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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.
Dafuq are you on about, Sony's image processing and colour reproduction is one of if not the best in the entire display industry.
They were getting squeezed by Samsung and LG display for their OLED products so they just decided to engage in a joint venture with TCL that results in less costly manufacturing while leveraging the brand recognition and existing distribution channels. Basically TCL becomes an OEM. It's not ideal but if this was to be avoided, we should have detached from the US based order in the 80s when it became obvious the US doesn't like to compete and sniped the entire Japanese economy.
Sony's main tech was in manufacturing. TCL will be getting a HUGE upgrade.