The battle for your TV dollar is probably going to be bigger in 2026 than any year before, with so much investment going into new TV technologies that the whole industry is excited about. Namely – RGB. This week I sat fixated in front of Samsung’s mega 115-inch Micro RGB TV, and the minute my butt hit the couch, I knew it was going to be good.

Size matters, and I’m not making the joke everyone makes there; I really mean it – sitting in front of a 65-inch TV is a vastly different viewing experience to a bigger TV. However, at $41,999 – this 115-inch model from Samsung is not going to be on your shopping list – I get that.

Hear me out though, there are two things you need to know right now – you, like all people, would prefer a bigger TV. Samsung’s own research shows that regret is a real issue. People get their shiny new TV home and think “I could have got a bigger one”. With BIG TVs now becoming more and more budget-manageable, and retail stores now offering desktop installation on the biggest of them, you really have to consider it.

My advice, take the measurements for any TV, and use painter’s tape to mark out its size on the wall. Then sit back and take it in. For the record, this beast is 2.56m wide, and 1.47m tall. It’s big.

But, this TV is just an example of a new technology, so let’s leave that lust for size aside for a minute and look at what this TV represents. The Future.

Samsung do, and still will sell QLED TVs; they also have OLED TVs, which any TV reviewer will tell you is the technology to be looking for. However, OLED is pricey, and when you get into this big, big-sized TVs, it’s eye-wateringly expensive.

So what I chose to do when reviewing this TV was consider the upcoming launch of a 65-inch model of this same TV, the MR95F. I understand that Samsung will also have a model range below this which will pair back some features and go down to 55 inches. I’m looking here at the premium Micro RGB offering – no matter the size.

Bright Aussie Lounge Rooms – Sorted.

I think Samsung would love for me to spend the vast bulk of my review and observation time analysing the colour output of this new Micro RGB technology, but I’ve gotta tell you – even while the experts and Samsung were giving me the rundown on what’s what and how it works, I was fixated on the TV – not the picture, even though the temptress of Drive to Survive was showing. No, I was fixated on the glare – or lack thereof.

Samsung, and others, have been dabbling in a matte-look, anti-glare screen technology for a few years. But it’s only being put on premium TVs – which is fine, I guess it costs more.

But this year, Samsung’s MR95 Micro RGB range has a “UL-certified Glare-free technology”. They throw numbers around like “certified to 1.5%-2.1%” – but I’ve no real idea what that means. Comparatively, other non-certified displays reflect around 13.9%.

The “grey” area to the right of the screen in the top third is the glare from a bright open window

Basically, these screens mean that if you have a lamp behind you when watching TV, instead of seeing the bulb in all its crisp, well-lit style as part of your TV picture, you get a blurred area of light. The better the anti-glare, the more diffused that light is, and the less distracting it is.

In this example, Samsung had this TV placed with a lounge a few metres back, then a huge bright window behind me even further. This natural sun on a bright morning would normally have reflected as the view of that window in a mirror. And again, Samsung has research saying that people are legitimately giving up on shows if the reflection is too bad – perhaps waiting for the sun to go down, or lights to be off.

For me, in my position on the couch, the reflection was on the right of the screen, towards the top. Now on a black screen – I could see it, but it didn’t seem like a reflection, instead it was like a glow within the screen.

But the diffusion makes it barely noticeable when there’s actually something on the screen, during all the full-colour action of Drive to Survive – didn’t even know it was there. I wasn’t even tempted to close the curtains.

Outstanding. Frankly, if it’s the choice of being with or without glare reduction, I’d take it every time.

As I understand it, the second Micro RGB range from Samsung will not feature this coating – we’ll have to wait and see the comparative price difference.

Colour, give me more colour!

OK, OK, OK. It’s bright!

But in reality, I think all TVs are bright, and it’s the same with colour. I’ve never left a session watching a movie or TV show thinking “wow, that colour seemed washed out and unnatural”. However, for the astute eye and the filmmaking narks, this is a leap forward in colour reproduction.

Each of the Red, Green and Blue Micro subpixels is able to produce 134 million distinct shades of colour. Combine those together and I think – if my maths is correct, that means potentially over two trillion colour shades. But, I’ll leave all that to someone smarter than me.

Here’s what I noticed. Blooming – minimal. No, it’s not OLED levels, but it was utterly minimal.

I also felt a stronger punch to the colours themselves within any show – but again, without a similar-sized TV next to this one to directly compare to – how can you judge?

And that’s the critical thing for you, when you’re at the retail store. Remember, there won’t be another TV beside this one.

We have to trust the numbers, and the numbers here are impressive – in simple human terms, Samsung say that this TV can accurately produce 75% of the colours that the human eye can see. That’s up from the 45% on a traditional Mini LED TV.

Contrast

The real battle for any TV that is not OLED is achieving that ultimate in contrast between the blacks and colours across the screen. Over many years, TV manufacturers have tried so many things to bring traditional “LED” TV’s closer to what OLED achieves.

Let’s remember OLED obtains the ultimate in contrast because every single pixel is self-illuminating. On LEDs, you have this LED light shining through the pixels, often lighting up many more than one or two, in fact, a whole zone. To minimise this, we moved to larger arrays of light to achieve that, and even Mini LED, while a smaller, more direct light, is still far larger than the pixels it shines through.

We don’t know how many Mini LEDs are behind this screen; we also don’t know, therefore, how many RGB sub-pixels there are. Safe to say, there are less of them than there are pixels – far less.

But blooming was minimal, and thanks to the Micro RGB coloured backlight, the colours at any point of the screen were rich and vibrant. I think I can safely say that the Micro RGB technology in this Samsung MR95F model is the best contrast ratio I’ve seen other than OLED.

That said, it could easily be the case on any RGB technology – only when we get competing RGB technologies side by side will we really know who’s best. Even then, to be frank, I come back to my earlier statement about what you see at home.

One TV, One picture, no direct comparison.

I can’t imagine any viewer being disappointed in this TV.

Design and Mounting

Again, noting that the MR95F is Samsung’s premium model range of Micro RGB, one clear factor of choice with that and their second-tier model will be the design. While not utterly “thin,” it’s remarkable how thin this is – something like 35mm. It’s a premium-looking metal edge, and if you opt for a leg-based mounting on an entertainment unit, the legs are a sleek, not obtrusive look.

Importantly, there are two mounting positions for the legs. One spot on the outer edge – as seen here in this review, and another much further in for smaller entertainment units.

Wall-mounted, this thing would look impressive, no doubt, and if you were honestly spending $41,999 on a TV – how are you not shelling out for wall-mounting?

Overall

Looking at this TV for what it represents, which is the flagship of a broader model range, I’m super keen to see how the pricing stacks up for the smaller versions of this. The 65-inch MR95F will be able to be directly compared with a huge range of different TV technologies. If a 65-inch OLED is roughly $4500, and a decent Mini LED is between $2,000 and $2700, I think this needs to sit at the mid to high $2,000 point. But I suspect it might have a “3” in front of the price. New tech and all that.

I’m not the best at guessing prices, so let’s just hold on for a few weeks and see how it all shakes down.

One thing’s for sure, in 2026 and beyond, if you’re in the market for a new TV and can’t stump up for an OLED, the next best to put on your list is RGB, and what Samsung is presenting in this space is compelling.

Going to take a lotto win for this 115-inch beast to be my TV though 🙂