It’s sure to be the start of a number of announcements, with LG confirming that it’s releasing its first flagship RGB TV in 2026. This was no big secret, as “a premium LCD TV with Micro RGB technology” won the CES 2026 Innovation Award in November. But it is now confirmed that the LG Micro RGB Evo TV will be released in 2026 in 100-, 86- and 75-inch sizes, with US pricing to be announced later.
The Micro RGB Evo TV will use an upgraded version of LG’s Alpha 11 processor, which is usually reserved for the company’s high-end OLED displays like the LG G5. The TV has been certified by Intertek – a testing and certification company – to achieve BT.2020, DCI-P3 and 100 percent gamut coverage of the Adobe RGB color gamut. There are no details on how bright the TV will get (I expect the brightest highlights to easily eclipse 5,000 nits).
CES – and 2026 in general – looks to be the year of RGB TVs as more companies are likely to release flagship models with the technology. It started when Hisense debuted the 116-inch 116UX on the CES 2025 show floor, and Samsung showcased its 115-inch Micro RGB TV, which was released last August. But I expect we’ll see more of them and smaller sizes to compete with the new LG Micro RGB this coming January. (When I met with Samsung in August to see its Micro RGB TVs, a representative told me, “We have exciting things going for Micro RGB.”) TCL has already shown two RGB TV models for the Chinese market, and Sony will release its TrueRGB TVs in early 2026.
It’s important to note that Micro RGB technology is not MicroLED, which uses microscopic red, green and blue LEDs for each pixel. The RGB technology we’re seeing here from LG (and Samsung, Hisense, and eventually Sony and TCL in other examples) uses red, green, and blue LEDs in clusters that provide lighting for multiple pixels. They’re still incredibly small – hence the micro in the name – and three different colored LEDs provide better gamut coverage and color purity, but the TV still requires a color filter to properly produce color for each individual pixel. The LED displays we are all used to produce blue or white backlight.
The versions of RGB LED technology I’ve seen so far from Hisense and Samsung have been incredibly impressive, with crisp, lifelike images that are better than anything currently on the market. But they’ve also been huge TVs that cost thousands of dollars — not something most of us would ever put in our homes. Now that each TV company is releasing their own versions and in smaller sizes, hopefully prices will come down to a more reasonable level.
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