In what is sure to be the beginning of a slew of announcements, LG has confirmed it is releasing its first flagship RGB TV in 2026. It wasn’t a huge secret, considering “a premium LCD TV with Micro RGB technology” won a CES 2026 Innovation Award in November. But it’s now certain 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 at a later date.
The Micro RGB evo TV will use an upgraded version of LG’s Alpha 11 processor, 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 100 percent gamut coverage of BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB color gamuts. 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 the RGB TV as more companies are likely to release flagship models with the technology. It first started when Hisense debuted the 116-inch 116UX on the CES 2025 show floor, and Samsung displayed its 115-inch Micro RGB TV, which was released this past August. But I expect this coming January we’ll see more of them and in smaller sizes to compete with the new LG Micro RGB. (When I met with Samsung in August to see its Micro RGB TV, a rep told me, “We have exciting things ahead for Micro RGB.”) TCL has already shown two RGB TV models for the Chinese market, and Sony will release its TrueRGB TV early in 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 in other instances from Samsung, Hisense, and eventually Sony and TCL) uses red, green, and blue LEDs in clusters that provide light for multiple pixels. They’re still incredibly small — hence the micro in the name — and the three discrete colored LEDs deliver improved gamut coverage and color purity, but the TV still requires a color filter to properly produce color for each individual pixel. The LED displays all of us are used to create either a blue or white backlight.
The versions of RGB LED tech from Hisense and Samsung I’ve seen so far have been incredibly impressive, with punchy, vibrant images that are better than anything currently on the market. But they’ve also been huge TVs that cost tens of thousands of dollars — not something most of us will ever put in our homes. Now that each TV company seems to be releasing its own versions, and in smaller sizes, hopefully prices will come down to a more reasonable level.
