In March 2026 Sony announced that it has developed a microLED RGB backlighted LCD technology, with plans to release the first such TV in 2026. The company now filed to trademark "True RGB", which is a good signal that it is indeed likely to reveal its first such TV soon.
Sony says that its new technology can enable brighter (up to 4,000 nits) displays with an increase color gamut and wider viewing angles. The company already demonstrated a 75-inch RGB LED LCD display that uses 96,000 LEDs to create 32,000 dimming zones. Each dimming zone is made from 3 LEDs (RGB), and the zones are controlled in clusters of 8, which in reality means there are only 8,000 different zones.
In August 2025, Samsung launched its own version of a similar display type, branding it as RGB MicroLED TV. The first model is a 115" 4K display, with a price tag of around $32,000. LG Electronics will also launch its own version of a microLED backlit LCD in early 2026.
Meanwhile, rugged and high-performance device maker TRIPLTEK launched the world's first tablet with a microLED backlit LCD.
