It never ceases to amaze me that we are still coming up with new ways of making televisions. Aren’t they supposed to be mature products that hardly get any attention? But it certainly wasn’t the case at CES 2026, where we got barraged by the new display tech that every TV manufacturer are pushing this year.
This new tech is RGB Mini-LED. It’s an upgrade over the Mini-LED TVs that’s currently in the market. If you need a quick primer, we wrote about Sony’s implementation last year. But in short, RGB Mini-LED TVs will offer purer, more accurate colours (100% BT 2020), higher brightness (up to 10,000 nits), and higher contrast compared with older Mini-LED TVs.
These characteristics make RGB Mini-LED TVs even more of a threat to OLEDs. In fact, LG Display, which makes OLEDs for TV makers, launched a YouTube series to counter the hype of RGB Mini-LED TVs, highlighting some of the potential issues with this tech.…
