1. The 144HZ refresh rate ensures you flawlessly smooth action scenes, even in games with high frame rates. You can also adjust the refresh rate to 60HZ/120HZ when necessary.
2. Metal Quantum Dot technology ensures longer lasting, more natural colours. It delivers purer, brighter and more lifelike colours, especially reds and green, than conventional monitors.
3. The super ultra-wide 49-inch screen has an innovative 32:9 aspect ratio, which means you always get to see game scenes in their entirety. The 1800R curved panel immerses you in gameplay and delivers 1Max-style cinematic viewing. It’s equivalent to two 27-inch 16:9 monitors side by side meaning you can multi-task on one screen, with no bezels to impede your view.
4. HDR, or Hight Dynamic Range offers a wider range or luminance levels that render dark areas deeper and light areas brighter – this means the detail in which you see game graphics is just as the developers intended.
5. The contrast ratio of 3000:1 ensures deep blacks and brilliant whites in even the darkest or brightest scenes. Additionally, the black equaliser adjusts any game scene to the brightness level you want.
6. The pre-set gaming modes are customisable, ensuring you get the gaming experience you want, and the game-style OSD dashboard menu lets you view key game settings at a glance and adjust them to your preference using shortcut keys.
7. The Easy Setting Box lets you partition your screen or display multiple screen of assorted sizes with just a click for seamless multi-tasking.
8. To add extra atmosphere to your game play, arena lighting projects a pulsating lightshow onto a wall behind your monitor.

Whether you’re a major competitor in the world of online gaming or simply enjoy watching other players perform online, the right monitor will ensure you’ll be able to fully immerse yourself in the game and play at your peak.

Since 1971 when the first commercial arcade game, Computer Space, was created, gaming has taken the world by storm. Arcade games like Space Invaders became so popular that during 1978 Japan experienced a shortage of 100-yen coins for a while. In 1980, it was Pac-Man, with the first ever animated main character, that had youth whiling away hours in Arcades. Then along came Mario (initially known as ‘jumpman’) in Donkey Kong – this was one of the first games to introduce multiple levels. Russian Alexey Patjitnov created Tetris, but he had to cede his invention to the Russian Government. Four years later, American Henk Rogers bought the game from the Russian Government and persuaded Nintendo to release it. In 1989, Sim City was released for computers and Game Boy launched with pre-loaded Tetris. Sonic the Hedgehog also made an appearance along with the release of the Sega Genesis Console.

While these games improved and competed, the 1990’s saw the release of Doom, a first-person shooter game. Mortal Kombat was deemed exceptionally violent and The Entertainment Software Ratings Board was formed. Warcraft also exploded onto the scene and was one of the first strategy games with detailed missions. Warcraft has now evolved into one of the most popular multiplayer online games.

In the mid-1990s, PlayStation took the world by storm with Gran Turismo and Resident Evil becoming highly popular games. At the end of the decade, Sega released its last console and the first one capable of online play.

Into the 2000s, Xbox and Nintendo Wii began competing with PlayStation and gaming consoles began to attract people who didn’t normally play game – this was achieved by including Blu-Rays and the capability of streaming music or movies. The online world changed the possibilities of gaming and today gaming clans have emerged – these clans range from a few friends to groups of over 4,000 people and sometimes compete on online platforms. In 2014, VR began to infiltrate the gaming scene and virtual reality began to enhance gaming experiences.

As games become ever more sophisticated, so does the equipment required by gamers – whether they are professionals or occasional dabblers. As with so much technology, Samsung has used its creative innovation to bring exceptional gaming monitors to consumers, enhancing game play and addressing all the unique needs of gamers. The Samsung QLED Gaming Monitor is the perfect tool for gamers who want to fully immerse themselves in their gameplay. With ultra-fast refreshing speeds, OSD dashboard menu, multiple-screen display and best-in-class 3000:1 contrast for deep blacks and brilliant whites, it’s the must-have monitor that will ensure players experience games as intended by developers.

“The Gaming industry is moving quickly from a technology perspective – Samsung is moving as quickly with innovation to enhance game-play and address the unique and specific needs of serious players,” says Mike van Lier, Director Consumer Electronics of Samsung South Africa.

With huge advances in language-processing artificial intelligence, and the creation of open-ended dialogue with computers and accuracy in voice-recognition, gaming will continue to evolve and may just be unrecognisable in the next 10 years.