Any lingering doubts that Micro and Mini RGB technology looks set to be the biggest TV story of 2026 have been swept away today with the revelation by LG Electronics that it will be launching a range of “Micro RGB Evo” TVs at the upcoming CES 2026 in Las Vegas.

As with Micro and Mini RGB TVs previously announced by TCL, Samsung and Hisense (with the latter two brands actually releasing Micro RGB and Mini RGB TVs respectively in the latter stages of 2025) LG’s Micro RGB Evo TVs appear set to deliver profound advances in LED TV color performance by replacing the normal single blue LEDs pushing light through (in most current regular LED TVs) layers of Quantum Dot film approach with a system where color is created by independent red, green and blue LEDs tucked into a neat optical lens behind the LED panel.

The MRGB95s will be LG Electronics’ first Micro RGB TVs.

Photo: LG Electronics

Joining its arch rival Samsung in going for the Micro RGB name for its new TV technology rather than the Mini RGB name currently preferred by Hisense and TCL suggests that LG has, like Samsung, managed to get its LED lights down to sub 100 micron sizes. An achievement which has the potential, at least, to deliver extra precision in the delivery of the much wider color gamuts and volumes RGB LED technology is capable of.

Set to be available in 75, 86 and 100-inch screen sizes (the latter of which has already won a CES 2026 Innovation Award), LG’s MRGB95 Micro RGB Evo TVs are claimed to be capable of covering a full 100% of the key DCI-P3, Adobe RGB and even BT.2020 color spectrums – claims supported by renowned independent testing company Intertek.

A new era of color?

The BT.2020 color spectrum is so wide that up until now it’s almost exclusively been used as a “container” format for narrower spectrums, but now that the MRGB95 range of TVs is joining other Mini and Micro RGB sets in claiming full BT.2020 coverage, it’s tempting to think that there might at least be discussions taking place somewhere in the creative world about taking advantage of what BT.2020 could do. Even if the filmmaking world tends to be pretty conservative about such matters.

While LG won’t be drawn on the exact number of independently controlled local dimming zones being used to help further control the use of light in its MRGB95 range, it does state that there are more than a thousand – an impressive figure that presumably even extends to the smallest screen in the MRGB95 series.

Powerful new processing

Controlling all of those zones and optimizing the capabilities of the new Micro RGB lighting system will, of course, require a particularly big TV brain. Cue LG’s new Dual AI Engine-based Alpha 11 AI Processor Gen 3, which as well as providing enhanced Micro Dimming Ultra control over the local dimming system also deploys an RGB Primary Color Ultra feature for unlocking the full color potential of the new type of LED panel, and powers a new Dual Super Upscaling feature that delivers simultaneously two separate types of AI upscaling to enhance the sharpness of HD sources without the resulting pictures looking unnatural or unbalanced.

The latest AI processing techniques are present, too, in the many personalisation features of LG’s latest webOS platform. Voice ID enables the TVs to switch to different users’ personalised home pages just by recognising their speech; improved AI Picture and Sound wizards help optimize the TV’s performance to your personal tastes; and upgraded AI Concierge, AI Chatbot and AI Search features respectively help you explore the TV’s AI features, delve into ways of improving the TV’s performance/troubleshoot problems, and receive more intelligent and connected responses to your content search requests.

“Achieving the utmost visual fidelity is the goal of any display,” says Park Hyoung-sei, president of the LG Media Entertainment Solution Company. “And with the LG Micro RGB evo, we have achieved a milestone previously thought impossible for this category. This launch marks the evolution of the RGB TV, redefining industry standards to offer uncompromising performance for customers who demand exceptional color accuracy.”

The LG Micro RGB range will be on show at booth #15004 at the CES from January 6-9, though an on-sale date for the TVs has yet to be confirmed. Pricing is yet to be confirmed too, though intriguingly LG has confirmed that it is actually ranging the MRGB95 TVs below its premium OLED TVs…

Look out for further updates on my Forbes channel in the coming weeks and months.

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