The present invention relates to a method of displaying a colour video image in a sequential colour display panel. The video frame is divided into a plurality of consecutive time segments each assigned to a given colour component, and the video level of the pixels of the image is displayed by modulating the display time of the corresponding cells. The invention aims to propose a display method that reduces the blurring effect without causing colour break-up. According to the invention, at least one reference time segment is defined in said plurality of time segments, and the image is displayedgiving priority to lighting the cells during the reference time segment and the time segments closest to the reference time segment. The present invention is applied to LCOS, OLED and DMD sequentialcolour display panels.