Viewing angles are excellent and exactly what you’d expect from a quality IPS display.
Our test unit exhibited no backlight bleed, although brightness can shift alongside the edges at extreme angles.
Of course, this is the case with virtually any LCD-based display.
Slightly higher PPI values are typical with high-end IPS monitors, given their oft-higher resolutions.
For me, during daily usage, this is the monitor’s most inferior aspect.
Boxes, of course, are significantly cheaper though.
There’s something positive to be said about gaming on an ultra-wide monitor.
The difference from a 1920 x 1080, on the other hand, is about 25 percent.
However, adjusting the response time to “High” revealed a very different result.
“High” produced a significant amount of ghosting and noticeable amounts of visual artifacting.
Examples of this became painfully obvious during frenetic film scenes like those of The Hobbit.
Unsurprisingly, fast-paced gaming sessions also suffered.
Technical solutions to minimize ghosting do exist, like dynamic voltage adjustment.
There are also psychovisual approaches too, like blurring and screen blanking.
For gamers, another important consideration is input lag.
I enabled “Thru-mode” (a.k.a.
game mode) on the E2771 a mode which effectively eliminates input lag.
Surprisingly, the TN panel only fared only 1-2 milliseconds better than the IPS-based 29EA93.
Kudos goes to LG for producing an IPS panel with no appreciable input lag.
