Yesterday I got the chance to see something critical in this year’s push to convince us all that “RGB” is the better TV tech – a side by side demonstration.
Now and then Samsung open their doors to a bit of a free-flowing discussion and demonstration that’s a bit deeper than the consumer TV launch stuff which really touches on what you’ll see in the JB HiFi catalogue.
Things like BT2020, Colour Gamut, HDR 10+ Advanced, graphs of how they handle peak brightness and just general TV nerdy stuff.
The most impressive thing I saw though, with the greatest of respect to all the other demonstrations – was a comparison between last year’s premium Neo QLED TV and this year’s premium Micro RGB TV the MR95F.
As we’ve explained before, “RGB” TV’s use Red, Green and Blue LED Lights behind the panel to light up the screen, instead of the Blue or White lights on traditional and Mini LED TVs.
I’ve been told this coloured backlighting means we will see more colours, more specifically a wider range of colours – more like what the human eye can see.
But put a bright colourful on your current TV and tell me what you’re missing. You won’t think you are!
However if you have the unique ability to put an older TV alongside a newer one, perhaps you’ll notice? Yes.
Photos DO NOT DO JUSTICE to what I saw with my eyes, but I do think you can notice what I broadly was able to see
On the left is last year’s Neo QLED. On the right the best of 2026.
It looks BRIGHT, it looks that way to the eye in real life too – kinda takes a moment to adjust. What you’re seeing isn’t excessive brightness, it’s a wider range of colour.
If you can consider the number of different “reds” that exist – then what you need to know is that your eye can see them all, but a screen can traditionally only show 45% of them, but MicroRGB takes that to 75% – and that was instantly obvious to me in this side by side.
I don’t expect that you can see what I’m trying to tell you, but what I want to convey is that there’s a genuine step forward in the representation and display of colour in these new generation RGB TVs.
That, I know for sure.
Trev is a Technology Commentator, Dad, Speaker and Rev Head.
He produces and hosts several popular podcasts, EFTM, Two Blokes Talking Tech, Two Blokes Talking Electric Cars, The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, and the Private Feed. He is the resident tech expert for Triple M on radio across Australia, and is the resident Tech Expert on Channel 9’s Today Show and appears regularly on 9 News, A Current Affair and Sky News Early Edition.
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