Samsung Electronics has announced the South Korean launch of its much-vaunted Micro RGB TV, first seen at CES 2025, the world’s first television to feature millions of new, micro-scale RGB LEDs packed behind a monster 115-inch screen.
The TV is launching in Korea first, and will soon be available in the U.S., followed by a global launch later in the year.
Samsung first showed off the new Micro RGB technology at CES 2025 in January, where it promised it will dramatically enhance the status of LCD TVs. The display maps and controls each of the individual mini-LEDs, which are red, green and blue, at a “micrometre-scale”, vastly improving the visual fidelity of LCD displays.
Essentially, with Micro RGB, the existing Mini-LED backlights found on Samsung’s Neo QLED 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.
Samsung said the display is controlled by its Micro RGB AI Engine, which works by analysing each frame in real-time, optimising the colour output to match the source material more precisely. It can enhance dull colour tones to make them more immersive and vivid, bringing greater clarity to what’s seen on screen.
The Samsung Micro RGB TV is said to achieve 100% coverage of the BT.2020 colour standard and has received Verband der Elektrotechnik’s “Micro RGB Precision Colour” certification.
Other features of the 4K resolution TV include a 144Hz refresh rate to support motion blur-free gaming, AI upscaling for low-resolution content, HDR10+, and a 70-watt 4.2.2-channel sound system that supports Dolby Atmos. There are four HDMI 2.1 ports, Samsung said, plus a couple of USB-A connections, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth offering further connectivity options. What’s more, if you want to hook up some Philips Hue lights to enhance the mood in your living room, the TV possesses the ability to sync the lighting effects with what’s being shown on screen.
HDTV Test's Vincent Teoh got a very brief, first look at the RGB MicroLED TV during CES in January, and he said he was mightily impressed with what he saw:
The Samsung Micro RGB TV is priced at 44.9 million won in South Korea, which converts to around £25,000 or $32,000 at the current exchange rate. Samsung didn’t offer any dates, but said it will pursue a sequential rollout in the U.S. soon, followed by other regions.
Consumers will initially only be able to purchase the monster-sized 115-inch model to begin with, but the company has previously said it has plans to launch additional models in both 4K and 8K resolution. There will be 75-inch and 85-inch 4K models, while the 8K model will come in 98-inches, but there’s no indication of when they might be released.
Samsung’s upgraded Mini-LED technology isn’t entirely unique. Earlier this year, Sony touted its upcoming RGB LED Backlight tech, which is thought to be similar with its independent red, green and blue LEDs. The technology is expected to debut on Sony’s flagship 2026 TVs, so we might have to wait another year yet before we see it.
Meanwhile, Hisense has a similar technology in its Hisense 116UX RGB-Mini LED TV, which was also announced at CES. The Chinese company said that model uses an RGB Local Dimming system capable of reproducing 97% of the BT.2020 colour gamut, so it might be a tad less accurate than Samsung’s model.
Vincent Teoh recently got a first look at it and took some initial measurements and it looks like quite a sight to behold!
