Roku Wants To Place Ads On Your TV When You Pause Your Game

Roku Wants To Place Ads On Your TV When You Pause Your Game

A new patent recently filed by TV and streaming device manufacturer Roku hints toward a possible future where televisions could display ads when you pause a movie or game. This Summer Soulslike Keeps Looking Better And Better For Roku, the time in which the TV is on but users aren’t doing anything is valuable. The … Read more

10 best gaming monitors of 2024: tested and reviewed

10 best gaming monitors of 2024: tested and reviewed

There are a ton of options if you on the hunt for the best gaming monitors, but for us, Alienware’s 34 QD-OLED still takes the cake in 2024. It’s not the display for everyone, though, and after reviewing dozens of the top gaming monitors, we’ve settled on a list of displays with great gaming performance … Read more

Anything is possible in this new era of gaming monitors

Anything is possible in this new era of gaming monitors

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Sometimes, you get everything you’ve wanted. We probably won’t see much innovation from gaming monitors over the next couple of years. We’re on the heels of CES 2024, and we saw some exciting gaming monitor announcements — the first 4K QD-OLED displays, a 480Hz OLED monitor, and even some experimentation … Read more

Asus’ 480Hz OLED gaming monitor just won CES

Asus’ 480Hz OLED gaming monitor just won CES

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Well, I didn’t see that one coming. Asus may have brought the first true 480Hz OLED gaming monitor to CES 2024. The ROG Swift PG27AQDP is a 1440p resolution OLED monitor that comes with a staggering 480Hz refresh rate — that alone tells you what you need to know about … Read more

Alienware’s new second-gen QD-OLED monitors are stunning

Alienware’s new second-gen QD-OLED monitors are stunning

Luke Larsen / Digital Trends The Alienware 34 QD-OLED took the world by storm. As the first really great OLED gaming monitor, it had little in the way of competition. But in 2024, that’s not true. And to keep its lead, Alienware has launched two new QD-OLED gaming monitors that take things even further. There … Read more

Predator monitors double down on OLED, mini-LED, and curves

Predator monitors double down on OLED, mini-LED, and curves

Acer Acer has brought four new Predator gaming monitors to CES 2024 this year, two of which are OLED and two of which are mini-LED. Excluding Samsung, Acer might now have one of the largest lineups of OLED and mini-LED gaming displays. Let’s start with the Predator Z57, the largest and most audacious of the … Read more

65-inch LG C3 OLED TV is $500 off for Black Friday

65-inch LG C3 OLED TV is $500 off for Black Friday

LG When picking a new TV, it’s not always about having a bigger screen but also a better panel and image reproduction. For example, OLED is a superior technology to standard LEDs and even to QLED, so if you’re looking to take your home theater to the next level, an OLED TV is a great … Read more

Alienware is playing coy with its two new QD-OLED monitors

Alienware is playing coy with its two new QD-OLED monitors

Digital Trends Alienware is playing coy with two new QD-OLED gaming monitors that are expected to launch soon. During a livestream for TwitchCon, the company provided a brief look at the two new displays, which will be available in January of next year. We only know some basic details. One of the displays is a … Read more

What is Display Stream Compression? A complete guide to DSC

What is Display Stream Compression? A complete guide to DSC

Display Stream Compression (DSC) is a compression algorithm that lets monitors and TVs display resolutions and refresh rates that they wouldn’t be otherwise capable of handling. It improves the capabilities of HDMI and DisplayPort cables, letting them too, serve displays that are higher resolution and refresh rate than they are natively capable of doing. DSC … Read more

Dell’s 32-inch 6K monitor (yes, 6K) is $800 off right now

Dell’s 32-inch 6K monitor (yes, 6K) is $800 off right now

Dell Already thinking about how you should upgrade to a 4K monitor? Well, now you can buy a 6K monitor with Dell offering the world’s first 6K monitor with the Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor. Even better, it’s currently $800 off so it’s one of the best monitor deals around. Usually priced at $3,200, it’s … Read more