Sony and TCL sign a nonbinding deal to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a joint venture, split 51% TCL and 49% Sony, by the end of March
The two companies are planning to form a new joint venture that will carry the ‘Sony’ and ‘Bravia’ branding.
Google plans to integrate Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos and modify family photos, first on TCL TVs
You'll also be able to ask for custom ‘deep dives’ on subjects, complete with narration and interactive elements.
Google adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025
but it'll cost you Elias Saba / AFTVnews : Google begins rolling out Gemini AI to Google TVs starting today NDTV Profit : Google TV Users Can Now Use Gemini To Get Movie Recommendations, Recaps And Id...
LG Display agrees to sell its stake in its large LCD display plant in China to TCL's LCD unit CSOT for ~$1.54B; LG will now no longer make LCD panels in China
focus moves to OLED TechNode : LG Display sells its Guangzhou LCD panel plant to TCL for $1.54 billion Rasmus Larsen / FlatpanelsHD : LG Display closes chapter on LCD TV panels, sells last plant to TC...
Source: Google and Amazon struck a deal in recent months that lets Amazon work with manufacturers like TCL, which also makes Android TVs and phones, and Xiaomi
Source: Google and Amazon struck a deal in recent months that lets Amazon work with manufacturers like TCL, which also makes Android TVs and phones
Last week, the Competition Commission of India published a damning report, alleging that Google was preventing major TV manufacturers from adopting Amazon's Fire TV operating system.
TCL says it sells 10M+ TVs with Android TV and Google TV each year; in May 2021, Google said 80M+ accounts were using Android TV OS
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Tweets: @lukebk and @scottporch Tweets: Luke Bouma / @lukebk : WOW 10M+ Google/Android TVs sold! Likely mostly outside of the US. I wonder how many Roku TVs they sell I bet ...
TCL unveils second-gen NxtWear Air wearable secondary display with two 1080p OLED screens, no AR/VR features, and lighter design, coming in Q1 with pricing TBC
They're 30 percent lighter and come with swappable magnetic front plates — TCL is preparing to launch a second iteration …
TCL resumes selling its Google TVs after recently pulling the entire lineup from Best Buy and rolling out software updates to fix performance issues
Chris Welch / The Verge :
TCL pulls its entire Google TV lineup from Best Buy over software and performance issues
Google TV's plans to expand in the smart TV market are taking a hit this week, as TCL's entire Google TV lineup has been pulled from Best Buy over performance-related issues.