Panasonic & Sony no longer make televisions. The same as happened with Toshiba, Sharp etc.
The 4 brands mentioned are now built by 3rd parties. Toshiba is Turkish IIRC.
Panasonic & Sony TVs are Chinese - they get Royalties for the use of the name.
Shame really as I have bought Panasonic & Sony for the last 35/40 years. No repairs , just replaced to get a bit of newer technology.
I believe the leading lights in TVs today are LG & Samsung.
Current Panasonic is 11 years old - bought to get UHD footie when Sky started 4K. SWMBO is quite happy the Panasonic so no new LG OLED for me unless one of my boys give me a new TV for an upcoming "Notable Birthday"
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Built in obsolescence new
Built in obsolescence new