What Is a Micro RGB TV and Why You’re Gonna See Them In every single place

Within the realm of complicated acronyms describing as we speak’s swath of TV show varieties, the nascent “micro RGB” is now set to flood showrooms beginning in 2026. So what the hell is it, and why are main TV manufacturers all of a sudden staking a declare on yet one more display kind? Let’s discover, as a result of come the brand new yr and CES 2026, they’re going to be in all places.

For example, Samsung spent CES 2025 promising to launch completely huge micro RGB TVs. It then introduced the expertise to the fore in the course of 2025 with a ludicrous $30,000 115-inch offering. micro RGB screens are much like the native dimming expertise of mini LED, besides as an alternative of white or blue gentle LEDs behind a liquid crystal show (therefore the title LCD), these shows use tiny 100μm LEDs able to emitting purple, inexperienced, or blue gentle independently. On Tuesday, LG was first out of the gate, asserting its future micro RGB evo TV guarantees 100% coloration accuracy throughout Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, and BT.2020 coloration area requirements.

LG’s micro RGB evo TVs solely are available in 75-, 86-, and 100-inch flavors, so it’s not any sort of display that the overwhelming majority of shoppers will search to purchase. In that regard, Samsung is properly forward of the sport because it’s planning to launch a complete lineup of micro RGB in 55-, 65-, 75-, 85-, 100-, and 115-inch flavors. Samsung’s TVs will nonetheless be in a brand new “premium class,” in line with its press announcement, so don’t anticipate even the cheap 55-inch mannequin to be reasonably priced. The display expertise continues to be comparatively new, and meaning the capability for these screens is restricted and can essentially demand the next value.

So why can we even care about micro RGB?

The entire level of a micro RGB TV is to supply higher coloration management for a extra correct image high quality. Micro RGB continues to be LCD, which suggests it might want to compete in opposition to the reigning champs of OLED shows. Natural light-emitting diode shows use self-emissive lights to supply ultra-deep black ranges and high-contrast colours. Trendy OLED screens now embrace QD-OLED, which provides a quantum dot layer to reinforce coloration accuracy on screens, and tandem OLED—which is 2 layers of diodes to reinforce brightness. OLED display varieties was far costlier (and with that, undergo a threat of burn-in, the place the image would etch completely onto the display), however fashionable iterations are each cheaper and safer in the long run.

TV manufacturers are all the time trying to be on the bleeding fringe of display applied sciences. Nevertheless, what’s extra necessary for shoppers is affordability. Samsung is correct to start out providing smaller display sizes that may match inside individuals’s residing rooms. The jury continues to be out on whether or not RGB will really beat the shows now we have or just change into yet one more bland taste of LCD.

Oh nice, extra TVs are getting AI ‘options’

Whereas micro RGB might current a great image for TV, films, or sports activities, different display varieties could also be higher for gaming. OLED usually sports activities higher response instances, which suggests the picture of the display refreshes sooner—one thing necessary for enjoying video games with higher movement readability and fewer enter lag. We don’t have the precise response instances or refresh charge specs on any of those new micro RGB TVs simply but (Samsung’s authentic 115-incher maxed out at 144Hz). LG’s micro RGB evo TV will use the identical α11 AI Processor Gen 3 as its high-end OLED screens with an upgraded AI upscaler, although it will likely be utilizing the corporate’s webOS platform.

Samsung’s TV is promising a “multi-agent platform” that means the Korean tech big will likely be shoving a chatbot inside its newest screens. So until you actually need to have a “pure dialog with Bixby” or seek for content material utilizing AI, you’re in any other case being requested to make use of options like Reside Translate on a display. TCL stuck Google Gemini into its TVs this yr. In follow, the “function” was as lame and inconsequential because it sounds. We doubt Samsung’s implementation will likely be any extra fascinating, regardless of the novel display expertise.