This year at CES 2026, everyone was quite confused about the new “Micro RGB” and “RGB Mini LED” TVs, which use the same technology but have different names. Now, Sony has come up with another label for its Mini LED TVs with RGB backlighting: True RGB. The company said the idea is to emphasize that separate red, green and blue LED backlights allow for “purer colors, greater brightness and the largest color volume ever achieved in Sony’s home TV history.”
To be clear, this isn’t some new technology that Sony has just come up with – it’s the same Micro RGB technology we saw from Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others earlier this year. These TVs use pure red, green and blue LED backlight along with the LCD layer (instead of solid blue LEDs and quantum dots like Mini LED TVs) to produce the final picture. This display technology provides better color accuracy and greater brightness than regular Mini LED TVs. (This is not the same as OLED technology, in which each pixel acts as a light source.)
However, Sony says the way it processes the image is what makes its True RGB TVs different from rivals. To control the LEDs more precisely, it borrowed algorithms from its extremely expensive professional reference monitors. It is believed that this allows for more precise color control and higher brightness which allows films and series to look exactly as the creators intended. It also reduces “blooming” that occurs when light leaks into neighboring pixels, while improving color accuracy when viewing the TV from an angle.
Every TV manufacturer claims to have the best technology, but Sony has a lot of credibility because of its history with cinema cameras, Hollywood productions, and reference monitors. We’ll have to wait until spring this year to see the new Bravia True RGB TVs, but before then, the company has promised to release “additional details” about them in the near future.
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