Samsung’s Micro RGB know-how is being positioned as an improve to Mini LED backlights that make use of an array of tiny white or blue LEDs behind a TV’s LCD panel. Micro RGB backlights as a substitute use an ultra-fine sample of individually managed purple, inexperienced and blue LEDs which can be every lower than than 100µm in measurement.
The brand new backlight is powered by Samsung’s Micro RGB AI engine, which the corporate says “analyzes every body in actual time and mechanically optimizes coloration output for a extra lifelike and immersive image.” The know-how permits for improved coloration accuracy and higher distinction by exactly controlling the depth of the person LEDs, and Samsung says it might even increase the colour in boring scenes, making them seem extra vivid and immersive.
The opposite large benefit of Micro RGB is that the know-how is cheaper to provide than MicroLED TVs. Whereas Samsung’s first 115-inch mannequin is launching at KRW 44.9 million – or round $32,362 – the corporate additionally at present sells a smaller 110-inch MicroLED TV within the US for $150,000.
Different options of the brand new 4K TV embrace a 144Hz variable refresh price for gaming, AI upscaling, HDR10+ help, a 70-watt 4.2.2 speaker setup that helps Dolby Atmos, 4 HDMI 2.0 ports, a pair of USB-A ports, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. It may possibly additionally perform as a Matter controller, and in the event you use Philips Hue lights, the TV can sync their coloration to what’s on display screen.
Samsung isn’t the one firm pursuing this upgraded method to Mini LED TVs. Earlier this 12 months, The Verge bought a demo of Sony’s awkwardly-named Basic RGB LED Backlight Expertise, that includes backlight zones made up of purple, inexperienced, and blue LEDs. And at CES 2025, Hisense introduced its 116-inch TriChroma LED TV, which additionally encompasses a backlight made up of particular person RGB LEDs managed by a brand new system the corporate calls RGB Native Dimming Expertise. However whereas Hisense claims its TV can reproduce 97 % of the BT.2020 coloration area, Samsung says its Micro RGB know-how is even higher, reproducing 100% and doubtlessly making it probably the most coloration correct TVs obtainable to customers.