Video playback brightness flickers iPad3

Yeah it's definitely distracting but yeah I'm thinking you're right and it is a hardware issue. Thanks

It seems to be some form of auto contrast "feature" built into the video player. For exmple, I've noticed that when playing scenes with certain colors in the background (particularly solid green), the colors of foreground objects shift. This generally leads to a washed out look. However, as soon as I tap to bring up the controls, all the color goes back to normal. This is on a Retina iPad Mini. I kinda wish Apple would let their perfectionist media device just play the media and not try to "enhance" the experience...

I've had the same issue. When watching video on the retina iPad mini, whether in Safari or in the native Videos app or in a third party app, the screen brightness fluctuates depending on the brightness of scene it he video...it's most observable when you look at the black space / black bars above and below the video....when the video scene is a bright scene, the black bars suddenly become brighter...if it's a very dark scene, the black bars fade to a very dark black. The brightness fluctuation can be extremely annoying when scenes change in tv shows and movies, especially rapid changes in scenes.

Also, if the scene is bright and I exit the video app, as soon as it returns to the homescreen, all of the colors are completely washed out and the true color / brightness gradually returns.

I hope more people report this, as I've certainly seen enough people mentioning this issue on discussion boards all over the internet. I know I have reported it. I've also returned the retina iPad mini five or six times because of this issue as well as a different glitch regarding screen getting stuck in a particular orientation, and also getting stuck in the closing animation when an app minimizes. So far, all of these issues persist with each new retina iPad mini.

VERY disappointed.

I did work for Apple as a tech support advisor. These are issues that I never personally experienced prior to iPad 4. If I had never purchased so much content through iTunes / the App Store, I would at this point simply wash my hands with Apple mobile products and never buy another one. Unfortunately, I'm kind of locked in at this moment because of all of the Apple exclusive content I have purchased over the years.

HI!

This works on Ipad 2 for brightness when using camera or video.After you press your finger to the screen to get focus and your brightness where you want it, HOLD your finger to the screen for a beat. When you release, the screen will say AE LOCK. There! Brightness AND focus are LOCKED!!!

HOPE that helps!!!