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Matt Bolton

I finally saw Sony's next-gen RGB TV in action, and asked Sony's experts the burning questions about the OLED-bothering tech

A close-up of an RGB mini-LED unit from an RGB TV backlight, showing the individual red, green and blue sub-pixels.

At IFA 2025 I finally had a chance to see Sony's next-generation RGB mini-LED TV technology in action – my colleague Al Griffin managed to get his eyes on it previously, but I'd missed out until now.

This technology has a backlight behind a grid of pixels, like any LED LCD TV; but here, instead of the backlight being one color of LED, each element is made up of red, green and blue LEDs. This means the core colors of the picture are coming straight from the backlight itself, and so need much less color filtering than on most LCD TVs.

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