John Siracusa

Um, Sony is out there, uh, with its own sort of

Not particularly consistent idea of how to make a good TV because for a while they were selling essentially the best TV in the world for years and years.

But at a certain point, somebody decided this is not going to be our flagship TV, even though everyone keeps saying it's the best TV in the world.

How about we make this other TV our best TV?

Because we think it's better to have brighter TVs that are less expensive than there's less bright TV.

with the OLED stuff, and they would say, yeah, we still sell those OLEDs, and they're still pretty good.

This is the reason the A95L, which was their flagship, became the Bravia 8 II, which is not their flagship, even though it's still their best TV, because they wanted to sell LCD TVs with backlight regions on them because they could get brighter and they were cheaper.

And this is complicated by the fact that the only company in the world, I believe, that makes QD OLED screens is Samsung.

And the other big company in the world that makes OLED screens that are not QD OLED is LG.

And now they make the tandem OLED screens that don't have white subpixels in them.

And there's probably other OLED makers.

I'm not sure if they make them at TV size.

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

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

Everybody else uses those panels.

Sony uses them.

Panasonic uses them.

Obviously, Samsung uses them.

LG uses them.

TCL is one of those companies.