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2026's TV jargon war is a mess, but I'm here to explain what these technical terms really mean
['Caroline Preece']
Pocket-lint
Samsung is selling Micro RGB, LG has Micro RGB evo, Hisense calls its version RGB Mini-LED, TCL sells both RGB Mini-LED and SQD Mini-LED, and Sony has trademarked True RGB for whatever it eventually launches.
The acronyms describe the backlight, not the pictureThree things doing one jobTwo things can happen inside a 2026 TV.
RGB mini-LED throws out the conversion step and uses separate red, green, and blue LEDs instead, which is why the case for RGB mini-LED over OLED rests on color rather than contrast.
It's a self-lit blue OLED panel with a quantum dot layer on top, and it's been on sale long enough to be properly understood, turning up in Samsung's S95H and Sony's Bravia 8 II.
Those two will tell you more about how a TV behaves than any backlight architecture can.