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points by jorvi 1 day ago | 0 comments

The best thing about OLED is not having disgusting amounts of blooming[0] and purple-pink edge fraying.

It's so bad that the first time I used my M series I thought I needed to RMA it because the display must be broken it it looks this bad, right? Nope.

[0]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m0zq6aEnGWs/sddefault.jpg

[–] saturn8601 1 day ago

Thats a side effect of the 1000+ dimming zones no? I snagged this ASUS ProArt display that was Professional Grade on eBay and among its many flaws is that its 1000+ dimming zones result in blooming whenever you have bright items on top of a complete black background. Makes it terrible for horror movies. :/

[–] jorvi 1 day ago

Yes. What I've never understood is why Apple, when they looked at it in prototype, didn't just adapt a color profile that latched black a few values higher (basically the opposite of crushing blacks). It would have meant the display would have had slightly worse blacks, but at least they would have been uniform. If Jobs had seen this display he would have thrown the device, and perhaps the designer, straight out of a window.

[–] kalleboo 1 day ago

You're exaggerating wildly. The display looks amazing compared to 90% of the computer displays people use.

And Steve Jobs sold the plastic MacBooks with their terrible glossy TN display.

[–] jorvi 19 hours ago

No, they look horrific with any deep blacks? Not sure how that qualifies as "amazing".

They are amazing in terms of peak brightness. Blasting out at 1200-1600 nits makes working in direct sunlight a breeze.

[–] littlecranky67 1 day ago

I had the same experience but to be fair, you only notice this in complete dark rooms. Which is a fringe scenario.

[–] ahartmetz 1 day ago

You know what you also only notice in very dark rooms? Super high contrast ratios. So the feature fails in the one situation in which it could make a positive contribution.

[–] jorvi 1 day ago

It is visible even in daylight.

[–] mmcnl 1 day ago

In practice you will hardly ever notice this. Especially not during normal use. Maybe only during videos.