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.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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I avoid Sony purely because they push exclusives on consoles. Totally unrelated but I guess that's one of the negatives of being a big brand.
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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.
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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.
Dafuq are you on about, Sony's image processing and colour reproduction is one of if not the best in the entire display industry.
They were getting squeezed by Samsung and LG display for their OLED products so they just decided to engage in a joint venture with TCL that results in less costly manufacturing while leveraging the brand recognition and existing distribution channels. Basically TCL becomes an OEM. It's not ideal but if this was to be avoided, we should have detached from the US based order in the 80s when it became obvious the US doesn't like to compete and sniped the entire Japanese economy.
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This is good news as far as I’m concerned. I was burned by an expensive Bravia TV with a lack of promised feature support, poor quality control, zero customer support, and unfixable hardware design flaws that made several prominent features permanently unusable.
TCL on the other hand might have always been a budget brand, but their TVs are very well made considering their price point. They are much more competently made TVs with a level of quality control that blows Sony out of the water. If they commit to making the Bravia series at its current price point, as opposed to just turning the Bravia line into budget TVs, I’m reasonably confident they can deliver.
Sony has always been shit at supporting their TV line. I certainly don't slthink this means things will get any worse per se. Maybe some hope for improvement.
Makes sense, bc idk anybody with a Sony TV anymore. Even loyalist fans friends of mine from the CRT days switched.
I own a sony TV. The hdtvtest guy is my goto for staying updated on TV tech and sony regularly comes out as his best of the year. Yes, they're pricey but you're getting something for that premium.
This is a sad day in my books now that TCL will be able to enshittify the Sony brand.
I also have a Sony TV and watch Vincent on HDTVtest.
The TCL news is shocking. Time will tell but it doesn’t seem good to me.
When 4k/120 TVs came out, their Bravia was the best midrange you could get. Price doubled to get anything better.
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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.
Ive got a Bravia. They're good like upper midrange TVs, like the top end before you really start spending crazy cash
I'm not meaning nobody owns them, just a lot of the people I knew back in the day who were die-hard Sony fans, have moved on due to price or quality or both. My dad was one of them with a full high end Sony TV (36" CRT Trinitron series) and receiver, dual cassette deck, CD player, etc lol. Yes, this was the 90s, but still.
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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My TCL has been going strong for 8 years now. I’ll stand behind supporting That Cheap Life.
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).