LG Electronics has announced that at CES in Las Vegas next month, it will be unveiling a new Micro RGB TV, the Micro RGB Evo. It’s not announcing pricing yet, but LG says the TV will come in 100-inch, 86-inch, and 75-inch sizes. Hopefully they’ll be more affordable than Samsung’s 115-inch Micro RGB behemoth, or Hisense’s 116-inch RGB MiniLED TV, each of which goes for about $30,000.
Micro RGB is the latest in TV tech being presented as a high-contrast, higher-brightness alternative to OLED TVs. It’s not MicroLED, a similar-sounding TV panel tech that is a bit like OLED but with pixels made up of individually lit RGB LEDs. Instead, this tech uses clustered RGB LEDs to backlight a normal LCD panel – it still achieves dimming like a MiniLED would, but with a wider potential color gamut. LG says the new Micro RGB Evo can hit 100 percent coverage in BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB, and that it offers over 1,000 dimming zones, which is about on par with many MiniLEDs.
Because it’s LED-lit, rather than OLED, the Micro RGB Evo should be less prone to burn-in and therefore capable of getting much brighter overall. Combined with the wider range of colors, that means better HDR without giving up nearly as much of the deep contrast of OLED as you might with a traditional LCD TV. For most of us, though, it probably won’t be worth the cost quite yet – there’s no way these TVs will dip into the range of affordability that LG’s OLEDs sit in. But I’m sure it’ll be very nice to look at. If you buy one, invite me over to watch a movie.
Apart from the dazzling new display tech, LG says this TV will use the charmingly-named Dual AI Engine-based Alpha 11 AI Processor Gen 3, “which features Dual Super Upscaling to simultaneously process two types of AI upscaling.” It’ll run WebOS, of course, and will come with a number of AI features like a chatbot and AI-based search, and so on. Look for more info about the LG Micro RGB Evo early next month, during CES 2026, which starts on January 6.
Wes is a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they call him) who has covered technology, gaming, and entertainment steadily since 2020 at Gizmodo, Tom’s Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and most recently, The Verge. Inside of him there are two wolves: one that thinks it wouldn’t be so bad to start collecting game consoles again, and the other who also thinks this, but more strongly.
