RGB TVs are a huge danger to OLED TVs — and that should be the best news OLED fans have heard in years

An illustration of RGB LED on the left, showing individual red, green, blue elements of an LED light; on the right, a TV showing a demonstration of the RGB backlighting and how it resembles the final image on a screen.

2026 is going to be the year of RGB TVs. The biggest TV makers have sets coming out using next-gen RGB backlight technology, which basically replaces the blue or white backlight of a traditional mini-LED LCD TV with one that has full RGB color support, meaning that these TVs are more efficient, offer richer and more accurate colors, and can suffer less light leakage into dark areas.

Obviously, we need to wait and see just how well these TVs perform in practice – but TechRadar's TV team has seen several of them in early demos, and they're incredibly impressive. Wide viewing angles (often an issue with LCD TVs), vibrant yet realistic colors, inky deep black tones, powerful HDR highlights… they look like a huge danger to the best OLED TVs.