This year, Hisense and TCL intend to release LCD TVs with RGB miniLED backlighting, and Samsung showed off its first LCD TV with RGB microLED backlighting at CES 2025, writes FlatpanelsHD.
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The Korean manufacturer demonstrated a unique panel the day before the start of CES 2025 during the Samsung First Look event. The exhibit was accompanied by the name RGB Micro LED, but Samsung has been selling microLED TVs for several years now, and this time the designation refers to the backlight, not the direct image output. And this is a new stage in the evolution of TVs, which follows miniLED backlighting.
At the exhibition, Samsung showed a 98-inch model with 8K resolution. So far this is a prototype that does not have an official name, but the company has stated that it intends to release a production version as early as 2025 – this will be a flagship 8K TV, which in addition to the 98-inch may have other screen sizes. The microLED backlight panel contains “at least three times” more LEDs compared to miniLED. This helps increase brightness, the number of dimming zones, improves energy efficiency and has a beneficial effect on image quality.
During the demo, Samsung clearly wanted to highlight that the RGB microLED backlight with VA LCD panel provides richer colors compared to traditional blue LED and quantum dot miniLED. And the company succeeded – some visitors to the exhibition mistook the TV for a pure microLED model.