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.

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.

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,