LED TVs are about to get a lot better. As demonstrated by Hisense and to some extent Samsung at CES 2025, a new backlight technology called RGB LED is poised to improve the quality and efficiency of TVs that use LED backlights and LCD panels to work their magic.

Korean OLED TVs, long considered the gold standard for premium television, are facing growing competition from Chinese and Japanese manufacturers as they roll out next-generation RGB LED TVs. At CES 2025,

Today Sony is announcing the development of a new type of TV display that uses individual RGB LEDs for its backlighting. While Sony currently sells high-end Mini LED TVs alongside OLED models, this new system could combine many of the best qualities of both, and I recently got to see it in action at the company’s Tokyo headquarters.

Sony's new take on an old idea could lead to TVs with better, brighter color. Here's why it could be cool. Sony says it's developing a new backlight tech for LCD TVs, using RBG LEDs. "But wait, aren't all backlights RGB LEDs?

Sony has been demoing a new type of TV it calls General RGB LED Backlight Technology. The name is terrible, but the technology is very cool. It effectively replaces the existing blue LEDs in a mini-LED TV with RGB LEDs.