Black Friday itself may be beginning to fade into the distance to be replaced by the wonders of Cyber Monday, but we're still finding plenty of deals that look like they're going to stick around a little while longer. This year we've seen plenty of great Black Friday OLED monitor and TV deals, and for those of you that weren't quite sure whether to pull the trigger on the big day the good news is they seem to be hanging on for a bit longer than they might have done in previous years.
When it comes to picture quality, anyone who's seen an OLED panel in the flesh will agree that they deliver a visual experience that's just better than every other display technology on the market, with the possible exception of Micro-LED. That tech's still pretty nascent though, so it'll be a while before we see deals appear on those, or really any reasonably priced products to begin with.
A good OLED panel, whether it's in a gaming monitor or the TV in your front room, will deliver lusciously rich, vibrant colors and deep, inky blacks, meaning that your favorite content will suddenly look better than you've ever seen it before. That's thanks to those organic light emitting diodes that not only display brilliantly sumptuous visuals, but can be turned off entirely to give you those properly dark blacks.
It's clever tech, but any search for OLEDs will inevitably bring up the dreaded term «burn-in». Essentially, OLED screens may be subject to ghostly imprints leftover from things like channel logos being left on the display for long periods of time. Thankfully almost all OLED TVs and monitors have protections built into place to slow this process down or mitigate it entirely, but it's worth looking at burn-in protection warranties or similar
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