Performance
Initial Impressions
Initial impressions, as I've aluded to already, were excellent. The display is consistently bright across the entire surface of the display, it has pin-sharp focus and sits tight to the four corners, as you'd expect from a high quality, DVI-I connected panel. The only downside is the inability to completely remove all subpixel bleeding, something that was possible on the Hercules and should be possible here too. It's a combined symptom of the hardware in the panel and the method that ClearType uses for subpixel antialiasing, so LG aren't entirely to blame, but you'd expect such an expensive device to do a little better.DVD Performance
DVD playback went off without a hitch. I used ASUS DVD on an FX 5900 for the Hercules, this time around I uses ATI DVD on an ASUS 9800XT/VTD. In a dark room, watching Pitch Black, I couldn't see any noticable signs of fast motion blurring or other effects attributed to pixel response. In other words, it plays DVDs just fine, should you wish to do so.Gaming Performance
I used the same broad suite of games to test the L1810B that I used with the Hercules: Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003, Colin McRae Rally 2, GTA3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Tiger Woods 2004, Solitaire, Medal Of Honour: Allied Assault and Solitaire.I'll be blunt, it wasn't as good as the Hercules from a gamers perspective, fast motion with fast colour changes in the scene would illicit some noticable ghosting, although it wasn't especially persistent, the display able to keep up as much as possible. In titles that move their scenes at a more pedestrian pace, the LG was more at home. Since it rarely lasts very long, it can appear as though it's some sort of old 3dfx T-Buffer cinematic effect and therefore was less noticable than it maybe could have been.
Not perfect, but not bad either. I'd be happy to play games on it, but I can see the discerning gamer who takes things a bit more seriously looking elsewhere.
