2026 Is the Year of the RGB LED TV

It's like the scariest dinner party I've ever attended. Remember LED, QLED, Mini LED, Micro LED, OLED, QD OLED? Meet RGB LED!

Sadly, all these acronyms do actually mean something, and this year's popular newcomer—RGB LED—implies shockingly accurate colors. Hiding behind upcoming panels from Hisense, Sony, Samsung, and LG announced at CES 2026, RGB LED (unhelpfully also called Micro RGB or RGB Mini LED) is the hot panel technology to talk about this year. I just wish they'd call it “Supercolor,” or something folks could actually remember.

What Is RGB LED?

Modern TVs compete on the qualities of their backlighting and their color representation. Edge-lit LED TVs of the past were thin, but their darkest tones tended toward the gray instead of the truly black.

This has been fixed in recent years by various technologies. Quantum dots help colors appear better ...