Is the new RGB Backlight Tech technology from Sony is an answer to OLED?


Sony says she is developing the new background lighting technology for LEDS RBG. “But wait, is not all the rear lights RGB LEDS?” If this is what you think, no, in fact it is not. What is your next idea? “Certainly someone did this before?” In fact, yes, Sony did, About 20 years ago. But this development of technology, originally known as Triluminos, is considered to be better colors and contrast than before. It may even compete OLED In terms of image quality.

Currently, Sony talks about technology only, not any specific product that can be found. However, the fact that you talk about Sony means that we will see this technology on real TVs soon. This is why it’s interesting.

Back lighting, RGB and others

LED background

Two of the company takes on the background LED. All of these four TV devices display the same image. Each TV at the top is the same model in front of it, only with the removal of the liquid crystal layer until you look directly to the LED backlight. Notice how TVs on the right, with more areas and control the best rear lighting, show brighter lantern.

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First, a short step back to explain the rear lighting. All modern TV devices that are not OLED are LCD. These have different names, such as QLED, QNED, and of course the misleading “LED”. Little mini leadership It is the progress that contains LED lights smaller than other LCD LED technologies, usually more than them. Then there microleed Offers, which are not LCD screens, but they are not a normal TV size … yet.

LCD, or liquid crystal screen, has a liquid crystal layer (and thus the name) creates the image. However, this layer does not create a light. You can only manipulate it. The task of creating light falls, guessed it, rear lighting. This rear lighting can be a series of lamps arranged on the back of the TV, or built into the edges or TV frame. We dive into this more in our article How LCD TVs use mini -panels, double, and quantum points to take over OLEDBut to understand what makes this new Sony Tech interesting, all you need to understand is that there is a background with a group of lamps that create light, and a layer in front of it treats this light to form an image.

Backlight design

Blue LEDS, used in most rear lighting designs, provokes red and blue quantum points (the middle layer in this diagram). Then this RGB light is now processed by the LCD layer to create the image you see.

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The lamps in modern backlight are usually blue. This blue light not only creates all the blue light that you see, but when interacting with quantum points, it also creates red and green light. For the largest part, this can work well, and many offers using this method really looks good. There are some restrictions, which are aimed at the new backlight method to fix it.

R’s, G’s and B’s

RGB rear lighting

In the new Sony design, LEDS RGB rear lighting uses, which may provide more accurate control.

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Although RGB rear lighting has been implemented before, technology has advanced in ways to improve what was possible in those old versions. It is worth noting that this new technology is the alternative that the miniature leads. As its name suggests, the LED lights are smaller but more than the traditional LED rear lighting. More lamps allow better control in the rear lighting set and usually mean better image quality. Since the liquid crystal layer cannot completely prevent light, the backlight itself should become dark to create black. Less expensive models will not contain some “areas” that can be addressed individually. This can lead to prosperity. For example, street light images on a dark night. On OLED TV, the light is bright and the rest of the screen can be completely black. On the LCD LED in the budget, the light is bright, but it has a kind of aura around it where LED lights are bright but the content wants to be dark. With a lot of LEDS, there is more accurate control and lower opportunity for blossom. For more, check our article OLED vs. LED opposite Mini-LED against LCD: What is the best?

Sony is presented here is RGB Mini-ERIS, which is usually just one color, usually blue (more in this in a moment). By getting more separate control of brightness, but also the color, there is a possibility of a much better color size.

Who leads us to …

Color size

Color size

Take this with a grain of salt, as from Sony and trying to include the new technology of the company, but in theory, various technologies can perform in this way. The color schemes can be confusing at first glance, but the larger the cubes, the more brighter colors without losing saturation. What is the brightness of the deep red color? If a bright blue sky movie shows, what is its brightness while it is still deep blue? Sony says RGB’s rear lighting can do this better than blue or miniature LED or either OLED flavor.

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The game name here is “color size”. Basically, this is the amount of color that can be created at different brightness levels. The screen can be very bright, but it may sacrifice the color of the color to be bright. For example, imagine a person on a TV wearing a red shirt with a bright light on it. The TV that does not have a good color may display this shirt as a pink shades instead of the red color it was already.

Offers of all species have long been sacrificed for a long time for brightness. Their designers have often discovered that brightness sold more TVs more than color. These days, all TV devices are very bright, so you need to find ways to improve the quality of the image in other ways. Along with the right content, a better, more realistic and more vibrant TV can look more realistic and more vibrant.

Laws of color

The only light you need on TV is red, green and blue. In this marketing scheme, Sony emphasizes that it is able to produce more red, which is possible with other mini designs.

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Can this new competitor to technology in the field of OLED backlight in terms of the quality of the total image? Well, it will depend. It is likely to be brighter than OLED, as the TVs that are often mini -led Note. This is very bright, and the company is also a better color size. Since the rear lighting is still able to “stop” individual pixel units such as OLED, their variation in its variation will not be technically good. However, with enough areas and good treatment, both of whom Sony said it is working on it, it is possible that the difference with most content is difficult to distinguish between them.

This is all theoretical, of course. This is a new technology and we have not yet seen it in a real product. Sony has historically made some great TV devices. Sony has also historically made some expensive TVs. This may be the previous, but it will definitely be the last. Whether technology performance will justify its price, we will have to wait and see. Sony is also not the only one that works on RGB rear light for near. Samsung, Hisenesse and TCL are also technology versions. All technology versions have great potential, but of course we will have to see how they are actually implemented before we can determine which company that you did better.

Sony has not revealed its potential availability, but we are likely to see more in CES 2026, January.


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