TCL Overtakes LG To Become Second-largest Premium TV Brand (techspot.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/03/05/0027211/tcl-overtakes-lg-to-become-second-largest-premium-tv-brand
- Source link: https://www.techspot.com/news/107012-tcl-premium-tv-shipments-more-than-double-year.html
> The two companies' shipment figures have gone in opposite directions since Q4 2023, when LG held a 26% share and TCL was on 12%. Samsung remains the leader when it comes to premium TVs. Its share dropped from 41% to 29% year-on-year, but it's still comfortably ahead of second-place TCL. Chinese brands are showing impressive growth in this market. Hisense also saw its shipment share rise, from 10% in 2023 to 16% in Q4 2024.
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> Counterpoint writes that it classifies QD-MiniLED, QD-LCD, NanoCell, LCD 8K, QD-OLED, WOLED, and MicroLED TVs as premium TV models. The segment grew 51% YoY to reach a record high in the fourth quarter, with full year shipments up 38%. In terms of global shipments (i.e., not just the premium sector), TCL overtook LG in 2022, with Hisense doing the same a year later. Samsung also leads this area, though its share is only 2 percentage points higher than TCL's.
[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/107012-tcl-premium-tv-shipments-more-than-double-year.html
[2] https://slashdot.org/~jjslash
[3] https://www.displaysupplychain.com/report/quarterly-advanced-tv-shipment-report
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I think LG left that legacy behind awhile back. Keep in mind until recently all OLED TVs (the opposite of "bottom-rate" TVs) were using panels made by LG.
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IIRC, Lucky was a chemical company while Goldstar was the electronics and components division that combined into a conglomerate like Korean companies tend to do. Goldstar wasn't in and of itself necessarily a "mark of the beast" absolute junk tier company. It's just that once they made it to the world market as something other than the underlying OEM badged as some other legacy prestige brand, their name was on things like VCRs when DVDs were starting to give way to Bluray. This is precisely why they had to
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Goldstar stuff absolutely was disposable crap.
I've owned a bunch of LG stuff over the years, and I hated most of it, but I have a 43" 4K LG TV right now. This TV is not too bad, although I've heard that this generation of TV got stuffed with ads you cannot turn off by an update. I have never connected it to any network. The panel is OK. It has a sharp light dropoff around the last couple of edge pixels though, and the interface is horribly laggy and the menu interface is needlessly deep and irritating. It u
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Being Fair I recall Back in the 80's Both Goldstar and Samsung as names of TVs you bought at a Osco Drugs But than again at that time so was Samsung as a Child i bought a Samsung BT-307MR 12 from a drug store.
"premium" (Score:2)
Another AI article....???
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AIstroturfing, when you're so cheap you can't even pay for influencers to carpet bomb us with bullshit. I've never even heard of TCL, but looking at the nationality of the brand... yeah, it's bullshit.
You keep using that word (Score:2)
I don't think it means what you think it means.
TCL = Premium? (Score:3)
When I clicked this article there were no comments on here yet. The reason my comment is 5th on here is I needed over an hour to stop laughing at the assertion that TCL is a premium brand.
Premium? (Score:2)
Premium? Id's say "creamium".
Whoa (Score:4, Insightful)
Didn't realize TCL had premium TVs. Only ever seen junk with their brand on it.
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Came here to say the same thing. I assume they have a different line from the [1]$500 75" TVs you can get at Walmart? [walmart.com]
[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/TCL-75-Class-4-Series-4K-UHD-HDR-Smart-Roku-TV-75S451/822836388
Re: Whoa (Score:2)
Most TVs are junk. My next "TV" will be a large computer monitor.