Samsung has launched its first Micro RGB TV with improved color accuracy

Samsung’s archetypal Micro RGB TV is initially lone disposable successful a 115-inch model. | Image: Samsung

First teased astatine CES 2025, Samsung has yet launched a TV featuring the company’s new Micro RGB backlight technology. The 115-inch TV is archetypal launching successful South Korea for implicit $32,000, according to SamMobile, but Samsung says it’s coming to the US next, followed by a wider planetary rollout with much size options.

Samsung’s Micro RGB exertion is being positioned arsenic an upgrade to Mini LED backlights that employment an array of tiny achromatic oregon bluish LEDs down a TV’s LCD panel. Micro RGB backlights alternatively usage an ultra-fine signifier of individually controlled red, greenish and bluish LEDs that are each little than than 100µm successful size.

The caller backlight is powered by Samsung’s Micro RGB AI engine, which the institution says “analyzes each framework successful existent clip and automatically optimizes colour output for a much lifelike and immersive picture.” The exertion allows for improved colour accuracy and amended opposition by precisely controlling the strength of the idiosyncratic LEDs, and Samsung says it tin adjacent boost the colour successful dull scenes, making them look much vivid and immersive.

The different large vantage of Micro RGB is that the exertion is cheaper to produce than MicroLED TVs. While Samsung’s archetypal 115-inch exemplary is launching astatine KRW 44.9 cardinal – oregon astir $32,362 – the institution besides presently sells a smaller 110-inch MicroLED TV successful the US for $150,000.

Other features of the caller 4K TV see a 144Hz adaptable refresh complaint for gaming, AI upscaling, HDR10+ support, a 70-watt 4.2.2 talker setup that supports Dolby Atmos, 4 HDMI 2.0 ports, a brace of USB-A ports, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. It tin besides relation arsenic a Matter controller, and if you usage Philips Hue lights, the TV tin sync their colour to what’s connected screen.

Samsung isn’t the lone institution pursuing this upgraded attack to Mini LED TVs. Earlier this year, The Verge got a demo of Sony’s awkwardly-named General RGB LED Backlight Technology, featuring backlight zones made up of red, green, and bluish LEDs. And astatine CES 2025, Hisense announced its 116-inch TriChroma LED TV, which besides features a backlight made up of idiosyncratic RGB LEDs controlled by a caller strategy the institution calls RGB Local Dimming Technology. But portion Hisense claims its TV tin reproduce 97 percent of the BT.2020 colour space, Samsung says its Micro RGB exertion is adjacent better, reproducing 100 percent and perchance making it 1 of the astir colour close TVs disposable to consumers.