- Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 promises increased brightness for 2026 displays
- This is the next generation of the technology used in the LG G5 OLED TV
- LG’s OLED comes in two categories: Tandem WOLED and Tandem OLED
LG Display also makes the OLED panels for tons of the best OLED TVs and PC monitors, and that means any change to the panels will have a huge ripple effect. So a video teasing its 2026 technology and panels is exciting – as is a major rebrand that (sort of) adds simplicity to its naming conventions.
LG is rebranding its panels in the run-up to CES 2026, where it will showcase its latest generation of products. And the first part of the rebranding is to brand its panels for screens and TVs as ‘Tandem WOLED’. The W stands for ‘white’, referring to the extra white light sources that LG’s OLEDs used to increase brightness. ‘Tandem’ means that there are multiple layers of OLED pixels used in the panel.
The second part of the branding is to label OLEDs for medium-sized devices – laptops, tablets, in-car systems and so on – as ‘Tandem OLED’. These panels do not use an additional white element and have a structure of RGB sub-pixels on each layer – the ‘Tandem WOLED’ panels, on the other hand, only use one color pixel per layer. layer.
That’s not all. LG Display is also teasing multiple OLED panels and ‘Primary RGB Tandem 2.0’ technology, which seems to go against the simplicity of the rebranding, but will probably come under the ‘Tandem WOLED’ umbrella in general.
But the interesting thing isn’t the name – it’s what it’s likely to deliver. The first generation of Primary RGB Tandem panels are used in models like the LG G5 and Panasonic Z95B, as well as in some of the best gaming monitors, so it seems that a significant upgrade for their successors is imminent.
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According to FlatpanelsHD, Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 technology is expected to “push brightness beyond 2025”. And in a YouTube video showing “the next level of gaming: Tandem WOLED,” LG Display is teasing several large WOLEDs for gaming displays.
The video features a panel that has been rumored for some time, a curved 39-inch WOLED with a 5K 5120×2160 resolution. It appears to be more subtly curved than previous panels.
And it also shows a “high ppi” 27-inch Tandem WOLED, which FlatpanelsHD surmises to be UHD/4K based on its model number, 27U. That would put it directly up against Samsung Display’s 27-inch 4K QD-OLED. The video also shows off a previously announced panel, the 27Q, which is a 540Hz 1440p panel with dual-mode 720Hz.
However, the video doesn’t tell us much about the image quality improvements we can expect from the 2.0 version of the technology, which would be more relevant for TVs – the video claims up to 1,500 nits of maximum brightness, but that’s what the previous version also promised.
We’ll hear a lot more from LG Display – and everyone else in the TV industry – at CES 2026, which is just a few weeks away now. Meanwhile, LG has unveiled its new Micro RGB TVs, which make use of next-gen mini-LED backlighting.
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