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Originally Posted by hollowpoint
Will be curious to hear if anyone tried the new Ipad Pros with the M1 chip, and see what the performance is like on those....
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MacRumors has an
article about the reported issue of bad blooming on the new M1 iPad Pros. Blooming is a halo glowing effect that occurs around very bright portions of the screen when the adjacent background is very dark. I commented on this in that article's Comments area, so I'll quote my own response here:
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I'm not going to defend the new screens on the newest iPad Pros, mainly because I have not seen nor used one yet. They are way out of my price range. I had to save a long while to get up the money for my iPad Air 2020! However, I will point out a few things.
First, user photographs of other device screens are never going to look the same to us as the photographed device screen's actual screen does to the user who photographed it. There are simply too many variables including type of camera used, type of processing performed on the images, type of color format and space used, and the wide variety of screens we the viewers will use to look at them. So wait and look at an actual iPad Pro M1 before you decide one way or the other.
Second, high contrast will look bad to most of us regardless of screen type or device it is viewed on. Our eyes can adjust to the difference between bright white and dark black, but it takes time for our brains to process the information. Here is the thing, read a few lines of bright white text on a dark black background, then look away. You will most likely get the so-called "mini blinds" effect where for a while you see blurry dark lines in front of you. So don't ever expect bright white on dark black to look good, period. But if blooming does occur with darker grays and colors contrasted with brightly lit areas of the screen, then that can definitely be an issue worth noting.
Blooming is a big topic on looking for new 4K HDR TVs as so many of the new TVs still experience it to one degree or another. Clearly it is not that easy to get rid of in an affordable manner else more TV manufacturers would have done so by now, at least on their TVs costing $800 or more. Companies like Apple and others will try to use fancy tech names to convince us their screens are better than the competitions's screens, but those tech buzz words are often just BS jargon for "we tried to make it a little less terrible." It is the high tech industry's version of the home health industry's "snake oil."
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