Black Friday monitor deals are starting to roll out, with major retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Currys, Dell, and others in the US and UK launching sales on very best monitors, best gaming monitors, and more.
While Black Friday deals officially falls on November 29, early sales events—such as the Best Buy Black Friday sale—are already offering some of the year's biggest discounts, rivaling those on the big day itself.
For instance, you can snag the impressive Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 for just $1,078.99 at Best Buy, a massive $721 discount. In the UK, there are excellent Black Friday monitor deals as well, like the MSI MPG 491CQP gaming monitor, now available for just £798 at Currys, saving you £301.
From now through December, I'll be curating the best monitor deals for you, leveraging years of experience reviewing displays to ensure my recommendations are ones you can trust this Black Friday.
Today's best monitor deals in the US
- Amazon: discounts on all kinds of monitors
- Best Buy: monitor deals from $89.99
- Newegg: great deals on gaming displays
- Walmart: cheap monitors from under $100
- Adorama: premium and ultrawide deals
- Acer: great offers on home, office, and gaming displays
- Dell: find incredible savings directly from Dell
- HP: save up to $239.98 on home and office monitors
- Samsung: save up to $1,200 on high-end displays
Today's best monitor deals in the UK
- Amazon: tonnes of monitor deals
- Argos: a range of options from £79
- Currys: every kind of PC monitors on sale
- Ebuyer: decent discounts and lots of options
- Laptops Direct: save on FHD, 4K, and ultrawides
- Acer: save up to £450 off on home, office, and gaming monitors
- Dell: get up to £158 off on great Dell monitors
- HP: discounts of 10% or more on office and gaming displays
- Samsung: savings up to £500 on select monitors
I've been reviewing monitors for TechRadar for nearly five years now, and as I head into my fifth Black Friday deals season, I'm here to bring my years of experience and expertise to bear to help you find the right display for your needs and budget.
BLACK FRIDAY Monitor DEALS 2024: FAQs
When will Black Friday monitor deals start in 2024?
Black Friday 2024 falls on November 29, but it's no longer the case that the best Black Friday monitor deals are released on the day itself. In recent years, retailers have released record-low prices on a range of monitors during early sales, allowing consumers to secure a display ahead of Black Friday proper, so the deals we're seeing now will be just as good as you'll find on the big day itself.
What specs should I look for when buying a monitor on Black Friday?
One of the things to be most aware of as you search for Black Friday monitor deals is that retailers are trying to push off old stock. This means that you might come across what looks to be a great deal, only to find out later that the monitor is several years old with outdated specs. Of course, that doesn’t make it useless, as most monitors are still perfectly usable.
Keep in mind that monitors at the very least should be 1080p resolution, which is really the bare minimum HD resolution these days, though preferably 1440p (or even 4K, if you can afford it). From there, your needs will vary based on what kind of work you need your monitor for.
For instance, if you do professional work like photography or video editing, you’ll need a monitor with color gamut coverage that allows for proper color correction. At least 98% sRGB color gamut coverage should be the minimum, with specific gamuts like DCI-P3 for video editing and Adobe RGB for photo editing and processing should also be greater than 95%. This ensures that any other monitor viewing that professional material will see images and video in its proper colors across the board.
Brightness is also an important factor for image color quality and accuracy as well, with the higher number being better. Going for 300 nits and above is a great place to start.
Meanwhile, the two most important factors other than resolution for gaming monitors are refresh rate and pixel response time. For the former, the higher the number the better since it represents the number of times per second the image refreshes on the screen. Refresh rates of 144Hz and above are particularly good.
For pixel response, you'll want to have as low as a number as possible, as it represents the amount of time it takes to shift from one color to another, with lower numbers meaning a much sharper and clearer image. A response time of 1ms or less is especially great for gaming and is what you want to strive for.
Other features like picture-in-picture, KVM, and more are all nice to have, and the choice between an IPS, mini-LED, or OLED panel is going to make a huge difference in the quality of the image, but also in how much you're going to pay for it. Generally, start off with IPS panels, which look good enough and are much cheaper. OLED panels look stunning and offer incredible color contrast and pixel response, but these are also very expensive, and have issues with image burn-in over time. mini-LED, meanwhile, is a great compromise between the two.
Why you can trust TechRadar this Black Friday
We've been covering Black Friday sales for over a decade here at TechRadar, and our collective experience allows us to sort the great deals from the clearance rubbish that you're going to want to avoid, no matter the price.
The TechRadar computing team is especially knowledgeable when it comes to monitors, having reviewed hundreds of them over our 15 years, and we're here to leverage all of that experience and testing to help you find the right monitor deal that gets you the display you want at a great price.
What's more, I'm only including deals on this page that we've actually reviewed on the site, so you can read more about what our team thinks of them so you'll know these deals have been fully vetted by the pros.
