The Problems with OLED, New 2026 Monitors, and Does 5K Gaming Make Sense? (feat. TFTCentral)

About this episode

The episode discusses the current issues with OLED technology, upcoming monitor advancements, and the viability of 5K gaming.

Episode 97: Simon from TFTCentral joins us after the wave of announcements at CES 2026 to chat about upcoming monitor technology, the current flaws with WOLED and QD-OLED panels, the types of screens we'd love to see, burn in, G-Sync Pulsar and more TFTCENTRAL Check out Simon's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tftcentral Check out Simon's website: https://tftcentral.co.uk/ CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 02:43 - New Ultrawides for 2026 11:19 - New RGB Stripe WOLED 20:36 - Does 5K Gaming Make Sense? 30:16 - 500Hz 1440p LCDs 36:38 - The OLED Formats We'd Like to See & Future of OLED 55:50 - Status of OLED Burn In and Other Flaws 1:14:41 - G-Sync Pulsar SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Audio: https://shows.acast.com/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqT8Vb3jweH6_tj2SarErfw SUPPORT US DIRECTLY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hardwareunboxed LINKS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hardwareunboxed.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Hardware Unboxed

Guest: Simon

Topics covered

• OLED technology
• monitor technology
• 5K gaming
• burn in
• G-Sync Pulsar

Keywords

• OLED
• monitor technology
• 5K gaming
• burn in
• G-Sync Pulsar
• CES 2026
• RGB Stripe WOLED

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Organizations: TFTCentral

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