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John Siracusa

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Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

But the point is, it's not like silicon chips where it's just TSMC and like a few other companies or whatever.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

But it's the companies that can make TV size panels in any kind of volume are small in number.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Everybody else uses those panels.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Sony uses them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Panasonic uses them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Obviously, Samsung uses them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

LG uses them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

TCL is one of those companies.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

TCL makes panels.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

They make LCD panels and they're building factories to make OLED ones.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

So Sony partnering with them makes some sense because like we weren't making our own panels anyway.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

And we're not we're not quite sure how to go forward in this business because just being at the high end is not giving us high enough volume.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

So we don't really have a low end story.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

So TCL, you have huge amounts of manufacturing.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

You take stuff over for us.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

So that's.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

that's kind of the shape of things here.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

It's still per pixel lighting versus not per pixel lighting.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

It's still, uh, companies taking panels made by other companies who are probably their competitors and packaging them into TVs with their own processing and everything.

Accidental Tech Podcast
676: A Sternly Worded Instruction

Um, and you know, Sony has been doing well there.