We knew it was on the cards after winning a CES Innovation award earlier this month, and now LG Electronics’ first RGB LED TV has been officially announced, with the company promising to reveal many more details at next months’ Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
LG hasn’t revealed the full specifications of what is sure to be one of its most anticipated new TVs for 2026, but we do know its official name. The LG Micro RGB evo TV, as it’s called, will launch sometime next year, and there will be three sizes to choose from – with 75-inch, 86-inch and 100-inch models all promised to be on the menu.
The company said the Micro RGB evo TV will use an upgraded version of the Alpha 11 chipset found on this year’s LG G5 OLED TV, so it’s going to have one of the most advanced processors around, and that, combined with the cutting-edge RGB-LED display tech, should make it a very compelling product. LG said the TV has also been certified to reach an impressive 100% of the Adobe RGB, BT.2020 and DCI-P3 colour palettes, which is extremely impressive and not something we’ve ever seen before.
LG did not mention how bright the TV will be, but we’d imagine it’s able to hit at least 5,000 nits, if not higher. Also expect super contrast with thousands of local dimming zones.
There’s a growing consensus that next year is going to be the year that RGB LED TVs really start to make their mark. The technology first appeared earlier this year and it’s quite the novelty, combining aspects of both Mini-LED and MicroLED.
Essentially, with RGB LED TVs, the backlights on Mini-LED TVs are swapped out for an RGB MicroLED backlight. This gives the TV a much wider colour gamut, with more local dimming zones that can be controlled independently, while also improving energy efficiency by around 20%. This allows the TV to control lighting and colour much more precisely than traditional backlit Mini-LED TVs, meaning the colour reproduction is more accurate and true-to-life.
The first company to showcase an RGB LED TV was Hisense, which unveiled the 116-inch UX TV at CES 2025 in January before launching it in the U.S. and then the U.K. in August. Samsung quickly followed, with its ever-so-slightly smaller 115-inch Micro RGB TV also making its debut at CES before going on sale in South Korea, just days after Hisense beat it to the market. Sony has also revealed plans to debut its first RGB LED TV next year, and gave us the lowdown on the technology in March. TCL is also expected to launch RGB LED TVs globally in 2026, though its flagship will not use the tech, but rather “Super Quantum Dot Mini-LED” instead.
We should point out that “Micro RGB” is a marketing name for RGB LED TVs, and it’s not the same as MicroLED, which is a superior technology that utilises microscopic red, green and blue LEDs for each pixel. RGB LED uses red, green and blue LEDs in clusters to provide the light source for multiple pixels, and they’re still tiny, but they also use a colour filter for each pixel.
Still, the advantage of RGB LED is that it’s much more affordable than MicroLED, which remains an exclusive, high-end toy for only the richest people. Moreover, the existing models we’ve seen from Hisense and Samsung are extremely impressive, with their vibrant images among the best that we’ve ever seen.
That’s not to say RGB LED TVs aren’t ridiculously expensive – they are, but with many smaller models set to launch next year, they should fall within the acceptable price range of many more buyers than MicroLED does, and that means we can expect to see them in a lot more living rooms starting next year.
Of course, OLED will likely remain the premium technology of choice for the majority of consumers, followed by Mini-LED, which will continue to be a favourite for many thousands of buyers in the market for a high-end TV in 2026.
