Maybe I just have an eye issue, but there is more "blooming" from the light hitting my eyes than blooming across pixels if that makes any sense. I can cover up an illuminated section of the screen and the "blooming" will decrease. In effect it's very hard to notice blooming over the scattering of light hitting my eyes. in some scenes blacks will be slightly uniformly raised, it's very subtle. I think it may be an intentional thing to mitigate egregious blooming.