If you followed our CES 2026 coverage, you probably heard about a new technology coming this year called RGB Mini-LED or MicroRGB. Every company has a different name for it, but they all work by shrinking the size of red-, green- and blue-colored LEDs in the backlight of an LCD TV (hence the name).
The benefit of these shrunk-down LEDs, as it was explained to me at CES, is better color saturation — and early testing results have been promising — but it turns out that the truth is more complicated.
