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MSI's upcoming MPG 321URX QD-OLED gaming monitor will launch later this month, with a retail price of just $949... down from its initial announcement and pricing of $1199.

The company was planning a limited-time introductory price of $949 for its 32-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor, with its MSRP of $1199, but now it'll be dropping for $949... for everyone. MSI and ASUS both have 32-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED gaming monitors on the cusp of release, but MSI is going to win big with its $949 pricing.

The news is coming from Monitors Unboxed, who said: "I've gotten a second update from MSI regarding the MSRP of their QD-OLEDs. They have decided to change their mind and offer the previously lowered pricing permanently, instead of just as an introductory price".

ASUS originally announced the ROG Swift PG32UCDM back in August 2023 with a second-gen Samsung QD-OLED panel, but has updated it with a third-gen QD-OLED panel and now it's available for $1299. Check it out:

The new ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM gaming monitor features a 32-inch QD-OLED panel, offering its beautiful blacks and insane-fast response time of 0.03ms (GTG). The 32-inch QD-OLED panel features a native 4K resolution (3840 x 2160) with a blistering-fast 240Hz refresh rate. It oozes class, style, and performance and needs to be matched with a high-end GPU to feed 4K at 240FPS.

ASUS has designed its new gaming monitor for blur-free action, even during the most intense gaming sessions -- 240FPS is glorious, as too is 4K, and on a QD-OLED panel -- it's the trifecta of awesome sauce -- with AMD FreeSync Premium Pro technology and NVIDIA G-SYNC compatibility thrown into the mix.

Samsung is reportedly gearing up to open up production lines for its 8th-generation OLED panels, with the South Korean electronics giant acquiring the required equipment to get the lineup and operational.

A new report suggests that Samsung isn't making the new OLED panels exclusively for Apple and its next-gen MacBook Pro laptops, but rather, it is trying to get contracts with other laptop makers, including Dell and HP. Samsung will accept delivery of new evaporator equipment from Canon Toki in Japan next month, with the new OLED production facility expected to be operational in the second half of 2025.

Samsung could provide its new OLED panels to new customers like Dell and HP, and not Apple, for its new MacBook Pro laptops, which will provide Dell and HP with high-quality OLED panels that you'd expect on an expensive new MacBook Pro from Apple. Apple isn't expected to change over to OLED panels for its next-gen MacBook Pro laptops for at least the next few years, so Samsung needs customers for its new OLED panels in 2025.

Xiaomi has just introduced its latest Redmi G Pro gaming monitor, with the latest member of its monitor family featuring a 27-inch Mini-LED panel, 1440p resolution, 180Hz refresh, and even the latest DisplayPort 2.1 connectivity.

The new Xiaomi Redmi G Pro gaming monitor features a 27-inch Mini-LED panel with a native 2560 x 1440 resolution, 1152 partitions, and 4608 lamp beats, which means you're going to get some beautiful image quality out of Xiaomi's latest monitor. You've got four different light control modes, allowing users to tweak panel settings without going through every single option in the UI.

Xiaomi promises up to 1000 nits of brightness with HDR1000 support; you've got some great IQ on the Redmi G Pro gaming monitor. Xiaomi's new Redmi G Pro gaming monitor also has 100% sRGB, 99% DCI-P3, and 97% Adobe RGB color gamut ratings, so the company is really pushing this new monitor for quality and not just gaming.

According to a new market analysis and report from TrendForce, the global monitor and display market is on track to recover in 2024, with shipments projected to increase by around 2%. That's not exactly a high number, but it's welcome news after the hardware boom of 2020 and 2021, which saw shipments for brands like Dell, HP, and Lenovo decrease by 20%.

Interestingly, even though global shipments were down, the gaming display sector has grown thanks to demand from China's gaming market. Companies like AOC and Philips recorded an increase in shipments in 2023. The report also notes that after Acer upgraded a number of its displays from 60 and 75 Hz to 100 Hz - the result was a 6.7% boost in shipments.

It seems that PC gaming monitors are in a great place, with companies like MSI and ASUS targeting ambitious growth of around 10% in 2024. That said, the report does indicate that Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and BenQ have more conservative shipping goals - instead focusing on profitability and high-end products.

