Samsung unveils a television with revolutionary technology 📺

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The South Korean manufacturer Samsung showcased at CES 2025 a prototype 8K TV equipped with an innovative « RGB Micro LED » backlighting system. This major technological advancement promises more vibrant colors, better brightness, and reduced energy consumption.

The main LED screen technologies 🤔

Before diving into the heart of the matter, it’s important to revisit the different LED display technologies. There are several LED screen technologies, each with specific characteristics suited to various uses:

• Classic LED (SMD/COB): Mainly used for LCD screen backlighting, it is cost-effective but offers limited contrast.
• Mini LED: An intermediate technology between LED and Micro LED, providing better contrast and increased brightness, often used in high-end TVs and laptops.
• Micro LED: A self-emissive technology where each pixel produces its own light, delivering exceptional image quality but still costly and complex to manufacture.
• OLED: Based on self-emissive organic materials, it ensures perfect blacks and vivid colors, ideal for premium TVs and smartphones despite its high cost.
• QLED: An enhancement of classic LEDs with Quantum Dots, offering richer colors and better brightness while still relying on backlighting.
• AMOLED: An advanced version of OLED, providing more precise pixel management, primarily used in smartphone and smartwatch displays.

Each technology has its pros and cons in terms of image quality, cost, and applications. For its new TVs, Samsung has opted for Micro LED technology.

A first for RGB Micro LED backlighting 🌟

During the First Look event in Las Vegas, Samsung unveiled its major innovations for the year. Among them was a prototype 8K television measuring 98 inches, equipped with RGB Micro LED backlighting.

Unlike conventional Mini LED technologies, this system independently produces the three primary colors—red, green, and blue—via microscopic LEDs. This results in increased brightness and more intense colors. Moreover, this technology reduces energy consumption by 20%.

Rich colors and improved contrast 🎨

The shift from Mini LED to Micro LED allowed for a higher LED density and tripled their number. This translates to precise control over brightness and local dimming zones, enhancing contrast and color quality.

However, despite these advances, viewing angles remain inferior to those of OLED TVs, which remain unbeaten in this regard. Nevertheless, the new prototype shows significant improvement over traditional Mini LED models.

A technology still to be distinguished 🧐

The term « RGB Micro LED » can be confusing. Typically, Micro LED technology refers to screens where each diode emits its own light, like OLEDs. Here, the backlighting is simply optimized with RGB Micro LEDs. This distinction is essential to avoid confusion with Samsung’s « pure » Micro LED TVs, which are still very expensive.

A new era for high-end TVs 📺

Samsung plans to market this revolutionary model in 2025, with a flagship 98-inch 8K version accompanied by 75- and 85-inch variants. Although prices have not been announced, this TV will clearly target the premium segment.

This innovation marks a giant leap towards more performant TVs, aiming to deliver better visual quality while being environmentally friendly through reduced energy consumption.

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