Im sure the iPad Pro 2017 can output 1080 if not a lot more through a 4K adapter, and should be at least be able to fill the FHD screen top and bottom, shouldn’t it?
How to use iPad with an external monitor. It’s much easier and more rewarding than it sounds.
Do not forget to get a keyboard, mouse or trackpad, because it will be extremely inconvenient to use the tablet’s touch screen while displaying an image on an external monitor. However, some applications are already adapted to work with external screens and will correctly display information on them, taking into account the resolution and aspect ratio.
While working with a document, developers independently offer to select the mode of displaying an image on an external screen. This can be normal mirroring with black bars on the sides, or displaying an entire page of the document on the screen.
In this case, on the iPad, you can open the second application in the mode Split Viewwhile still seeing the document on the big screen. When connected to an external screen, a preview window of the video is displayed in the aspect ratio supported by the monitor.
When working with a monitor, you can display the entire open document on a large screen in an easy-to-view scale. ◉ Netflix – Free on the App Store (there are in-app purchases) … This streaming service also works great when connecting an external screen. At the same time, you will be able to watch movies or TV series in full screen mode without black bars and in the resolution supported by the monitor. There are a large number of brushes, filters and settings that are fully revealed when drawing with Apple Pencil. With a compatible gamepad, you’ll be able to play on a large screen, and the iPad will simply display a static game logo. ◉ Twitch – Free on the App Store (there are in-app purchases) … The popular streaming platform has long supported a connected external monitor.
The list of applications with support for an external screen does not end there, however, the implementation of this feature does not always use the full potential of the device. ■ popular applications Evernote, Trello, Slack, Omni Focus, Framer, Witeboard, Miro, Airtable, Glitch and Notion;
Browser versions of services work as on a full-fledged desktop OS and are displayed on an external screen with the appropriate aspect ratio. In addition to the ability to run one of the services in the browser, you can split the utility screen into several work areas.
This will come in handy if, for some reason, the utility incorrectly recognizes the monitor and displays an image with black stripes, or vice versa – it crawls out of the visible area. The Shiftscreen working window, although it will become small on the iPad, will continue to be displayed in full screen mode on an external monitor.
In these programs, when viewing content in full screen mode, it will be displayed on an external monitor without black bars on the sides. The downside of this solution is the need for application developers to modify their programs and games for a new aspect ratio and resolution.
The user received a kind of workspace by analogy with a computer desktop, and Android applications were launched on it in windowed mode with the usual aspect ratio.
Any such revision will bring the usability of the iPad in conjunction with an external screen to a new level and will allow replacing the computer with a tablet in a number of new tasks and processes.
Support for 16:9 aspect ratio when iPad app is connected to external display.
In addition maybe even support different orientation options in case someone wants to use their external display in portrait mode.
iPadOS 16: Apple’s iPad Is Getting Even More Mac-Like
The newly introduced iPadOS 16 features dash those allegations, however, by specifically targeting the segment of consumers who want a more desktop-like experience with the iPad Pro, but combined with the highly convenient form factor and unique usage scenarios made possible by a tablet.
‘Shiftscreen’ takes the iPad experience to the next level with multi-window navigation and more
Apple has now released iPadOS 15 to the public, which comes with enhancements to the iPad’s multitasking system. Shiftscreen is not exactly a new app, but it has been completely rewritten to take advantage of the latest technologies built into iPadOS. And if you want to plug your iPad into an external monitor to use it as a computer, the experience won’t be the best since iPadOS doesn’t support different resolutions or aspect ratios. Based on an API that lets apps take full advantage of an external monitor, the new Shiftscreen brings a multi-window experience to the iPad.
Apple iPad 2 LCD Display Shoot-Out
The Apple iPad 2 has a high performance In Plane Switching IPS LCD display with a White LED backlight. The inner details of the display technologies are very interesting, but our concern here is to evaluate the actual image and picture quality that they deliver, so we don’t really care how they do it, as long as they do it well. Note that we are testing and evaluating the display on the iPad 2 with whatever hardware, firmware, OS and software are provided by Apple. Figure 1 shows the smooth intensity scale for both a photograph and test pattern that are visibly free of all but minor artifacts on the iPad 2.
The image and picture quality on the iPad 2 are very good across the board, including text, icons, and menu graphics. In the important category of images, pictures and photographs from external sources, whether they be from digital cameras or web content, are rendered quite well, except that the LCD panel is weak in color saturation – much more on that below.
The Measurements section below has details of all of the lab measurements and tests with lots of additional background information and explanations including the display’s Maximum Brightness and Peak Luminance, Black Brightness, Contrast Ratio, Screen Reflectance, Bright Ambient Light Contrast Rating, Dynamic Color and Contrast, Color Temperature and White Chromaticity, Color Gamut, Intensity Scale and Gamma, the variation of Brightness, Contrast Ratio and Color Shift with Viewing Angle, Backlight Power Consumption, and Light Spectrum of the display. The color and gray-scale tracking are also very good, which means that the Red, Green and Blue primaries have been carefully calibrated and balanced.
The one major flaw in the factory calibration is the steep intensity scale, which produces too much image contrast. The display Look Up Tables should be changed to deliver a lower Gamma closer to the standard value of 2.2. The iPad 2 has an excellent display, but here are some suggestions on how to make it better: The major shortcoming is the reduced color gamut, due to weak Red and Blue primaries. This article is a lite version of our intensive scientific analysis of smartphone and mobile displays – before the benefits of our advanced mathematical DisplayMate Display Optimization Technology, which can correct or improve many of the deficiencies – including higher calibrated brightness, power efficiency, effective screen contrast, picture quality and color and gray scale accuracy under both bright and dim ambient light, and much more.
