Great deals on OLED, QLED, and ULED gaming TVs.

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Great deals on OLED, QLED, and ULED gaming TVs.

With Amazon Prime Early Access coming to an end, this might be a good time to get a cheap gaming TV and play some games while relaxing in the comfort of your living room. There were a lot of gaming monitors (opens in new tab) on Prime Day (sorry, not Prime Day, there's so much going on it's a headache) this year. However, deals on gaming TVs that are worth your time are much harder to find, especially during sale season.

That's because many brands are trying to push smart TVs over high refresh rate TVs and QLED TVs over OLED TVs; with ULED and WOLED also on the horizon, it's easy to see how the sheer number of choices can be overwhelming. Especially if you purchased the best gaming PC (opens in new tab) with Prime Early Access. Ideally, 120 Hz is the standard set for PC gaming on a 4K TV.

To that end, I've compiled all of the best gaming TV deals here so you don't have to go hunting and can get back to deciding how to monster your rig with the best graphics card deals around today (opens in new tab) and more, get the most out of your high-speed, high-resolution gaming TV.

OLEDs are panels that produce their own light by passing an electric current through a series of organic thin films composed of carbon and hydrogen placed between two conductors. This makes every pixel in an OLED display a light source, eliminating much of the complexity of competing LCD screens.

WOLEDs (white OLEDs) are somewhat more complex products. The white backlight may suppress color and blacks may not be as intense. Nevertheless, LG already uses WOLED technology in many of its TVs, and from what we have seen, it tends to excel in deep blacks and HDR. [QLED, on the other hand, is Samsung's own-brand panel technology, meaning quantum dot light-emitting diodes. It uses metal quantum dot filters to improve color and contrast. And as for gaming in HDR, it's usually pretty impressive; it may not necessarily be of interest to PC gamers, but it could come in handy for those using the latest consoles.

ULED, also called Ultra LED, is essentially a Hisense patent and not a "single technology" like OLED or QLED. Instead, it is a branding of the various features in Hisense's LED TVs under one banner. A bit misleading, perhaps, but that's why we're here.

In any case, if you are considering a 4K TV, you will need a graphics card with at least an HDMI 2.0 port (HDMI 2.0a or later for HDR10 displays). This will allow 4K at 60 Hz with 24-bit color. Modern TVs support HDMI 2.1 and can handle 4K at 120 Hz and 8K at 60 Hz.

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