RGB Mini-LED was the headline display technology of 2026, and with the review wave now landing, the picture is clearer. Hisense’s UR9 — the first mainstream television to reach shelves with the format — backlights its panel with individually tuned red, green and blue mini-LEDs rather than the white or blue LEDs of a conventional set, and the payoff is colour. Reviewers at Tom’s Guide and What Hi-Fi independently rate it among the most colourful TVs ever measured, with an anti-reflection coating that diffuses ambient light unusually well.
The caveats are just as consistent. Testers note that the colour depth and balance can be inconsistent, the gaming feature set is merely adequate next to the best, and at 4.5cm the cabinet is chunky by modern premium standards. The recurring verdict is admiration with an asterisk: very good, but not the OLED replacement the format’s billing implied.
Price has moved as fast as the reviews. The UR9 launched in April with a $3,500 sticker on the 65-inch model and ran up to $9,000 at 100 inches; within days the 65-inch fell to roughly $2,000, and it now sits at $1,999.99 at major retailers, in 65-, 75-, 85- and 100-inch sizes. That puts it squarely against high-end OLEDs rather than above them.
The takeaway is less about one set than the technology behind it. RGB Mini-LED delivers genuinely new colour headroom and excels in bright rooms, but its first mainstream outing trades blows with OLED rather than dethroning it — a promising debut with room to refine.