The humble LED TV is evolving, and quick. If you had asked me 10 years ago what the future of TV technology was, I would have said OLED, hands down. That still might be the case — but what I certainly did not anticipate was the LED putting up such a fight. So what’s next for the LED TV? Well, it could be Micro-LED, or it could be the new TriChroma LED display tech that Hisense showed off at CES 2025. Or, it could be both all at once.
First, let's clear up some confusion about terminology. TriChroma LED is essentially how Hisense is marketing its RGB local dimming technology, which itself is built on Mini-LED tech. Just because it has those three magic letters, however, doesn’t mean it’s the same thing as Panasonic’s new “Primary RGB tandem OLED” panel, which itself is very similar to the new LG four-stack OLED tech. On the contrary, the Hisense TriChroma LED tech is, for now, totally unique to the new 116-inch 116UX TV. The TriChroma Mini-LED tech is also a little different from the TriChroma “laser TV” tech that Hisense uses in its laser projectors.
