By television

• LG OLED C6 and G6: what they ship with and what can come off

  The 2026 OLED sets on webOS 26. No ADB here either. The C6 moves up a processor and loses a USB port, and this year LG publishes no nits at all.

• Tesla and Vivax: what they ship with and what comes off

  The Balkan Tesla does not build cars: it is a brand of the Comtrade group, of Belgrade. Vivax belongs to M SAN Grupa, of Croatia. Neither has a single platform of its own.

• TCL: the same TV under several names

  Forty-one fields out of forty-three, identical. The only thing that changes between two TCL televisions is the name box, and the price on the shelf.

• TCL S5K, S4K and C655: what they ship with and what comes off

  One TV whose page title says Fire TV and Android TV at once, another with no EU energy record at all, and eight years of updates TCL never mentions.

• TCL QM8B, MQLED80 and T7B: what they ship with and what comes off

  Two names for a set that matches field by field, and almost the only memory figure TCL publishes in its catalogue: 3 GB. The rest is what it does not say.

• TCL Q6C and Q7C: what they ship with and what can come off

  The same television changes panel, watts and even energy class depending on which country's official spec sheet you read. And its 144 Hz is 120 in the regulated one.

• Samsung The Frame and The Serif: what they ship with and what comes off

  The set most people buy for reasons that are not technical, read against its regulated fiche: one fast HDMI out of four, 40W and class G.

• Panasonic W95B, W85B, W61A and W60A: what they ship with and what comes off

  The new range and the entry range. Fire TV on top, with a package list and ADB. TiVo below, which is not Android. And five systems in the same shop window.

• Metz and COOCAA: what they ship with and what comes off

  Three separate websites, one legal notice: the same Zirndorf company, the same commercial register number and the same four directors.

• LG QNED 9M, 92A and 85B: what they ship with and what can come off

  The top of the QNED range, 2025 and 2026. No ADB here either. And the most expensive set is the one with the fewest HDMI ports.

• Grundig and Beko: what they ship with and what comes off

  A single company signs all 306 EPREL records held by the two brands. And since 1 January 2026 Grundig has been licensed to Changhong: the group's own report says so, in a footnote.

• Finlux, Luxor and Regal: what they ship with and what comes off

  Europe's biggest television group does not put its name on the shop floor. Of 1,518 EPREL entries downloaded, 1,195 are signed by six companies in that one group.

• Aiwa, Daewoo and Akai: what they ship with and what comes off

  Three Japanese and Korean names with decades of history, today licences: 50 directory entries and not one platform of their own between them.

• ZTE and SEI Robotics: the same box under nine logos

  209 boxes, 109 brands, 168 platforms. Nine brands on four continents hand out the same device with their own name on it, and none of them says who built it.

• NVIDIA SHIELD TV and SHIELD TV Pro: what they ship with and what comes off

  Seventy pages on this site say support runs out after three years. This is the one that says the opposite, and it says it with dates too.

• Mecool, Skyworth and RockTek: what they ship with and what comes off

  Six platforms in the directory, and Skyworth and Mecool are on all six. If the box is the same, what decides the purchase is memory, price and who answers.

• Cheap HDMI sticks: what they ship with and what comes off

  A thirty-euro stick is not one device: it is thirteen, with memory from 1 GB to 4 GB. With the figure in front of you, some fix the TV and some repeat it.

• Toshiba MG8F and XA9D: what they ship with and what can come off

  Toshiba's top range in Spain is two series running two different systems. And a television sold as OLED whose own spec sheet declares a DLED panel.

• TD Systems, Engel and Nevir: what they ship with and what comes off

  All three sell by the truckload in Spain and almost nobody looks inside them. Download their catalogues and four operating systems turn up, none of them the one their own sites still advertise.

• Sony BRAVIA 2 II, X75WL and X80L: what they ship with and what comes off

  The bottom of Sony's catalogue, the part that sells most and that nobody writes about. With an awkward detail: the 2026 model ships with less than the 2023 one.

