Hisense’s RGB LED Could Be the Future of Cheap Monitors

Hisense didn’t bring many TVs to CES 2025, but what made the trip could be a sign of the future of display technology.

116-inch RGB LED TV, called TV UX Trichroma TVthey use a new type of LED lights that can shake up the market. The system cannot turn every tiny pixel on or off OLED or MicroLEDbut it also offers impressive contrast along with incredible brightness, incredible accuracy, and other impressive benefits. The secret of its light is colors.

What is an RGB LED?

It’s all about backlighting. LED video screens combat light loss around bright objects in dark environments by using multiple dimming levels (called local dimming) and thousands of tiny LEDs. However, even the best LED TVs it will emit a clear glow (or crack) around bright images, while providing less contrast than light sources that provide black light like OLED and MicroLED, where each pixel is its own light source.

Unlike traditional LEDs, which produce white or blue light and then run color filters, Hisense’s new RGB LED array uses thousands of mirrors, each with red, green, and blue LEDs to produce “white colors directly at the source. ” According to Hissense, this results in “the largest color range ever found in a MiniLED display.” The TV is said to make up 97 percent of BT.2020’s viewing area, the highest quality available. Technology also offers other operational advantages.

Because its RGB panel generates colors on electricity, the RGB LED can be incredibly bright while providing excellent lighting control and significantly reducing bleed. Hisense calls this method “RGB local dimming,” as opposed to traditional LED dimming, where an LED TV’s backlight has sections of LEDs for better contrast but arguably bleed through.

In theory, and in the short time I had with the Trichroma TV at CES-Hisense’s RGB technology offers better black levels and better contrast along with a wider color gamut than current LED TVs, even giving OLED and MicroLED a run for their money.

RGB vs. OLED: The Brightness Wars of 2025

It’s hard to beat OLED TVs for picture quality right now. OLED’s combination of deep black levels, continuous contrast, better viewing, and wider colors helps great tv shows you can buy. However, for all its advantages, OLED has its limitations, for example, brightness that cannot be compared to the most powerful LED TVs.

This may sound confusing because the best OLED TVs are already quite bright. Models like Panasonic’s Z95A (9/10, WIRED Recommends), LG G4and Samsung’s S95D (8/10, WIRED Recommends) both get very close to 2,000 nits of brightness, surpassing the brightest LED TVs from just a few years ago. The 2025 update could push the latest models beyond 2,000 nit. In fact, the latest panels from Samsung and LG Display claim to be as bright as 4,000 nits in small windows (although this doesn’t seem to translate to reality).