The very best TVs of CES 2026

CES serves a number of completely different functions — to offer us the sense of what’s to return in the course of the 12 months, to introduce unusual units, and for firms to point out off the latest know-how. Whereas there wasn’t as a lot of the primary as I had hoped, there positive was numerous the latter. TV producers delivered huge shows with extra subpixels, intriguing developments on present applied sciences, and the return of a classy and slim favourite.

First launched again in 2017, LG’s Wallpaper TV redefined what a slim TV might be. After a number of years away, the Wallpaper TV has returned with the W6. This new mannequin is simply 9 millimeters thick, has carved linear patterns round its perimeter for bolstered rigidity that appears trendy, and hangs flush in opposition to the wall. The TV makes use of the wi-fi Zero Join Field 2.0, so that you don’t have a bunch of cables out of your sources to the TV (there’s a skinny energy cable on the backside left of the TV, although). The field is 35 % smaller than its earlier iteration and helps 4K alerts as much as 165Hz on all its HDMI ports, making it the primary TV able to that.

The W6 makes use of LG’s Major RGB Tandem 2.0 panel and Hyper Radiant Colour Expertise. It ought to have a 20 % enhance in brightness over the G5, which I measured at over 2,400 nits. The W6 additionally has 12-bit coloration depth processing, which provides it extra headroom when receiving the 10-bit sign despatched from sources, inflicting fewer artifacts.

The principle TV focus of the present for TCL was on its X11L SQD-Mini LED (a lot so, that there weren’t any particulars revealed about its different TV traces). The TV makes use of blue LEDs — and never the RGB LEDs that the majority producers have been exhibiting at CES — and TCL says it’s able to an unbelievable 10,000 nits of brightness, has as much as 20,000 dimming zones, and covers 100% of the BT.2020 coloration gamut.

That is due to two developments TCL has made. The X11L is the one TV that makes use of reformulated quantum dots and an improved coloration filter developed by TCL CSOT (the corporate’s panel manufacturing division). Colour on the TV appears to be like spectacular, and due to all these dimming zones (and a few nice processing), the TV has glorious blooming management. This new innovation doesn’t come low cost, because the smallest measurement of 75 inches begins at $6,999.99, but it surely’s nonetheless an enormous step for mini LED.

Again in August of 2025, Samsung formally launched its first Micro RGB TV, and within the days main as much as CES introduced new sizes right down to 55 inches could be coming in 2026. However when the doorways opened at Samsung’s First Look occasion at CES, it was apparent they deliberate to impress. Attendees have been greeted by the 130-inch R95H Micro RGB TV — Samsung’s largest micro RGB show.

The TV has Samsung’s Timeless Body, which makes it appear like the TV is suspended in air inside the metallic body. The R95H is able to 100% of BT.2020, has a glare-free display, and helps HDR10+ Superior. However whereas it’s spectacular, the TV is simply a prototype, so don’t go making house in your lounge.

The corporate that began the entire RGB LED pattern that now each producer is part of, with the Hisense UX, has now upgraded it with the brand new 116-inch UXS. However what’s fascinating is that it’s not simply an RGB LED TV. It’s now an RGCB LED TV, as Hisense has added a cyan LED to the backlight of the UXS.

Hisense says there are a pair advantages to including the cyan LED. First, it helps clean the transition between blue and inexperienced, which could be inclined to paint crosstalk, affecting the colour purity. Plus, it additionally helps scale back the blue mild output within the vary that may trigger eyestrain and fatigue, in addition to have an effect on your circadian rhythms. The additional cyan LED additionally bumps up the BT.2020 protection of the UXS to 110 %.

LG’s flagship G6 has numerous similarities with the W6 Wallpaper TV talked about earlier. It additionally makes use of the Major RGB Tandem panel with Hyper Radiant Colour Expertise which ought to be 20 % brighter than final 12 months’s G5. LG has stated that the G6 could have deeper blacks than earlier than, and it has a mirrored image free know-how with lower than 0.5 good reflectance to maintain these blacks good and inky, regardless of the lighting situation.