TV trends expected from CES 2026

As every year, several new TVs are expected to be unveiled at CES. Unlike previous years, the major TV brands seem to have fairly similar ideas about how to innovate. In short, everyone and their mothers are releasing an RGB TV, and CES 2026 is setting the stage for a direct head-to-head comparison between Samsung, LG, Hisense, and more . Overall, there's a decent amount of variety in each brand's new TVs: in 2025, LG's main focus was expanding its best-in-class OLED TVs, TCL worked hard on mini-LED, and Samsung's claim to fame was a Neo QLED version of the Frame. Of course, there will be no shortage of new OLEDs and QLEDs in 2026. But the suddenly crowded RGB TV market is easily the most important plot point. Did you know that most backlight bulbs for QLED or mini-LED TVs only emit white or blue light? It's definitely not visible to the viewer. It's actually a layer of quantum dot crystals sandwiched on top that reflects white or blue light in all the colors displayed on the TV screen. RGB works a bit differently in the TV's backend. "RGB" refers to the thousands of microscopic red, green, and blue LEDs that illuminate the TV; these true red, green, and blue light sources are said to cover 100 percent of the color gamut (or the entire spectrum of visible colors) and greatly expand the TV's color accuracy.