Samsung has announced it will offer its Micro RGB TV in a lot more sizes. Starting sometime in 2026, you’ll be able to get one of the company’s OLED alternatives in sizes as low as 55 inches – all with AI features, of course. Can’t not have that.
The TVs will also come in 65, 75, 85, 100, and 115 inches. Samsung isn’t ready to say how much they’ll cost, though. I’m sure they won’t be cheap, but I’m sure the smaller ones’ price tags will be easier to stomach than the $30,000 the company charges for its current 115-inch model. Why so expensive? Well, the tech is new and promises a richness of color not possible with current LCD panels, apparently hitting 100% of the BT.2020 color gamut. That’s something even IGN’s favorite gaming TV, the Samsung S90F OLED, can’t manage.
Micro RGB uses tiny red, green, and blue LED lights to backlight an LCD panel, enhancing the color of the image while also providing zoned dimming, like on a MiniLED TV, which only uses blue LEDs. It’s still not going to have the perfect contrast of an OLED TV, but it will get much brighter and display much richer color than either OLED or MiniLED.
Besides being pretty to look at, the TVs will have AI chipsets for “precise frame-by-frame clarity and realism,” along with picture-altering features labeled with marketing terms like Micro RGB Color Booster Pro and Micro RGB HDR Pro, which the company says will make “content feel as real as seeing it in person” – which, well, we’ll see about that.
Lastly, the panels will come with a new anti-glare coating that Samsung has been touting since its S95D OLED of 2024, but which some high-end TV knowers aren’t terribly fond of. (They say it makes the inky blacks of high-contrast OLEDs not so inky.) Even so, I’m sure the TVs will look wonderful in these new sizes. And if Samsung isn’t usually your bag, never fear – LG announced its own line of Micro RGB TVs yesterday, albeit not in sizes quite so small.
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.
