Today Sony is announcing the development of a new type of TV display that uses individual RGB LEDs for its backlighting. While Sony currently sells high-end Mini LED TVs alongside OLED models, this new system could combine many of the best qualities of both, and I recently got to see it in action at the company’s Tokyo headquarters.

Sony has announced its next-gen RGB mini-LED TV backlight tech, and from our eyes-on experience it looks like a winner.

According to FlatpanelsHD, the demo screen Sony showed off had 3,840 dimming zones. That's an increase over most existing mini-LED displays. Sony's current high-end 75-inch Bravia 9 TV has 2,800 dimming zones and the BenQ monitor mentioned above has 1,152 zones.

The new tech challenges OLED panels in some aspects. Sony just announced its new display tech that combines proprietary signal processing, individual

Sony announced today a new display system featuring an independent drive RGB LED with a high-density backlight. This setup allows red (R), green (G), and blue (B) lights to operate separately, delivering sharp color purity and a wide color gamut for vibrant images on large screens.

Sony Electronics Inc. today announced it has developed a new display system incorporating an independent drive RGB LED with a high-density LED backlight that can individually control three primary colors – R (red),