Sony’s Dazzling New RGB LED TV Comes in 2026

LED TVs are astir to get a batch better. As demonstrated by Hisense and to immoderate grade Samsung astatine CES 2025, a caller backlight exertion called RGB LED is poised to amended the prime and ratio of TVs that usage LED backlights and LCD panels to enactment their magic.

The innovative caller tech should assistance LED TVs springiness much premium-priced emissive screens similar OLEDs, which make airy imaging astatine the pixel level, a superior tally for their money. As of today, Sony has officially enactment its chapeau successful the RGB TV ring.

A New Kind of LED

Unlike accepted LED TVs that usage axenic achromatic LEDs (or the tinier mini-LEDs) that airy up show layers similar colour filters and an LCD sheet to make an image, RGB LED TVs usage tri-colored red, green, and bluish lights that make colors straight astatine the root of the sheet stack. This tin supply important advantages implicit today’s champion mini-LED TVs, including higher brightness, little blooming (light bleed astir agleam images), and purer, much close colors.

While Samsung hasn’t disclosed overmuch astir its RGB tech, Hisense claims its 116-inch UX Trichroma RGB TV, unveiled successful Las Vegas successful January, provides colour accuracy astatine an astonishing 97 percent of the next-gen BT.2020 colour gamut spec. The TV besides claims an eye-blasting 10,000 nits highest brightness, though that's improbable to equate to overmuch real-world content, mastered astatine 4,000 nits oregon less. The TV is acceptable for merchandise successful 2025, with pricing yet to beryllium disclosed.

Turns out, Sony has been moving connected its ain mentation of this exertion for its mini-LED panels for years now. Not to beryllium outdone by its competitors, the TV pioneer flew a unit of planetary journalists and reviewers, myself included, to its Tokyo office for a firsthand look astatine its latest and top location theatre creations. Its RGB LED TV prototype was the pièce de résistance.

Sony Has Entered the Chat

Even for those of america steeped successful TV exertion and its flurry of acronyms, it’s not casual breaking down a caller show benignant you’ve hardly seen successful action. Luckily, cipher explains TV tech amended than Sony's engineers.

At its Tokyo HQ demo, Sony took the look disconnected its RGB prototype to amusement the backlight strategy successful action. In fact, the institution took half the look off, truthful we were capable to spot the earthy backlighting and afloat realized representation side-by-side successful 1 display. To our corporate amazement, the RGB LEDs were capable to make wholly recognizable colour images. The backlight-only images looked astir similar 8-bit pixelated versions of the regular scenes astatine the left, but adjacent tiny details were often apparent. Again, this was just the backlights making the picture, moving successful performance with Sony’s XR Backlight Master Drive algorithm technology.