The crop of next-generation TVs arriving this year has more accurate colors than ever, thanks to a fancy new kind of backlighting. For how excellent they've come to look, today's televisions come with a brain-numbing assortment of acronyms for shoppers to parse. It's like the scariest dinner party I've ever attended. Remember LED, QLED, Mini LED, Micro LED, OLED, QD OLED? Sadly, all these acronyms do actually mean something, and this year's popular newcomer--RGB LED--implies shockingly accurate colors. Hiding behind upcoming panels from Hisense, Sony, Samsung, and LG announced at CES 2026, RGB LED (unhelpfully also called Micro RGB or RGB Mini LED) is the hot panel technology to talk about this year.

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It'll be Earth Day this weekend, and--while you should be mindful of our big blue marble every day--it's still the perfect time to do a little homework and figure out how to dispose of your old TV properly. Whether you've recently replaced your old LED TV with a newer set or have just had a boxy CRT gathering dust in your basement for years, there are much better ways to recycle or pass on these complex devices that have brought you hours of comfort and joy than dumping them unceremoniously on the sidewalk. Here are some options to consider before (or, hopefully, entirely in lieu of) simply throwing your old TV in the trash or on the curb. I save CRTs (tube TVs) from sidewalks all the time, and I've never once brought one home or to Reviewed's office and found that it didn't work. It's a little baffling that someone would take a perfectly functional TV and just toss it out, but it happens.

Samsung is making some of the most exciting TV news at the 2018 CES: The first consumer TV based on micro-LED technology (aka MicroLED, mLED, and µLED). You can think of the mLEDs in the 146-inch, 8K UHD (7680 by 4320 pixels) "The Wall" as significantly brighter, non-organic OLEDs that similarly provide their own individual, energy-efficient light source. Micro-LEDs eliminate the need for both a separate backlight and LCD shutters, so there should be little to no leakage of light in areas where you don't want it. In plain-speak, mLEDs should deliver vastly improved blacks while increasing the peak brightness of LED TVs. Actually, for the first time, LED TV (which was shorthand for LED backlit) won't be a misnomer.