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The Vergecast · March 25, 2026 · 55m
Sony, TCL, and the Future of the TV Industry
Sony's partnership with TCL and what it means for the TV industry as hardware margins collapse and software becomes the primary revenue model.
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Canon
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The smart TV home screen is an environment that shapes viewing behavior: what appears on the home screen is what gets watched. TV manufacturers are becoming environment designers.
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Pierce traces the biography of TV companies from hardware manufacturers to platform operators to data companies, showing how each transformation was driven by margin collapse in the previous business model.
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