LG announces the 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. This was no big secret, considering that “a premium LCD TV with Micro RGB technology” won an innovation award at CES 2026 in November. But it is now certain 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 later.

The Micro RGB evo TV will use an upgraded version of LG’s Alpha 11 processor, usually reserved for the company’s high-end OLED displays like the LG G5. The TV has been certified by Intertek – a testing and certification company – to achieve 100% coverage of BT.2020, DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB color gamuts. No details on TV brightness (I expect highlights to easily eclipse 5,000 nits).

CES – and 2026 in general – appears to be the year of the RGB TV, as more companies are likely to release flagship models with the technology. It all started when Hisense launched the 116-inch 116UX at the CES 2025 show, and Samsung showed off its 115-inch Micro RGB TV, released last August. But I expect that come January we’ll see more of them and in smaller sizes to compete with the new LG Micro RGB. (When I met with Samsung in August to see its Micro RGB TV, a representative told me, “We have some exciting things coming for Micro RGB.”) TCL has already introduced two models of RGB TVs for the Chinese market, and Sony will launch its TrueRGB TV in early 2026.

It’s important to note that micro RGB technology is not microLED, which uses microscopic red, green, and blue LEDs for each pixel. The RGB technology we see here from LG (and in other cases from Samsung, Hisense, and possibly Sony and TCL) uses red, green, and blue LEDs in clusters that deliver light to multiple pixels. They’re still incredibly small – hence the micro in the name – and the three discrete colored LEDs offer improved gamut coverage and color purity, but the TV still requires a color filter to correctly produce the color of each individual pixel. The LED screens we all use are used to create a blue or white backlight.

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