{"podcast":{"title":"The Hardware Unboxed Podcast","slug":"the-hardware-unboxed-podcast-6574188","podcast_index_feed_id":6574188,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/64db275277fd79001173cfd5","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1692083731574-4d58d6eeb2db7814395e50608e294b95.jpeg","author":"Hardware Unboxed","episode_count":107,"summary":"Steve and Tim from the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed bring to you a weekly show discussing all the latest news and interesting topics in the PC hardware and gaming scene. With our decades of experience testing and benchmarking hardware, you'll be sure to enjoy various insights into tech and the occasional guest, especially if you love building PCs and playing PC games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T20:19:48.468444+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast-6574188"},"episode":{"title":"The Problems with OLED, New 2026 Monitors, and Does 5K Gaming Make Sense? (feat. TFTCentral)","slug":"the-problems-with-oled-new-2026-monitors-and-does-5k-gaming-make-sense-feat-tftcentral","published_at":"2026-02-13T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast-6574188/the-problems-with-oled-new-2026-monitors-and-does-5k-gaming-make-sense-feat-tftcentral","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast-6574188","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast/episodes/the-problems-with-oled-new-2026-monitors-and-does-5k-gaming","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/64db275277fd79001173cfd5/e/698e9fc7d6c27a06bb3bd022/media.mp3","summary":"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.","meta_description":"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 W…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5486,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast-6574188/episodes/the-problems-with-oled-new-2026-monitors-and-does-5k-gaming-make-sense-feat-tftcentral/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast-6574188/the-problems-with-oled-new-2026-monitors-and-does-5k-gaming-make-sense-feat-tftcentral.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}