Samsung is expanding its Micro RGB TV lineup with a 130-inch ultra-large model in 2026, building on a display technology the company introduced as the world’s first of its kind — one that achieves 100% BT.2020, the International Telecommunication Union’s “ultimate color gamut” standard for television.
BT.2020 is the ITU’s color specification for ultra-high-definition content, covering a significantly wider range of colors than the BT.709 standard used in HD and most current 4K content. Reaching 100% of that target has historically been limited to professional reference monitors used in color-grading studios — not consumer televisions. The Micro RGB TV gets there through a different backlight architecture: instead of the blue LEDs used in standard QLED panels, which rely on quantum dots to shift light toward red and green, Micro RGB uses separate micro-size red, green, and blue LEDs for each zone of the backlight. Each color is generated directly rather than filtered, which is why the color accuracy is higher.
The TV won the CES 2026 Best of Innovation Award and was included on TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of the Year list. Samsung says the development required building the product category from scratch, without existing industry benchmarks to follow. “Because the mission was to create a category that didn’t previously exist, every department — from development to sales and marketing — had to work together with a shared sense of urgency and responsibility,” said Insang Hwang, a product planner in Samsung’s Visual Display Business Division.
The practical challenge with achieving professional-grade color in a consumer TV is that most streaming and broadcast content is not mastered to BT.2020. Samsung addresses this with Micro RGB Color Booster Pro, a feature that uses an on-device neural processing unit to analyze content in real time and lift color expression across everyday streaming, not just HDR-flagged material. AI Soccer Mode Pro detects soccer broadcasts automatically and specifically sharpens the greens of the pitch and the colors of team kits. A Glare Free anti-reflection coating keeps the wide color gamut readable in bright rooms, where reflections typically wash out a high-contrast panel. The 130-inch model adds Supersize Picture Enhancer, an AI picture-processing mode tuned for ultra-large screens where upscaling artifacts become more visible with size.
The 130-inch model is notable for what it competes against. Very large consumer screens are currently dominated by laser projectors — products from LG, Samsung’s own The Premiere line, and Hisense — which can fill a 100-to-150-inch space at lower cost than any flat-panel display. Micro RGB at 130 inches makes the case that a wall-mounted flat screen can now match projector size without trading away the brightness and color accuracy that projectors sacrifice in ambient light. OLED, the other premium display technology, faces technical limits on brightness at very large sizes. Samsung has not disclosed pricing for the 130-inch Micro RGB model.
via Samsung Newsroom
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