Best Buy is offering a pretty amazing deal for the flagship 49" Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 gaming monitor. Right now it's only $1099.99 for My Best Buy Plus members. An annual My Best Buy Plus membership costs $49.99, so your total would come out to $1149.98. That's $250 less than the $1400 deal we saw during October Prime Day and $650 less than the original $1800 MSRP. Plus you get a year of My Best Buy Plus membership on top!
49" Samsung Odyssey OLED G9: The Best Ultra-Wide Gaming Monitor
The Odyssey OLED G9 replaces the Neo G9 as Samsung's latest and greatest flagship gaming monitor. The most noticeable upgrade from the Neo G9 is the quantum dot OLED panel. The previous gen Neo G9 utilizes a QD Mini-LED panel, which is already a step above the QD IPS panels you find in other high-end gaming monitors. OLEDs, however, blow away any other type of monitor in terms of HDR, black levels and color rendition. Samsung's QD OLED panel is even better because they're considerably brighter without sacrificing anything. That means they're more versatile in different lighting environments and they can display an even wider range of contrast than regular OLEDs.
Samsung's OLED G9 also offers plenty of other features you'd come to expect in a premium gaming monitor, like a blazing fast 0.3ms response time, 240Hz refresh rate, HDR True Black 400 certification (which, by the way, is a higher rating than even HDR1400), both HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort connections, and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro support (it's also NVIDIA G-Sync "compatible).
Although the OLED G9 isn't a true 4K monitor, it still has plenty of pixels packed into the 49" display. This is an ultra-wide monitor with the same resolution as two 27" monitors stacked next to each other. In fact, the horizontal pixel count (5,120 pixels) is actually greater than a traditional 4K monitor (3,840 pixels). That, combined with an 1800R curve, allows for maximum immersion during gaming.
Obviously the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 isn't a monitor for everyone. You need a rather generous gaming budget if you want to add this to your rig. The cost keeps many us gamers at bay, but certainly the barrier to entry has been significantly lowered with this early Black Friday deal today.
