warmer (more yellow) than my iPad 2 display. I like it better, it more accurate with more vibrant colors.
Those swapping displays multiple times are just wasting time and money. That's the new display. Dislike it if you want, but that is how it is.
That my friend is bollocks -- how can I put 2 brand new iPads side by side and have one with a definite yellow tinge & one not if that's the way the new iPad screen is supposed to be like.
Well?
What about the ones like the two that I have had that are warm yellow at the top and cooler blue at the bottom? Is that how they are supposed to be? If it wasn't for the half and half ones I would be fine with the fact that the new screens are warmer but seeing mine half yellow and all the older iPads I've seen uniform blue it makes me think that the yellow ones are not meant to be that way.
They have different color temperatures. Try the same with two brand new TVs and you will see the same.
Did you measure with a color calibrator? If not, there is no way to know which is more accurate. Your statement that the new screen shouldn't have a "yellow" tinge also is bollocks. Are you in Apple engineering? How do you know?
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I didn't say that. Partial tints doesn't sound right if you checked accurately. Viewing at an angle will cause a color shift. It's also a matter of degree. A very tiny color difference is likely normal and a limitation of the technology. A large color shift would not.
The amount of hysteria in this thread is huge.
Based on the extremely warm ambient lighting in the rest of the photo, the iPad on the left looks just about dead on. The iPad on the right is much too blue.
You can't base these things off photos casually snapped in rooms without controlled conditions. Most indoor lighting is on the warmer side. White should look yellow in photos. Put some standard 92 brightness white office paper down behind the iPads and see what color the paper turns out in the photo.
This thread is like a bunch of old ladies at the salon, demanding blue rinse for their hair because it's "not white enough". Measure with a colorimeter to see how close to white it is.
Why? Your car takes a few thousand miles to break in. That's 500+ dollars. HDTVs take some time to warm up and settle in, too. It's part of the process with any display technology.
This is why you don't calibrate your TV five minutes after you bring it home, and why you need to use an iPad for a few days before you lose your ****.
Then people need to stop calling things defective and call a spade a spade: some people prefer inaccurate colors. Some units are defective, but there's no way to tell that with amateur photos on the thread. If you are unhappy with it, swap it out. But your being unhappy does not equate to "it's defective".
And most importantly, people going insane over "is my screen too yellow?" need to take a breath and move on with their lives. If you can't tell and need someone to tell you that you should be unhappy, you're not. All you're doing is looking for a problem, and you will always find one if that's what you're out to do. End of story.
You mean you want them blue and not white, but that's fine. I support that.
I have checked by asking about 7 people if the keyboard keys look the same when the keyboard is split in landscape and every single one has said the one side keys look more yellow or brownish while the other side looks light gray.
I think there is cause for this hysteria, I have a 2010 27 inch iMac that I kept after returning two of them for half yellow screens. A year later I bought a 27 inch cinema display to sit next to the iMac. Needless to say the whole iMac is way warmer than the cinema display so now I'm trying to sell the iMac and just keep my MacBook air and cinema display.
Bottom line is whether blue is better or yellow is better the displays are not even close to the same and that's what is frustrating a lot of people that had old iPads that were cooler than the new ones not to mention the ones that are half yellow like mine.
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