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Micro RGB and the 9 mm wallpaper: the TV wall at CES 2027

The TV wall is getting weirder, and we are here for it. FUNN unboxed a “wallpaper” OLED back in 2018 because a TV you peel off the wall was the most future-shit thing we had seen. Eight years later the TV halls at CES are still the most fun square footage in Vegas, and 2026 handed the category a new buzzword: Micro RGB.

Micro RGB in one paragraph

A normal LED TV lights an LCD panel from behind with white or blue LEDs. Micro RGB replaces that backlight with a dense grid of tiny red, green and blue LEDs that each dim and color on their own. You get OLED-style contrast and much better color accuracy without an OLED panel’s brightness ceiling. It is still an LCD in front, which is why the purists sniff at it, but on the floor it looked incredible, and more importantly it looked incredible at 55 inches, not just 115.

Who showed what

  • Samsung went from a single 115-inch Micro RGB in 2025 to a full 2026 range: 55, 65, 75, 85, 100 and 115 inches. Its showpiece was a 130-inch Micro RGB concept hung on a gallery-style stand at its First Look event, which one report fairly called a showcase rather than a confirmed retail product.
  • LG answered with Micro RGB evo in 75, 86 and 100 inches; the 100-inch took a CES 2026 Innovation Award.
  • LG OLED also brought the OLED evo W6 “Wallpaper” at roughly 9 mm thick, with a separate box handling wireless video and inputs. Same idea as the one we unboxed, now with no cable to the screen.
  • TCL showed the X11L, an “SQD-Mini LED,” in 75, 85 and 98 inches, which is TCL’s own name for a similar quantum-dot-plus-dense-backlight approach.

The part that matters for a holographic magazine

Bigger and thinner is the obvious trend. The one we watch is brightness. Augmented reality content, the kind 4D VIEWR puts on your table, gets filmed and shown in rooms with the lights on. A screen that holds color at full daylight brightness is the screen that makes a hologram clip look like a hologram and not a dim ghost. Micro RGB’s whole pitch is exactly that, and it is why we think it ends up in more homes than the rollable and transparent concepts that get the headlines.

What we expect in January

  1. Micro RGB at normal prices. 2026 was the launch; 2027 is where a 65-inch has to cost what a good OLED costs.
  2. Wireless-box TVs from more than one brand. Nobody wants the HDMI cable snaking up the wall.
  3. Another transparent OLED demo that is beautiful and that nobody will buy. We will film it anyway.
  4. At least one brand quietly dropping the 8K pitch, because content never showed up.

And yes, we will ask every TV booth if their panel can play a 3D scene from a file. Someone should be first.

Sources (checked October 2026): Engadget: biggest TV announcements at CES 2026 · Tom’s Guide: Samsung vs LG Micro RGB · Business Standard: Samsung Micro RGB lineup · PCWorld · FUNN: Unboxing the Wallpaper TV (2018)

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