Hisense didn’t convey many TVs to CES 2025, however what did make the journey might be an indication of the way forward for show know-how.
The model’s 116-inch RGB LED TV, dubbed the UX Trichroma TV, makes use of a brand new sort of LED lighting system with the potential to shake up the market. The system can’t flip every tiny pixel on or off like OLED or MicroLED, nevertheless it presents equally placing distinction alongside unbelievable brightness, improbable accuracy, and different intriguing advantages. The secret behind its brilliance is within the colours.
What Is RGB LED?
It’s all about backlighting. Traditional LED TVs fight gentle spillage round vibrant objects on darkish backgrounds by utilizing a number of dimming zones (known as native dimming) and 1000’s of more and more small LEDs. Yet, even the best LED TVs will produce some noticeable gentle bleed (or haloing) round vibrant pictures, whereas offering much less placing distinction than emissive gentle sources that present a wonderfully black backdrop like OLED and MicroLED, the place every pixel is its personal backlight.
Unlike conventional LEDs, which produce a white or blue gentle after which run that via coloration filters, Hisense’s new RGB LED panel makes use of 1000’s of optical lenses, every containing purple, inexperienced, and blue LEDs to supply “pure colors directly at the source.” According to Hisense, this ends in the “widest color gamut ever achieved in a MiniLED display.” The TV is claimed to supply 97 p.c of the BT.2020 coloration area, essentially the most expansive show coloration normal out there. The tech gives different efficiency benefits too.
Because its RGB panel produces colours on the gentle supply, RGB LED can get fantastically vibrant whereas providing enhanced backlight management and tremendously scale back gentle bleed. Hisense calls this system “RGB local dimming,” versus custom LED-based native dimming, the place the backlight of an LED TV consists of zones of LEDs for higher distinction however nonetheless inevitably has gentle bleed.
In principle—and within the temporary time I spent with the Trichroma TV at CES—Hisense’s RGB tech gives deeper black ranges and higher distinction alongside extra expansive colours than present LED TVs, even giving OLED and MicroLED a run for the cash.
RGB vs. OLED: The Brightness Wars of 2025
It’s arduous to beat OLED TVs for sheer image efficiency proper now. OLED’s mix of good black ranges, near-infinite distinction, wonderful off-axis viewing, and expansive colours powers the best TVs you should purchase. Yet for all its benefits, OLED has its limitations—particularly, brightness ranges that may’t match essentially the most potent LED TVs.
That may sound dismissive contemplating the very best OLED TVs are already searingly vibrant in a vacuum. Flagships like Panasonic’s Z95A (9/10, WIRED Recommends), LG’s G4, and Samsung’s S95D (8/10, WIRED Recommends) all get remarkably near 2,000 nits peak brightness, outshining the brightest LED TVs from only a few years again. An improve for 2025 might doubtlessly push the most recent fashions previous that 2,000 nit milestone. In reality, the most recent panels from Samsung and LG Display declare to get as vibrant as 4,000 nits in very small home windows (although this appears unlikely to translate in real-world content material).
