- 115 inches to begin with but more sizes are scheduled to arrive soon
- Available first in South Korea and then the US before a global rollout
- About $ 32,000 / £ 24,000 / € 28,000 / AU $ 49,750
Let’s start with the bad news: Samsung’s first micro-RGB TV is outrageously expensive. But the technique will quickly come to more affordable models and can be a significant rival for OLED.
The recently announced 115-inch Micro-RGB TV uses Samsung’s unusually small LEDs to deliver what Samsung says is “a new benchmark for color accuracy, contrast and immersive view in the ultra-premium TV segment.”
It is first launched in South Korea with a price tag of 44.9 million krw; It acts as approx. $ 32,000 / £ 24,000 / € 28,000 / AU $ 49,750. The US gets the TV next time, and it rolls out to more markets after that.
What is so good about Micro-RGB?
The display uses a micro-scale RGB-LED backlight, which includes individually controlled red, green and blue micro RGB LEDs, each less than 100 UM in size. This means that the TV can deliver much more accurate lighting than a traditional backlit LED -TV, which in turn means a more accurate and accurate color rendering.
The display is powered by Samsung’s Micro RGB AI engine, which analyzes each frame in real time and optimizes the color output; It can also improve dull tones and intelligently improve them to make them more vibrant and deepening – hopefully less dramatic than color optimization on my Samsung QLED, making scary things for people’s skin color.
The color output meets 100% of BT.2020, the global standard, and has been certified as “Micro RGB Precision Color” by the German electrical engineering institute VDE (Verder Elektrotechnik).
Although the TV will only be available as a 115-inch model at the launch, Samsung intends to quickly expand the range: it promises “a global rollout with a variety of sizes to meet customer needs” after the US launch.
