Where I live, it's mostly the Korean brands on top and middle-tier, but for the working class they have an insane number of choices from Chinese makers, despite the quality.
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TCL TVs are fine for the price, but you use a TV with more processing power than whatever hamster wheel TCL uses and you get real lusty real fast. Painfully slow, unresponsive UI.
Dammit. I’ve had an LG plasma for the last 15, and it looks like I’ll have to get that Sony well before I’m ready for it.
It's like when IBM left its PC manufacturing to Lenovo. And, probably a ton of other examples I've never paid any attention to.
It's starting to feel like only old people look at a screen bigger than six inches. That, combined with displays becoming a commodity item, leads to the manufacturing being abandoned to commodity manufacturers. If Sony could bring anything of value that would justify the cost of holding on to this, they would. Sony's name hasn't been synonymous with quality for decades now, that's partly their own doing through poor choices, but also the quality of cheap displays is perfectly adequate for most people.
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Besides the paywall.
It doesn't sound to me that this is making Sony go away from a market, it just sounds like they'll still be involved.
Indeed, article makes it sound like both brands are putting their TV business into a new joint venture. Hardly the same as exiting the market.
I first read it as TLC. You mean the TVs will play nothing but low-grade reality shows?
Makes sense, bc idk anybody with a Sony TV anymore. Even loyalist fans friends of mine from the CRT days switched.
Ive got a Bravia. They're good like upper midrange TVs, like the top end before you really start spending crazy cash
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I do, and it's great. It isn't OLED, but the 4K panel is still decent. It has thin bezels, lots of inputs, and most importantly, it's just old enough to not run android. I'll take this thing to my grave.
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They started making shit TV's (for their price) is why. They kept charging premium prices, but their quality of buying a TV that wouldn't break like all the others dropped off a cliff.
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So… on the customer market only PlayStation needs to flop and Sony is gone forever
Those long lists are mostly full of everything but consumer electronics: semiconductors, gaming studios, movie studios, TV networks, music labels... heck even real estate is on there. So they kinda have a point when it comes to consumer electronics (which is what I think they meant with "customer market").
The current Sony has little to do with the one from the 80s, 90s or even early 2000s... In addition to the PlayStation they are strong in imaging (photo and video cameras) I think, but little else, and those products no longer have mass appeal (they are getting high-end- and pro-focused). Vaio, Xperia, Bravia, Walkman... gone or on life support. Browse their site and there's a handful of products left, as good as they might be (which I don't know).