Dear folks,
I believe some folks here are getting het up over nothing. Some of what people are reporting as “defective” screens are not.
If you're seeing a truly pronounced or uneven yellow cast to the screen, then that's not right. If it doesn't go away in a reasonable period of time, go talk to Apple.
If all you're seeing is a modest difference between the iPad2 and the new iPad screen, that's normal. In fact, it's an improvement. The iPad2 screen was slightly bluish in color compared to professional graphics standards. It had a color temperature of about 7000 kelvins; standard is 6500 kelvins. That's really very good. But if you compared the iPad2 to a properly calibrated studio monitor, it would look slightly bluish and the colors would be moderately desaturated.
The new iPad is much closer in color rendition to a studio monitor. Also, the more accurate saturation further reduces the bluish cast.
As a result, if you put the old and new iPads next to each other, there is a distinct difference in the way they look… but it's not because the new one is more wrong. It's because the old one was!
Some of you may prefer the bluer rendition. You're entitled to your personal taste and I wouldn't argue with it, but you can't expect Apple to use that as a design goal.
A further confounding factor: when you view the iPad screens far off-axis, there is not only a brightness reduction that is pretty noticeable but there is also a slight color shift. The iPad2 shifted slightly further to the blue. Not enough to be a problem in use, but it's there. The new iPad shifts slightly to the yellow when tilted away from you and slightly towards the blue when tilted towards you. If you view both screens tilted away from you like in "Huskers 86"'s photograph, it will exaggerate the color difference between the screens. For most accurate color rendition with either of the iPads, you need to be looking at them head-on.
It's difficult to tell from looking at an uncalibrated photograph, but unless Huskers 86 is also seeing a marked unevenness in color when the iPad is viewed head-on, I don't think there's anything wrong with her new iPad.
pax \ Ctein
[ Please excuse any word-salad. MacSpeech in training! ]
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