"Sadly, all these acronyms do actually mean something, and this year's popular newcomer-RGB LED-implies shockingly accurate colors. Hiding behind upcoming panels from Hisense, Sony, Samsung, and LG announced at CES 2026, RGB LED (unhelpfully also called Micro RGB or RGB Mini LED) is the hot panel technology to talk about this year. I just wish they'd call it "Supercolor," or something folks could actually remember."
"Quantum dots help colors appear better on the latest LED TVs (often called QLED). Tech like multi-zone LED (and more recently mini-LED) backlighting uses thousands of tiny white LEDs illuminate specific sections of the screen from behind. OLED ("organic LED") TVs, introduced by LG a little over a decade ago, do something similar but more accurately, with each pixel acting as its own backlight."
Modern televisions rely on backlighting and color representation to define picture quality. Edge-lit LED designs produced grayish blacks, which multi-zone and mini-LED backlighting has improved by using thousands of localized white LEDs. Quantum dots enhance color reproduction on LED sets. OLED displays give each pixel self-emissive control for deeper blacks. RGB LED backlighting allows illumination arrays to emit red, green, or blue light, enabling much more accurate colors and potentially higher overall brightness than OLED. Major manufacturers including Hisense, Sony, Samsung, and LG unveiled RGB LED panels at CES 2026 under names like Micro RGB or RGB Mini LED.
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