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Hisense Brings New Color Tech to Its Top-End TVs at CES 2026

Its 2025 RGB MiniLED technology is also coming to more affordable and smaller models.

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CES 2026 is underway in Las Vegas, and we're seeing big announcements from some of the world's most popular TV manufacturers. Among them is Hisense, which has focused its next-gen TV improvements around color production.

The biggest announcement is the new RGB MiniLED evo technology set to debut in a new Hisense 116UXS model first. It produces a fourth color alongside the primary red, green, and blue used in RGB tech to help improve color fidelity—cyan, although Hisense calls it sky blue.

Hisense says cyan sits in the color spectrum “where human vision is most sensitive to subtle changes, and its addition allows the 116UXS to render gradients, tones, and transitions with a level of nuance that feels more natural and lifelike.”

The tech can deliver up to 110% of BT.2020 color coverage, Hisense says, allowing darker scenes to reveal smoother details, while brighter pictures can maintain better clarity. This is designed to work across everything you watch on TV, so you should get a richer picture, even outside of HDR content.

This model is the flagship TV, and we expect it to have a remarkably high price tag. The previous 116UX model cost $29,999.99 at launch. However, PCMag's Will Greenwald found it offered both the widest color gamut and brightest picture he'd ever measured on a TV.

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Last year's tech is also coming to more affordable and smaller models as part of the Hisense UR9 and UR8. Sizes will vary from 55-inch to 100-inch with other options in between, but we've yet to learn prices for these models.

"They’re engineered for real homes, preserving color integrity in bright rooms and maintaining stable, natural color during fast-paced sports, films, and gaming," Hisense says.

Back at the top of the brand’s lineup is a new 163-inch MicroLED TV called the Hisense 163MX. The big change here is a different color: it’s bringing a yellow sub-pixel, making the industry’s first RGBY MicroLED tech. Hisense says this fills the “critical spectral gap between 500 to 600nm,” where it says current MicroLED tech has fallen short. It also says it has advanced color management to help balance luminance and chromatic uniformity so the 163MX can achieve up to 100% of the BT.2020 color space.

Other TV announcements at CES 2026 so far include the LG W6 OLED, Amazon’s first lifestyle TV, and Samsung’s new Micro RGB line of TVs. Want to know more about Hisense's CES 2026 announcements? Watch the highlights of its Monday press conference in the video above.

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