Samsung’s wild micro-LED TV with screens on the side is like the ultimate version of The Frame TVs

Samsung's 140-inch micro-LED at CES 2026. showing the screen on the side of the TV panel as well as the front TV panel. An image of buildings in a city is on the screen, and one building can be seen on both the side and the front

(Image credit: Future)

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.

Samsung's 140-inch micro-LED at CES 2026. showing the screen on the side of the TV panel as well as the front TV panel. A night-time image of a city is shown, with brightly lit buildings spilling from the front onto the side screen — (Image credit: Future)

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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Matt is TechRadar’s Managing Editor for Entertainment, meaning he’s in charge of persuading our team of writers and reviewers to watch the latest TV shows and movies on gorgeous TVs and listen to fantastic speakers and headphones. It’s a tough task, as you can imagine. Matt has over a decade of experience in tech publishing, and previously ran the TV & audio coverage for our colleagues at T3.com, and before that he edited T3 magazine. During his career, he’s also contributed to places as varied as Creative Bloq, PC Gamer, PetsRadar, MacLife, and Edge. TV and movie nerdism is his speciality, and he goes to the cinema three times a week. He’s always happy to explain the virtues of Dolby Vision over a drink, but he might need to use props, like he’s explaining the offside rule.