A stunning Wallpaper set, glorious Micro RGB colors and a better Gallery TV

LG usually announces its CES TV lineup well in advance of the show, but this year the company had a surprise at CES 2026: the return of its ultra-thin “wallpaper” TVs. It now has a gorgeous OLED screen and wireless connectivity, and is almost as thin as a pencil. We got a chance to see the Wallpaper TV as well as the previously announced Gallery and Micro RGB sets during the CES preview event. LG still has its signature OLED and LED sets, but it’s clear that 2026 will be full of interesting TVs for a variety of consumers.

Wallpaper TV (LG W6)

If money were no object, I would immediately want a 100-inch LG Wallpaper TV in my family room. It looks surprisingly slim in person – almost as if it’s some kind of sci-fi prop – and it delivers the rich colors and depth levels we’ve come to expect from OLED. Cable management is also a difficult task, as it only requires one power cable. A/V input is handled by LG’s One Connect box, which you can wirelessly place up to 10 meters away from the TV.

The LG W6 combines the best of LG’s OLED technology, including “Hyper Radiant Color” for better black levels and color, “Brightness Booster Ultra” to boost brightness up to 3.9x more than traditional OLED, and a reflection-free screen material. LG’s Alpha 9 Gen 3 processor boosts its performance, and its NPU also helps with upscaling and improving overall image performance. (And yes, if you’re into that sort of thing, you can also access generative AI features through Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini.)

It all adds up to some of the most remarkable TV I’ve seen in years. I haven’t been too impressed with other TV gimmicks lately, like Samsung’s The Frame, or those trying to mimic useless 8K sets. But is there an ultra-thin wireless TV with the best OLED panel available? This is the stuff dreams are made of.

Gallery TV competes with Samsung’s Frame

While LG has made gallery TVs before, in 2026 it’s making a more concerted effort to take on Samsung’s popular Frame TVs. LG says the new sets were designed with the help of museum curators, allowing “Gallery Mode” to adjust the brightness and contrast of specific works of art. They also come with magnetic frame-like bezels, and they have anti-reflective screens to help the art shine.

In person, the new Gallery TV looks fine, although it’s easy to tell that color and contrast levels don’t match LG’s premium OLED TVs. To avoid burn-in problems, these sets feature mini LED panels. As I mentioned above, I’m not a major consumer of either of these TVs, but it’s nice to see more competition against Samsung’s Frame TVs. (Despite pioneering the idea of ​​TVs that display art, frame sets are still pretty mediocre when it comes to actually watching TV shows and movies.)

Micro RGB looks like a real Mini LED upgrade

As if we needed more TV acronyms to worry about, say hello to Micro RGB, a new technology designed to cover a much wider color range over Mini LED. Just don’t confuse it with Micro LED, which is an extremely expensive evolutionary step to OLED. LG announced its Micro RGB set just a few weeks ago, but that didn’t quite prepare me for standing in front of the 100-inch demo TV it brought to CES. In a variety of clips, colors looked surprisingly rich, and the overall texture of images looked surprisingly lifelike.

To really see how Micro RGB competes with OLED, I’d have to compare it to LG’s Wall TV, but technically OLED should still offer better contrast and black levels, since each of its pixels is self-emitting. But of course, if I couldn’t get a 100-inch wall TV in my family room, I certainly wouldn’t turn down a giant micro RGB.

What about LG’s other OLED TVs?

All the next-generation OLED technology in wallpaper TVs will also come to LG’s G6 OLED models, while the new C6 and other lines will see improvements of their own. All I can say is that the new G6 OLED looked impressive with a significantly brighter picture and HDR elements than the G-series OLED from several years ago.