{"id":13100,"date":"2026-04-22T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/philips-on-rgb-mini-led-oled-is-still-better\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:10:24","slug":"philips-on-rgb-mini-led-oled-is-still-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/philips-on-rgb-mini-led-oled-is-still-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Philips on RGB Mini LED: &#8220;OLED is still better&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-8901e064-2ef3-4a7f-a790-460b24ed551d\">RGB Mini LED is the big plan for the TV industry in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it&#8217;s going to be the best or most popular display technology &#8211; but it&#8217;s the most marketed, with some brands even touting it as OLED&#8217;s killer.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-8901e064-2ef3-4a7f-a790-460b24ed551d-2\">Now I&#8217;ve seen a few RGB Mini LED TVs in action, and I&#8217;m still not convinced. The advantages of the main topic &#8211; high brightness and large color volume &#8211; are fairly clear, but they clearly do not exceed the main advantage of OLED: independent pixels.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">The article continues below <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"inline-block w-2.5 h-2.5 ml-2\" fill=\"currentColor\" preserveaspectratio=\"xMidYMid meet\" viewbox=\"0 0 1000 1000\"><path d=\"M1000 100L500 900 0 100h1000z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pb-0 pt-2 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold&#10;        \"><\/p>\n<p>            You might like it<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">As I recently reported, LG says &#8220;OLED is still king&#8221; &#8211; although given that its business is closely linked to the production of OLED panels, that is not really surprising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">More interesting is the view from Philips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Danny Tack, Senior Director of Product Strategy and Planning at Philips, which launched its RGB Mini LED TV this year, puts it plainly: &#8220;We think OLED is still better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s consistent with what I&#8217;ve seen so far &#8211; and Tack boils down the difference to one simple point:<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-H3xPtcP3gsK8bTThBwcHWZ\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-H3xPtcP3gsK8bTThBwcHWZ slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest hi-fi, home cinema and tech news, reviews, shopping advice and deals, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis [Philips\u2019 MLED981 RGB Mini LED TV] it has 11,520 areas, but OLED has 8.2 million areas &#8211; because each pixel is an area. [That means] we can still have a deeper, more accurate black.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nevertheless [the MLED981] very beautiful, well-tuned, and abundant [dimming] parts, there will still be, here and there, the danger of a halo, and the boundary of a shrinking place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is the essence of it. Even with thousands of dimming points, Mini LED still can&#8217;t match the pixel-level precision of OLED &#8211; so problems like blooming and imperfect blackness don&#8217;t disappear completely.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pb-0 pt-2 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold&#10;        \"><\/p>\n<p>            What you can read next<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Philips is a particularly useful voice in this debate because it produces TVs in all major technology panels. And Tack, in particular, has a reputation for prioritizing image quality above all else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">So why introduce RGB Mini LED TV at all?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Like LG, the answer is about size and price. As Tack explains, the MLED981 is aimed at &#8220;someone who wants a large screen size, good picture quality, and an affordable price &#8211; the larger the screen size, the more affordable Mini LED is over OLED.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Accordingly, Philips (at least at first) presents the MLED981 only as an 85-inch model &#8211; a size where OLED prices rise significantly and are not really accessible to most consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Mini LED also has two significant advantages: brightness and color capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can also say about the brightness of the full screen, Mini LED is better than OLED &#8211; 800 nits compared to OLED, which now reaches 450 nits &#8211; so under bright conditions, this may be a better offer,&#8221; said Tack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe colors [are also] more intense, but also, at an angle, compared to OLED, less. There is a lot of good and bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">In other words, RGB Mini LED has its place &#8211; especially if it&#8217;s the biggest, brightest, and most affordable TV you&#8217;re after.<\/p>\n<p>But in comparison, Philips&#8217; view is clear &#8211; and it&#8217;s one I share. Currently, OLED remains the benchmark for overall image quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Can an RGB Mini LED beat it? Maybe &#8211; maybe even this year. Sony, in particular, is talking a big game with its True RGB technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">For now, however, OLED is still the TV technology to beat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><strong>Here&#8217;s why I think <\/strong><strong>the Philips OLED951 could be the TV of the year<\/strong><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><strong>These are all <\/strong><strong>very good TVs<\/strong><strong>    you can buy right now<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RGB Mini LED is the big plan for the TV industry in 2026. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it&#8217;s going to be the best or most popular display technology &#8211; but it&#8217;s the most marketed, with some brands even touting it as OLED&#8217;s killer. Now I&#8217;ve seen a few RGB Mini LED TVs in action, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-audio-sound"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13100\/revisions\/13102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}