Samsung's Micro RGB Went From One $30,000 Television to a Range Starting at $1,599

Samsung put its 2026 Micro RGB televisions on sale in the United States in April 2026, opening at $1,599.99 for a 55 inch set, SamMobile reported on 14 April. Eight months earlier the technology existed as a single 115 inch product costing roughly twenty times that.

The 2026 range runs to two series. The R85H covers 55, 65, 75 and 85 inches at $1,599.99 to $3,999.99. The R95H covers 65, 75 and 85 inches at $3,199.99 to $6,499.99, according to pricing published by SamMobile and the trade site ecoustics. The first 115 inch model, the MR95F, stays on sale as a carryover at $29,999.99, and Samsung has said a 100 inch version will follow later in 2026.

Samsung released that 115 inch set in South Korea on 12 August 2025 at 44.9 million won, about US$32,000 at the time, as SamMobile and the Korea JoongAng Daily reported. The American price landed at $29,999.99.

The architecture sets the range apart from conventional LCD televisions. Samsung places individually controlled red, green and blue LEDs, each under 100 micrometres, in a fine pattern behind an LCD panel, rather than using white or blue LEDs behind colour filters. Samsung says the result covers 100 per cent of the BT.2020 colour space.

Samsung's own product material states that the VDE Testing and Certification Institute evaluated the MR95 series for a Micro RGB colour gamut ratio meeting or exceeding 100 per cent of BT.2020 measured in CIE u'v', under a test report valid until 8 July 2026.

That certification is the reason to read the new price list carefully. According to ecoustics, the Micro RGB Precision Color 100 certification applies to the R95H and not to the smaller models, native refresh rates differ across the range (165Hz on the R95H, 144Hz on the R85H, against a 120Hz base on the MR95F), and Samsung uses software dimming algorithms rather than hardware local dimming zones. A shopper reading Micro RGB on a $1,599 box is not buying the measured performance of the $29,999 one.

Samsung also went the other way. At CES on 5 January 2026 it unveiled a 130 inch Micro RGB set, which it calls the world's first at that size, with full BT.2020 coverage and a gallery style surround it names the Timeless Frame, according to Samsung's global newsroom and coverage by Forbes and Engadget.

Rivals have moved the same way, and quickly. Hisense brought a 116 inch RGB Mini LED flagship, the 116UXS, to CES 2026, and is pushing second generation RGB Mini LED down into its UR8 and UR9 series at 55 to 100 inches, Tom's Guide reported. UBI Research's CES 2026 analysis places LG and TCL in the same contest, all of them chasing wider colour by driving red, green and blue emitters directly rather than filtering white light.

One caution matters more now that the technology is affordable. This is not a self-emissive display. Light still passes through an LCD layer, so black levels remain a function of how precisely the backlight can be dimmed, not of pixels switching off entirely. Samsung's choice to handle dimming in software rather than in hardware zones is a design decision whose consequences will be settled by independent measurement, not by specification sheets.

Several things remain open. Samsung has not published pricing for the 100 inch model. The VDE test report cited in its own material was valid until 8 July 2026. And nobody yet knows how micrometre scale LEDs age across a decade of living room use, because no set has been in a living room for a decade.