Anyone have a Surface without backlight bleed?

[Megalith]

When is this crap going to end? Every time I buy a device with an IPS screen, I get some kind of ridiculous backlight bleeding.

My Surface Pro 2 has obvious bleed at the lower edges. It is definitely going back.

Anyone lucky enough to get one with absolutely zero backlight bleed? (No, I don't want to hear from anyone who has no idea what it is or how to check for it and telling me their unit is perfect.)

 

[oion]

Mine appears flawless (LCD test app). Surface 2.

 

[Sher the Love]

I don't have any noticeable light bleed. I did notice terrible light bleed on the bottom of the display model.

 

[BillJ]

There is a little light bleed on any IPS screen. My SP2 has a little on startup. It is not visible at all during regular use. No big deal.

 

[mitchellvii]

Mine is ever so slight but I have to be on a black screen in the dark to notice it.

You probably just have bad luck when it comes to this one thing.

 

[David Puddy]

I have some on startup as well, like flashlighting on the top and a bit at the bottom. But after that it's perfect, even on dark backgrounds I don't notice any bleed or flashlighting. When I first turned on my sp2 I thought maybe I got a problem but this only occurs on start up, don't know why. So far pretty happy with it.

 

[Elusive]

I have some bleed in the top left corner, which is really only visible on all-black in the dark, however I know it's there. I did a test, just to check it out in a windowless room, in the complete darkness, and once my eyes adjusted, I could individually count 8 specific points of light around the parameter of the screen (clearly the edge lighting itself), however those are a non-issue. The one in the top left I can definitely see easily though.

A good tool to test pixels, yellowing and bleed can be found here: Apple iMac (Fall 2009) Issues: How to Check Your iMac

Just click the 'Test screen'. It'll run in metro IE, or any other browser.

I'm debating to pick up a second Surface Pro 2, 128 GB version, to see if it's any better or worse, but I have the 256 GB / 8 GB model, which is sold out everywhere here now (I picked mine up as soon as the doors opened at Best Buy). If the screen ends up being perfect, I basically take a hit on specs (however, save $350.00 as a result, I guess).

 

[Ruffles]

I've had 3 SP1's and 1 SP2. All have had a bit of bleed. The worst was my launch day tablet. The rest have all been perfectly acceptable.

 

[Elusive]

I will add, for the sake of historic reference, I had three Surface RT devices in the past as well, and each of them had bleed, some worse than others (the last of three had severe digitizer problems). I have yet to see a post online of a perfect Surface Pro/Surface Pro 2, however typically people with normal screens don't post about their screens being normal, so we're the vocal minority in this case.

 

[The White Falcon]

I didn't notice any problems with my S2 after running the above test. The screen is absolutely amazing as far as picture quality. I was comparing it to a professor's RT yesterday and the difference was readily apparent even on the Metro menu.

 

[Elusive]

I didn't notice any problems with my S2 after running the above test. The screen is absolutely amazing as far as picture quality. I was comparing it to a professor's RT yesterday and the difference was readily apparent even on the Metro menu.

Yeah, I almost can't see it at all in the day time. The only time I can see the hot spots is at night, watching Netflix, or anything with a black background. (or dark grey). I really have to be a dark environment when I run the test at 100% brightness to check. Just out of curiosity, did you run this in the dark at 100% brightness? I know it's not a common use case, but, it assists in this particular test.

 

[polbit]

Mine has VERY minor bleed on left side, but its the best IPS screen I've owned as far as quality so far.