TCL will take over Sony's home entertainment division, including Bravia TV line

[Win7User]

I seem to recall reading TCL is huge in the mini-LED panel making space, not just LCD. OLED is replaced by mini-LED in a lot of metrics.

Yeah, that changes what I said. What, a goof!

 

[Aus spot]

In 2019 221 million TVs were sold. In 2025 that number was 208 million, which was a 3.7% increase over 2024 and the first increase after three years of shrinking sales. Go take a look at statista. The trend over the last half decade has been a decline in sales.

Thanks, the website in question has a lot of paywalls when trying to find real data.

But citing from the same source. Coolest-gadgets/television (march 2025) came to the following (similar to many others)
By end of 2024 volume will be 253m with growth rate of 0.9%

Now of you are talking revenue, that has been pretty flat and expected to remain flat with a continuing slight decrease out to 2028.

By volume (and as stated) there were some ups and down from a high of 252.6m in 2023 to a low of 240.4 in 2022 back up to 250.7 in 2023 and rising slightly every year, then predicted continuation of slight rising to 2028.

Realistically sales are flat in a mature market, revenue is lowering slightly due to high competition. And people are getting more screen in their houses. (Which I said)

I also included other large screens in my comment which this data does not include. Being a member of techspot, I’m sure you are aware of the increase in monitor sizes and that they use similar technology.

So no, large screens are not dead.

 

[Gravitytr1]

Zenith, Motorola, Admiral, RCA were the huge television companies in the post WW2 era to the early 70's.
Then Sony, Panasonic, Sharp & a few others came along and pretty much took over the consumer television industry (USA) and the American brands disappeared.
How? CHEAP labor and in some cases superior devices. Now, most consumer electronics is coming from China, because of...CHEAP labor.
The labor isn't the only component. CEO's/labor/poor quality had a lot to do with it as well.
In non communist countries, most workers can start demanding higher wages and the cost to do business increases plus stockholders want higher returns on their investments. Thus, in America, a lot of things moved overseas, for cheaper labor. In China, it's hard for people to even THINK about asking for higher wages, which is why a lot of production of pretty much everything, shifted there in the 90's.

I'm not sure who told you what you think you know... But the moving of industries and production was a voluntary and intentional move by the US government, the most brazen of which was during the Bush era.

 

[Vilkas]

There are great dividends from all the data mining done by smart TVs that help lower the price.

 

[JohnGoogle]

Sony knows less and less people actually watch TVs. Getting rid of ageing fading out tech while it still worth something, wise move.

interesting take. I would think that now more than ever we are watching more TV since everything is streamed.

 

[Squid Surprise]

Sony knows less and less people actually watch TVs. Getting rid of ageing fading out tech while it still worth something, wise move.

I haven't seen any data to support this... "cable" TV is certainly down, but people are just using their screens for streaming instead... pretty sure screen time is just as high as it ever has been.