Burn-in with OLED screens remains something of a controversial issue, especially with PC monitors, and we've just had some interesting news in terms of warranty coverage for this potential problem.

Two monitor makers have revealed their extended warranty coverage for burn-in - a permanent blemish on the display, as opposed to temporary image retention, which happens all the time - and one firm has gone longer than the other.

As VideoCardz spotted, TFT Central flagged up on X (formerly Twitter) that ASUS has updated the warranty for its OLED monitors to include two years' worth of coverage for burn-in (in the product specs, though the main warranty page for ASUS hasn't yet been changed).

ASUS's ROG Strix XG27ACS is now here, and the new 27-inch panel features a Fast IPS display, a QHD resolution, and a buttery smooth 180Hz refresh rate.

ASUS's latest gaming monitor offering has popped up on its website, and judging by its specifications, it's aimed directly at competitive eSports gamers looking to get an in-game edge against their competition. The ROG Strix XG27ACS is a 27-inch gaming monitor that features a Fast IPS panel, 180Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, NVIDIA G-Sync / AMD FreeSync compatibility, a peak brightness of 400 nits, and VESA DisplayHDR 400.

Furthermore, the ROG Strix XG27ACS has an 8-bit panel that covers 133% of the sRGB and 97% of the DCI-P3 color space. Additionally, ASUS has equipped the ROG Strix XG27ACS with a 1/4" Tripod socket, a fully ergonomic stand, 120mm of height adjustment, two HDMI 2.0 ports, a DisplayPort 1.4 input with HBR3, and one USB Type-C port capable of delivering 7.5W of power.

CES 2024 was littered with new OLED gaming monitors, arguably too many to remember, and one from LG has hit the market in the United States - the 27GS95QE

Now officially launched in the US for $900, the UltraGear 27GS95QE is a 27-inch OLED panel that sports a maximum refresh rate of 240Hz, a 2560 x 1440p resolution, 0.03ms response time, a typical brightness of 275 nits, HDR10 + VESA DisplayHDR 400 True Black certification. Additionally, LG's most recently launched gaming monitor comes with NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, and a color space coverage of 98.5% of DCi-P3.

Furthermore, for those worrying about OLED burn-in, which shouldn't be a worry unless you are playing one game 24/7, there is a 2-year warranty that covers all internal and functional parts of the monitor, including the OLED Display Panel. As for connectivity, LG has outfitted the 27GS95QE with a 3.5mm headphone jack, 4-pole headphone jack that supports DTS Headphone:X, enabling 3D audio. The gaming monitor has two HDMI 2.1 ports, DisplayPort 1.4, two USB 3.2 Type-A downstream ports, and one USB 3.2 Type_B upstream port.

AI-powered lifelike avatars are coming to universities, or at least one university in England, which will be trailing the new technology from the LA-based company Proto.

Loughborough University will be the first in Europe to install these new holographic projectors, which are planned to be used for educational purposes such as teaching fashion students how to create an immersive show through sports scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Additionally, David Nussbaum, who founded Proto four years ago and has been working on hologram technology of dead celebrities, said that the company may soon be able to bring back from the dead some of the world's greatest minds to teach classes. The technology is scheduled to be implemented into the curriculum in 2025 after a year of experimentation.

CES 2024 was definitely the year of the QD-OLED gaming monitors, with multiple companies making announcements for a range of different displays at various refresh rates and response times.

One of the biggest players in the space, MSI, announced a new fleet of QD-OLED gaming monitors, and one of the features attached to one of these monitors deserves the spotlight. MSI's MEG 321URX QD-OLED was demoed on the CES showroom floor, and it features a built-in AI processor designed to scan the game that is currently being played on the monitor and provide visual notifications such as enemy position and character health.

The new monitor has raised some important questions about how AI will be used in the future of gaming, as the MEG 321URX QD-OLED's feature, which MSI calls SkySight, pops up these visual indicates completely independent of your operating system, or game files - meaning it circumvents any potential anti-cheat software.