A new kind of premium television technology is dominating attention at CES 2026 as Micro RGB TVs move into the spotlight. After arriving quietly last year this display technology is now positioned as the latest luxury option promising major gains in colour accuracy brightness and viewing realism compared to existing TV panels.
To understand why Micro RGB matters it helps to look at how flat panel displays evolved. Early LCD TVs relied on liquid crystals and white backlights but struggled with weak blacks uneven lighting and reduced brightness due to colour filters. LED backlights improved brightness efficiency and contrast while quantum dot technology introduced purer colours and higher accuracy. Mini LED later added thousands of dimming zones for better control yet blooming and imperfect blacks remained. OLED solved contrast by switching pixels off individually delivering perfect blacks but faced limits in brightness and the risk of burn in. Micro LED improved on OLED using inorganic LEDs but costs kept it out of reach with only ultra expensive models like a $40000 wall sized display available.
Micro RGB builds on Mini LED by replacing uniform white or blue backlights with precise red green and blue LEDs. These shine through a liquid crystal layer with far more dimming zones. The result is much higher colour accuracy stronger contrast than standard Mini LED and brightness that can exceed OLED. While it cannot fully switch pixels off like OLED or Micro LED it comes closer than any LED TV before. The first commercial model is Samsung’s 115-inch 4K MR95F which delivers 100% BT.2020 HDR coverage for the first time in a consumer TV. That means billions of colours with greater realism than quantum dot panels. The TV impressed observers with “stunningly rich and vivid colours that put Samsung’s other top tier TVs to shame” and launched at $29999.
At CES 2026 the line-up is expanding fast. Samsung announced Micro RGB TVs from 55 inch to 115 inches under a new Micro RGB Precision Colour 100 certification. A 130-inch prototype also drew crowds with its “colour accuracy and richness.” LG revealed its first Micro RGB Evo TVs in 75-inch 86 inch and 100-inch sizes promising 100% BT.2020 and 100% SDR coverage including Adobe RGB and P3. Observers said colours looked “wonderfully rich” and images felt lifelike. Hisense introduced RGB Mini LED models from 55 inch to 100 inch claiming up to 110% BT.2020 coverage and also unveiled a 163-inch RGBY Micro LED TV adding yellow to expand colour detail where vision is most sensitive.
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