LG Electronics’ stunning new Magnit Active Micro LED home cinema display is about to go on sale in the U.S. following its debut in South Korea in October.
Designed for home theatres and luxury mansion-style homes, the LG Magnit Active Micro LED TV is absolutely huge, measuring a whopping 136-inches diagonally. It’s a modular TV, made up of four 68-inch cabinets that each contain a number of display modules that feature a resolution of 480 x 540 and a pixel pitch of 0.78 millimetres.
Unlike its previous Magnit TV models, which were also based on MicroLED tech, the Magnit Active Micro LED TV is the first to feature Active Matrix technology, enabling more enhanced pixel control to reproduce scenes more realistically than anything else before it.
Some readers may be familiar with MicroLED display technology, even if they don’t actually own such a display. Very few people do, because although it’s said to be superior to OLED, its cost is vastly superior too. In other words, they’re very, very expensive, but if you have the cash, you may consider that the Magnit Active Micro LED TV is a worthwhile investment.
MicroLED goes beyond OLED, with self-emissive pixels that don’t require the organic compounds that can limit brightness and degrade over time. It works much the same way, with each pixel generating its own light, but it can achieve much higher brightness to deliver exceptional contrast and the deepest blacks.
With the Magnit Active Micro LED TV, LG is adding Active Matrix control into the mix for the first time. Whereas traditional “passive matrix” systems control pixels by rows or columns, the Active Matrix tech allows each of the millions of tiny pixels to be controlled independently of every other, meaning that imagery can be reproduced far more realistically on this TV.
As a result, LG is claiming a world-beating 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, which should translate to some of the most refined 4K resolution details ever seen on a TV – even one as large as this, at more than three metres wide and 1.7 metres tall. The company also noted that the Magnit Active Micro LED TV has been certified by TÜV Rheinland for Colour Consistency Wide Viewing, which means it’s able to replicate accurate pictures with uniform colour and contrast at the widest viewing angles. Furthermore, LG claims to have refined its modular design, so the gaps between the MicroLED panels that make up the TV are barely visible.
The latest Magnit is powered by LG’s most advanced α9 AI Processor 6th Generation chip, which applies AI algorithms to analyse whatever content is being fed into the TV in real time, so it can optimise the picture on screen on a scene-by-scene basis. According to LG, the chip is able to recognise different elements such as people, faces, objects, backgrounds and text and refine and sharpen these individually, while stripping out any noise in the signals. It promised that it helps everything to look much more natural compared to any other kind of TV picture.
All of the expected features, such as seamless gaming and Dolby Vision HDR support are on board, enhanced by the display’s 144Hz refresh rate, while the sound is generated by integrated speakers on both sides of the TV. LG said this is a 4.2-channel built-in sound system that delivers a total of 100-watts of sound. The HDMI ports support enhanced Audio Return Channel to support lossless playback.
LG said U.S. residents will be able to purchase the Magnit Active Micro LED TV starting on January 6, at the same time as its showcased at the company’s booth during next month’s CES 2026 show in Las Vegas. The company has not disclosed a price, not even in South Korea where the display is already on sale, but Google Gemini cites various reports that say it’s likely to cost more than $250,000 (over £187,000). So we don’t expect too many people to actually end up owning one.
A more realistic purchase might be the promised “scaled down” version of the Magnit Active Micro LED TV that the company says will launch next year, but it’s still unlikely to be within the realms of what 99% of people consider to be “affordable”.
