When I visited Samsung‘s big showcase at CES 2026, the company showed off a couple of interesting concepts for the future – TVs that aren’t necessarily going on sale, but that might if interest is strong enough, because they’re essentially fully formed products.
One of them was the 130-inch Micro RGB TV that already impressed me with its cool frame design and super-rich images, and the other was a 140-inch micro-LED TV with no bezel at all. In fact, the display simply runs over onto the side of the TV, so it’s all screen until it hits the wall.
The whole thing naturally made me think of Samsung’s phones with the curved ‘Edge panels’, where the old screen curved down at the side of the phone and could be used for notifications or shortcuts, debuting on the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge over a decade ago.
This time, we’re not talking curved OLED, though – micro-LED is tipped to be one of the next big things in TV tech, and Samsung has been pushing it forward for years. It works like OLED, in that the pixels emit their own light and color, but can theoretically get much brighter than OLED, with no risk of burn-in.
Micro-LED is particularly suited to this kind of design, because it works really well in modular panels that can be stitched together into larger panels – in fact, that’s how nearly every micro-LED TV you’ve seen works. So adding panels on the side that link right into the panel on the front is easier here than with other screen tech.
The problem is that micro-LED remains extremely expensive to produce, and manufacturers have struggled to change that in the five years since its introduction – and Hisense recently told me that we’re still between five and eight years from it becoming mainstream.
But when Samsung is ready for it, this would definitely be a fun way to introduce micro-LED – especially with Samsung Art Mode on, mimicking The Frame models, as I mentioned earlier. Though it may need to be a little smaller than 140 inches.
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