November 2025
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LG Signature OLED T. Sony RGB LED TV diagram.
Fresh from winning a CES Best of Innovation
Award, the OLED T offers a zero-distraction glass-like aesthetic that dissolves into the room when not in use.
First seen at CES 2025, its route to market has been long, but it looks to be worth the wait. If OLED dominated the 2010s and Mini LED stoked consumer imagination during the early 2020s, 2026 could be the breakout year for Micro RGB (also being marketed as RGB LED). All signs point to a sizeable shift towards this new technology over the next 12 months. Even LG, long synonymous with OLED, is preparing its own RGB LED assault at CES 2026. This development is particularly interesting given that LG Display actually sold off its final LCD TV panel factory to TCL last April. It’s probably a reasonable assumption that LG’s partner for its Micro RGB adventure will also be TCL.
Micro RGB’s big moment Micro RGB improves on conventional LED panels by replacing white LEDs with independent red, green and blue emitters. The result is a significantly wider colour gamut (approaching Rec.2020), much higher peak brightness and improved energy efficiency TCL and Samsung are expected to lead the charge with new models, but I’m confident rivals won’t be far behind. We know Sony has high hopes for the technology. While it’s not betting the farm on Micro RGB LED, it’s certainly wagering a barn or two. The brand returned to IFA in 2025 for the first time since COVID to impress the industry with a home grown 85-inch RGB LED panel, declaring that the tech “holds enormous potential.”
The Sony RGB LED display is said to cover over 99 per cent of the DCI-P3 colour space and approximately 90 per cent of the BT.2020 colour standard. The shop floor sell will be exceptionally precise backlight illumination with outstanding HDR intensity, upwards of 4000 nits.
35 While Sony doesn’t tend to use CES to
promote individual products these days, it has hinted that smaller (55-inches and above) Micro RGB models are heading our way in 2026. Of course, such high brightness panels
require new mastering approaches, so 2026 will also see two new heavyweight HDR competitors enter the fray - Dolby Vision 2 and HDR10+ Advanced. These new, more processor intensive dynamic HDR technologies, are designed to take advantage of the greater picture prowess
offered by incoming Micro RGB screens. Championed by Samsung, HDR10+ Advanced promises visible improvements over HDR10+, including AI-driven tone mapping; genre-based optimisation; Intelligent Frame Rate Conversion; Enhanced local tone mapping, and expanded use of metadata for better highlight and colour performance Dolby Vision 2, led by Hisense, remains
more opaque when it comes to specific detail, but market inertia suggests both formats may coexist at the premium end. >>
Samsung’s MovingStyle TV.
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