Because of the much lower ppi, the iPad needs better anti-aliasing OS software to further improve perceived sharpness and rendering and also improved Auto Brightness software to better manage display brightness in order to maximize battery run time. Apple still needs to keep pushing very hard in both Tablets and Smartphones in order to maintain its current impressive lead in both of these categories…
Note that we are testing and evaluating the display on the iPad 2 with whatever hardware, firmware, OS and software are provided by Apple. All measurements were made using DisplayMate Multimedia Edition for Mobile Displays to generate the analytical test patterns together with a Konica Minolta CS-200 ChromaMeter, which is a Spectroradiometer.
All devices were tested with their Backlight set for maximum brightness with the Automatic Brightness light sensor control turned off, and running on their AC power adapter with a fully charged battery, so that the battery performance and state was not a factor in the results. This is examined in detail in our BrightnessGate article Smartphone Automatic Brightness Controls and Light Sensors are Useless. The glow reduces image contrast and screen readability and can be distracting or even annoying in dark environments. The very best LCDs now have (true) Contrast Ratios of 1,500 to 2,000 so the 962 value for the iPad 2 is fairly impressive in a mobile device. Don’t confuse the true Contrast Ratio with the tremendously inflated values that are published by many manufacturers. Above we measured the iPad 2 screen reflections from light that is coming from all directions – this is called diffuse illumination. Mirror reflections can be visually annoying because they produce image content that competes with the LCD and your eye attempts to focus on them as well. On the iPhone 4 the cover glass and LCD panel are optically bonded together to reduce multiple reflections.
Apple iPad 2: 2 prominent reflections resulting from the air gap between cover glass and LCD. Apple iPhone 4: Only 1 prominent reflection resulting from directly bonding the cover glass and LCD. By measuring distances within the photographs it is possible to calculate the thickness of the different screen layers provided we know the index of refraction of each. It’s also much less expensive to replace just the broken cover glass instead of the entire assembly that includes the bonded LCD panel, as with the iPhone 4. While it’s possible for dust to get inside the air gap, that could be a problem only if the screen needs to be repaired – the factory assembled units should be fine. The goal is generally to jazz up and “enhance” the picture by stretching and exaggerating the colors and intensity scale.
Since it alters and frequently distorts the image it is better left as an option for people who aren’t concerned with picture accuracy and fidelity. Since the Dynamic modes are generally triggered by changes in Average Picture Level, a very simple test for Dynamic Contrast is to separately measure the brightness of full screen Red, Green and Blue images and then compare them to White, which should equal their sum.
The only way that a display will deliver good color and gray scale accuracy is if it is accurately calibrated to an industry standard specification, which for computers, digital cameras, and HDTVs is sRGB or Rec.709.
CIE 1976 Uniform Chromaticity Diagram showing the Color Gamut and White Point for the Apple iPad 2 The iPad 2, iPhone 4 and Galaxy S perform poorly with reference to the standard Color Gamut, which is the black triangle in Figure 3. Galaxy S photos had too much color, to the point of appearing gaudy, particularly faces, and well known objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, grass, and even a Coca-Cola can.
The iPad 2 and iPhone 4 had the reverse problem, all of the photos looked somewhat pale, flat, washed-out and under-saturated. The standard intensity scale is not linear but rather follows a mathematical power-law, so it is a straight line on a log-log graph.
In order to deliver accurate color and intensity scales a display must closely match the standard. The iPad 2 like the iPhone 4 is too steep with respect to the Standard intensity scale, which is needed in order to accurately reproduce images and pictures for most content.
The Peak Brightness, Black Luminance, Contrast Ratio and color generally change with viewing angle (see below). At a moderate 30 degree viewing angle the Peak Brightness of the iPad 2 fell by 58 percent to 171 cd/m2, which is an incredibly large decrease. At a moderate 30 degree viewing angle the Black Level Brightness decreased somewhat to 0.30 cd/m2, but the Contrast Ratio still fell considerably to 564. At a moderate 30 degree viewing angle Blue shifted the most, by Δ(u’v’) = 0.0100, which is 2.5 times the Just Noticeable Color Difference.
The spectra for White, which is the sum of the Red, Green and Blue primaries is shown in Figure 5 for both the iPad 2 and iPhone 4 as well as the Samsung Galaxy S OLED.
Dr. Raymond Soneira is President of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation of Amherst, New Hampshire, which produces video calibration, evaluation, and diagnostic products for consumers, technicians, and manufacturers. He is a research scientist with a career that spans physics, computer science, and television system design. Dr. Soneira obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University, spent 5 years as a Long-Term Member of the world famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, another 5 years as a Principal Investigator in the Computer Systems Research Laboratory at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and has also designed, tested, and installed color television broadcast equipment for the CBS Television Network Engineering and Development Department.
This article is a lite version of our intensive scientific analysis of smartphone and mobile displays – before the benefits of our advanced mathematical DisplayMate Display Optimization Technology, which can correct or improve many of the deficiencies – including higher calibrated brightness, power efficiency, effective screen contrast, picture quality and color and gray scale accuracy under both bright and dim ambient light, and much more. Our advanced scientific optimizations can make lower cost panels look as good or better than more expensive higher performance displays. For more information on our technology see the Summary description of our Adaptive Variable Metric Display Optimizer AVDO.
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