LG announces a 2026 release of its Micro RGB evo TV

In what is sure to be the start of a series of announcements, LG has confirmed that it will launch its first flagship RGB TV in 2026. It wasn’t a big secret, considering it’s a “premium LCD TV with Micro RGB technology.” It won the CES 2026 Innovation Award in November. But it’s now confirmed that the LG Micro RGB evo TV will be released in 2026 in 100-, 86- and 75-inch sizes, with US pricing to be announced at a later date.

The Micro RGB evo TV will use an upgraded version of LG’s Alpha 11 processor, which is usually reserved for the company’s high-end OLED displays like LG G5. The TV has been certified by Intertek – a testing and certification company – to achieve 100 percent gamut coverage of the BT.2020, DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB color gamut. There are no details on how bright the TV will be (I expect bright lights to easily outperform 5,000 nits).

CES – and 2026 in general – looks to be the year of RGB TV as more companies are likely to launch flagship models with the technology. It first started when Hisense debuted The 116-inch 116UX is in the CES 2025 showroomSamsung showed off its 115-inch Micro RGB TV, which was… Released last August. But I expect we’ll see more of them next January and in smaller sizes to compete with the new LG Micro RGB. (When I met Samsung in August to see its Micro RGB TV, a rep told me, “We have exciting things ahead for Micro RGB.”) At TCL Already showed two RGB TV models For the Chinese market, Sony will launch TrueRGB TV in early 2026.

It’s important to note that micro RGB is not microLED, which uses microscopic red, green, and blue LEDs per pixel. The RGB technology we see here from LG (and in other cases from Samsung, Hisense, and eventually Sony and TCL) uses red, green, and blue LEDs in groups that provide light to multiple pixels. It’s still incredibly small – hence the smallness in the name – and the three separate color LEDs provide improved gamut coverage and color purity, but the TV still requires a color filter to reproduce color correctly for each individual pixel. The LED screens we all use create a blue or white backlight.

The versions of RGB LED technology from Hisense and Samsung I’ve seen so far have been incredibly impressive, with strong, vibrant images better than anything currently on the market. But they were also huge TVs that cost tens of thousands of dollars, something most of us would never put in our homes. Now that every TV company seems to be releasing their own versions, and in smaller sizes, hopefully prices will drop to a more reasonable level.