TCL challenges RGB LED at CES
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LG’s OLED evo W6 Wallpaper TV makes a striking return at CES 2026, and this year’s version manages to blend design flair with high-end performance. The panel itself is an astonishing 9mm thick, designed to sit almost flush against a wall, and pairs with a Zero Connect Box that hosts all inputs and delivers wireless video feeds up to 10 meters away.
Mini-LED is an evolution of traditional LCD TV backlight tech, using thousands of tiny light-emitting diodes to improve picture quality. One of the first mini-LED TVs to become available was the 2019 TCL 8-Series, and it's a technology which has become more widely available with each passing year.
TCL's marketing of its entry-level RGB Mini LED television has come under closer industry scrutiny after market research firm Omdia said the product does not fully adopt the RGB backlight architecture implied by its branding.
Before talking about Micro RGB, let’s look at color space and gamut both for HDR, which uses the BT.2020 standard, and SDR, commonly associated with the REC.709 standard. REC.709 is ideal for regular HD content like TV broadcasts and YouTube videos. It can display a limited set of colors and brightness is generally capped at 100 nits.
Taking the RGB TV trend further, Hisense has added a fourth LED colour to its huge 116UXS to produce more lifelike images.
Mini LED backlight televisions are gaining momentum in China, with penetration rates exceeding 10%. These TVs have emerged as standout products under China's "trade-in" subsidy program, propelled by production cost reductions that have broadened their..
The global mini-LED display market size was US$ 34.4 million in 2021. The global mini-LED display market is forecast to grow to US$ 3104.1 million by 2030 by growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 88.1% during the forecast period from 2022 to 2030.
BOE introduced glass-based Mini LED video walls after acquiring a controlling stake in HC Semitek, while HKC achieved mass production of Mini LED video walls