CES 2026 is flooded with RGB TVs, with major players such as LG, Samsung, TCL, and Hisense all showcasing their latest, colorful displays in Las Vegas. While Samsung and LG are just beginning their foray into RGB technology this year, Hisense has been ahead of the curve. It launched the first RGB model back in 2025. The company has now unveiled the next-generation RGB Mini-LED TV, the 116UXS, at CES 2026. This model builds on the older 116UX TV, which was released in 2025, and is available on Amazon.
As per Tom’s Guide, which has had a hands-on impression of the 116UXS, not only does the new screen promise more colors and improved energy efficiency, thanks to its advanced RGB Mini-LED backlighting, but it also aims to address the brand’s persistent challenges with red color fringing and upscaling performance.
The Hisense 116UXS features the brand’s new RGB Mini-LED Evo technology, which adds a fourth color, cyan, to the older RGB structure. The company suggests that this should make the TV’s color “more natural and lifelike,” with smoother details in shadows. Although the wildly psychedelic color palette in the computer-generated demo content for the 116-inch 116UXS at CES looked anything but realistic, “it was definitely rich and eye-catching,” Tech Radar points.
As per the company’s press release, this model covers “110% of the BT.2020 color space, with a peak brightness level of 5,000 nits from tens of thousands of color dimming zones.” To add to the list of features, the new 116UXS uses the Hisense Hi-View AI Engine RGB, and it supports Dolby Vision 2. It is said to have an almost bezelless design, and is relatively slim at 1.57 inches thick.
The TV also features an integrated 6.2.2 channel sound system from Devialet, compatible with Dolby Atmos. There is no word on the price or exact release date, but the TV is already being hailed as “Best in the CES” by many media outlets. “It’s a toss-up between the Hisense 116UXS and the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV, which claims the title of best TV at CES, “but I’ve got to give the nod to the Hisense,” Nick Pino of Tom’s Guide states.
CNET, on the other hand, is speculative about how Hisense’s cyan pixel would affect color reproduction, citing the reason that the addition of a fourth pixel could make color balance unnatural, with a classic case of Sharp Quattron LC46LE820X to testify, where the addition of a yellow pixel pushed some blues into cyan, making the color balance displeasing.
