Makes sense, bc idk anybody with a Sony TV anymore. Even loyalist fans friends of mine from the CRT days switched.

Honestly sounds like nothing is really changing except branding and maybe where panels are sourced from.

I avoid Sony purely because they push exclusives on consoles. Totally unrelated but I guess that's one of the negatives of being a big brand.

It's like when IBM left its PC manufacturing to Lenovo. And, probably a ton of other examples I've never paid any attention to.

It's starting to feel like only old people look at a screen bigger than six inches. That, combined with displays becoming a commodity item, leads to the manufacturing being abandoned to commodity manufacturers. If Sony could bring anything of value that would justify the cost of holding on to this, they would. Sony's name hasn't been synonymous with quality for decades now, that's partly their own doing through poor choices, but also the quality of cheap displays is perfectly adequate for most people.