LG unveils its first Micro RGB TV ahead of CES 2026, and it's got OLED users feeling envy

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• LG has unveiled its caller Micro RGB evo, a TV featuring micro-RGB LEDs with next-generation colour accuracy.
• The TV is powered by a robust chipset with AI enhancements, providing the show with wide colour gamut enactment and good power implicit a 1000 dimming zones.
• A merchandise has not been given, but it volition beryllium disposable successful 3 sizes.

CES 2026 kicks disconnected connected January 6, and tech brands are already starting to preview their upcoming products. LG is 1 of the archetypal retired of the gate, unveiling its "first-ever flagship RGB TV" -- the LG Micro RGB evo. At the halfway of the caller show are micro-RGB LEDs, which the institution says utilize "OLED precision to power each of the... backlights," delivering exceptional colour accuracy.

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Achieving this level of show requires recently improved hardware and bundle moving successful tandem. Leading the complaint is LG's Dual AI Engine-based Alpha 11 Processor Gen 3 SoC (system connected a chip). As you tin astir apt already guess, this spot leverages artificial quality to heighten representation sharpness portion balancing colour output, resulting successful a much immersive viewing experience.

The hardware besides "enables Primary Color Ultra", allowing the LG TV to afloat enactment 3 antithetic colour gamuts: BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB.

The LG TV competes with Samsung's ain Micro RGB LED TV, which debuted astatine CES 2025.

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Complementing the processor is Micro Dimming Ultra, which manages implicit a 1000 dimming zones to nutrient precocious levels of contrast. The extremity effect is an representation that reveals "the intricate details successful some acheronian and agleam scenes". Other notable features for the LG Micro RGB evo (that we cognize of astatine the moment) see Voice ID, Sound Wizard, and an AI Search instrumentality to assistance customers find content.

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LG has not yet announced pricing oregon a circumstantial motorboat day for the Micro RGB evo TV, but the institution has confirmed that it volition beryllium disposable successful 3 surface sizes: 75 inches, 86 inches, and 100 inches.

It's besides worthy noting that Samsung bushed LG to the punch earlier this twelvemonth with its ain micro-RGB TV. ZDNET Managing Reviews Editor Kerry Wan saw Samsung's exemplary successful idiosyncratic backmost successful August and praised it for its striking colour output and beardown contrast. Wan adjacent remarked that the TV was bully capable to marque "OLED sets [look] airy successful comparison."

It's excessively aboriginal for maine to accidental precisely however LG's Micro RGB evo volition stack up astatine launch. Still, based connected what LG is promising, I deliberation it's just to expect thing special.