Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
As for the light bleeding, I imagine they're referring to "backlight bleed," which I'm not even entirely sure I know what that is. If you Google backlight bleed you're met with a range of different images and people trying to explain what they feel it is, and then you've got others talking about how "IPS glow" is completely normal—So, who's right?

Either way, here's what I can tell you about the IPS panels I've owned over the past year...

If I eliminate every light source in my entire apartment and make it pitch black, and then put a fullscreen motionless black image on the screen... there is some glowing around the edges, but it's certainly not anything I ever notice during actual use of the display in any normal, everyday environment.
My 8-year-old Doublesight DS-263N (which was pretty awesome for ~$650 when I bought it in 2008) in a pitch-dark room:
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My Asus PB278 (you can see the edge of the DS screen next to it):
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And that's with the DS brightness at ~20% and the Asus at 0%. The Asus is an LED-backlight versus the fluorescent backlight of the DS. Off-axis viewing greatly pronounces the corner "bleed" on both. The DS wasn't that bad when it was new, and it actually had the best black levels of any of my displays; the LED backlights are a ridonculous improvement, especially in bright rooms.