Sony RGB display for TVs to enter production in 2025: features, expected launch timeline

Published On: 19 Mar, 2025

Sony has reportedly been developing RGB display technology for three years and finally announced it this week. Unlike current displays, such as the one on the Sony Bravia 9 flagship TV, this new display uses individual red, green, and blue (RGB) mini LEDs as the light source. Let’s learn its features and understand what’s special about this tech.

Sony RGB display: what’s new

Traditional LED and mini LED TVs use a white backlight that passes light through a colour filter to produce visuals on the screen.
So, the colour filter forms the different variations of red, green, and blue pixels required for a visual. And the backlight is required for passing light. The backlight can however bleed light through causing visual artifacts like blooming, halo, and compromised black levels.
In the new RGB display, instead of a white backlight, individual RGB LEDs as the light source. This is said to limit many of the aforementioned issues with backlighting.

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Potential RGB display features

Independent Red Green and Blue colour control could result in high color purity. Sony claims its RGB display can achieve over 99 percent of the DCI-P3 colour gamut and about 90 percent of the ITU-R BT.2020 standard.
It’s not just colours, the new Sony display will be able to individually control the brightness of each RGB LEDs.
Sony highlights benefits like better colour reproduction, black representation, and dynamic range.
Improved precision could mean better energy efficiency.
Sony RGB display can also offer wide viewing angles.

Sony RGB TV launch timeline

Sony says the RGB display will go into production this year.
The first Sony mini-LED TVs with RGB backlight are expected to arrive in 2026.
For context, the Bravia 9 (review) debuted in April 2024. Let’s see if the Sony RGB TV gets publically announced around that time next year.
Sony says it is also working on professional monitors with this tech.

When these RGB Sony TVs finally launch, we will know how they compare against current flagship Sony mini LED and OLED TVs. However, from what we know, the RGB display seems to have features that pit it against OLEDs. And since they use inorganic materials, RGB displays aren’t prone to burn-in. The technology is also reportedly scalable across different screen sizes.

It remains to be seen how Sony will price them compared to its existing high-end offerings. For reference, the Sony Bravia 9 starts at Rs 4,49,990 in India.

Just so you know, the Hisense 116-inch RGB-Mini LED TV is another TV with this tech. The other companies must also be working on it. We’ll keep you posted.