Mini-LEDs and micro-LEDs may be the terms we know that sit behind the TV screens we look at, but Samsung is dabbling in a new tech, as “Micro RGB” becomes a thing.
It probably stands to reason that your next TV will be better than your last one, because that’s how technology goes. It’s the same with your phone and your computer, and probably your car, too.
Old technology isn’t quite as impressive as new technology, and whatever you buy often comes with improvements galore, particularly when there are years apart.
In the case of TVs, that’s more or less always true, and with the world’s newest TVs, the picture quality is likely where many of those improvements will be.
Better tech under the hood, longer lasting panels, and improved colour accuracy form a part, and Samsung’s latest screen could be a sign of what’s to come with improvements on the LED-backlighting side of things.
Samsung’s premium and flagship TVs have a new technology built to be a little better than the tiny white LEDs sitting behind a regular LCD TV known as Mini-LED.
Instead of single white LEDs, “Micro RGB” uses tiny red, green, and blue LEDS built to be less than 100 micrometres in size set up in position under large panels of a TV.
Distinct to Samsung’s other “micro” LED technology, think of Micro RGB as the colours that make up light in a TV — red, green, and blue — controlling the backlighting for every pixels on screen, and having AI optimise the frames of content in real-time to work with the tiny RGB lights to improve the colour.
Essentially Micro RGB is a more complex version of Mini LED, but with little coloured diodes to improve things. Samsung isn’t alone in this approach, however, with Hisense recently unveiling a similar approach to Mini-LED using red, green, and blue diodes, a technology Hisense calls RGB-MiniLED.
The two are similar, but not entirely the same, though they are pitched to the same style of TVs: big, flagship TVs, sold to folks who won’t question the cost. As such, this first Samsung Micro RGB model is a 115 inch TV, so we don’t expect it to necessarily be inexpensive.
In terms of when you can expect to find Micro RGB in Australia, right now the answer is not at the moment.
The first Samsung Micro RGB TVs in Australia are for Korea with the US to follow, while the rest of the world will arrive after that. If we had to guess, Australia will probably see these new TVs sometime in the new year, likely with the 2026 range of TVs or just after it.
