LG's $3,600 RGB LED TV loses on value to cheaper rivals and OLEDs

At the start of Blade Runner 2049, the corners of Sapper Morton's living room and kitchen sit in near-black shadow. On LG's 75-inch MRGB95B, The Verge's reviewer found that detail difficult to see ^[1][10].

The thing being pitched is a backlight. RGB LED sets light the panel with zones of individual red, green and blue LEDs. Conventional sets use white or blue LEDs and depend on a colour filter or quantum dots to produce colour ^[14]. Because the RGB backlight already makes the colour each part of the image needs, the filter does less work, and the set can show brighter colour and more of it ^[14]. On that promise the LG delivers. It covers all of the P3 gamut used for films and nearly 90 percent of the larger BT.2020 space ^[5], and it holds an image in a sunlit living room ^[4].

LG's branding adds a second pitch. LG and Samsung call the technology Micro RGB, while other makers say Mini RGB ^[15]. Their LEDs are reportedly smaller, though neither company has confirmed the size, and The Verge says smaller LEDs do not directly translate into more zones or better performance than Mini RGB ^[15].

The thing being done is watching television through a whole day, including the evening hours when the lamps come on ^[8]. The reviewer lived with the set that way and did adapt: after a few days the blue cast became familiar, though it stayed noticeable ^[16]. The verdict held anyway. "A $3,600 TV in 2026 shouldn't have the inaccuracies on the MRGB95B," the reviewer wrote ^[7].

In our view the MRGB95B is for a narrow buyer: a household that watches mostly in daylight in a bright room and can live with a cool colour cast. The tradeoff comes in the same purchase, because that household still owns the screen after dark.

To place yourself, put room light on one axis, with daylight at one end and lamps at the other. Put content on the second axis, with bright HDR at one end and dark films with subtitles at the other. Bright HDR in daylight is the cell this set was built for ^[4]. Dark films watched in daylight run into the shadow-detail and blooming problems ^[10][9]. Anything watched under lamps meets the reflective coating ^[8]. A buyer who spends most viewing hours outside that first cell is, on this review's evidence, better served by an OLED ^[12].