• Sharp JP7, HP5 and HP6: what they ship with and what can come off

  The first European Sharp with local dimming, and a sister range where the eARC is no longer on the port the brand's other models left it on.

• Samsung Q60D and Q6F: what they ship with and what comes off

  The best-selling QLED, with both fiches side by side: what it really adds over a Crystal UHD, and where the newer set goes backwards.

• Samsung DU7000 and DU8000: what they ship with and what comes off

  The floor of Samsung's catalogue: three HDMI ports, 20 W of sound, no brightness figure at all, and a system with no ADB and nothing to uninstall.

• Panasonic W80A and MX800: what they ship with and what can come off

  The affordable Panasonics that also switch on into Amazon's store. The system comes down intact from the Z95A; the port split does not. Worth knowing before you plug anything in.

• OK. and PEAQ: what they ship with and what comes off

  A shop brand has no factory. What you buy is somebody else's set with the shop's badge on it, and the directory proves it without taking anyone's word.

• LG OLED B5 and UHD UA: what they ship with and what can come off

  LG's affordable end on webOS 25. No ADB here either. And the old question (B5 or C5) finally answered with both LG tables side by side.

• Kivi and Strong: what they ship with and what comes off

  A Ukrainian brand built in Shenzhen and registered in Budapest, and a French one owned by Skyworth since 2015. Neither sells anything at kivi.tv or strong.tv.

• Hitachi, Sanyo and Schneider: what they ship with and what comes off

  Three names with ninety years of history and not one platform of their own. Sanyo's fit inside Hitachi's, and Hitachi's fit inside Schneider's.

• Haier and Candy: what they ship with and what comes off

  Seven trade names on one platform, three platforms it shares with nobody, and a manufacturer with an address. Haier is the mirror image of JVC.

• External players: what they ship with and what comes off

  On a TV the question is what you can remove. On a player it is a different one: whether it is worth buying. Two figures answer it, memory and years of support.

• Essentiel B, Continental Edison and Edenwood: what they ship with and what comes off

  Three of France's best-selling televisions carry the name of the shop that sells them. None of the three has a single platform of its own, and one is not even owned by the chain everybody assumes.

• CHiQ and Changhong: what they ship with and what comes off

  The chiq.eu domain is for sale, the warranty is signed by a Czech company, and Google's directory gives CHiQ two platforms it shares with nobody. The brand mentions none of the three.

• Nokia and Thomson with Google TV: which models exist and what comes off

  Eighty-one Thomson models and five Nokia ones with Google TV, all sharing the same blank box in the European register: the guaranteed years of updates.

• Samsung Q7F and Q8F: what they ship with and what comes off

  Samsung's 2025 mid-range: three HDMI ports instead of four, 60 Hz instead of 165, and a system with no ADB and nothing to uninstall.

• LG QNED 80A and 87A: what they ship with and what can come off

  LG's mid-range on webOS 25. No ADB here either, but there is a trap: the same series holds two televisions with nothing in common.

• JVC, Blaupunkt and Hyundai: what they ship with and what comes off

  439 TV brands, 222 platforms and 401 brands without one of their own. Comparing a JVC with a Blaupunkt can mean comparing the same set twice.

• Grundig and Telefunken: what they ship with and what comes off

  One belongs to Beko and sells no televisions at all on its German site. The other builds nothing: it licenses the name. Neither publishes the memory.

• Samsung QN90F and S95F: what they ship with and what can come off

  A Neo QLED and an OLED from 2025 with four HDMI ports that all run fast, no Dolby Vision, and a system with no ADB and nothing to uninstall.

• Panasonic Z95A and W90A: what they ship with and what can come off

  Panasonic's flagship OLED and its Full Array LED sibling. Same processor, the same four HDR formats, the same port split and the same Amazon store on switch-on.

• LG OLED C5 and G5: what they ship with and what can come off

  Two 2025 OLEDs running webOS 25. No ADB, no package list: what does come off is Live Plus. And their four HDMI really are four fast ports.

• Hisense U8Q and U7Q PRO: what they ship with and what comes off

  The U8Q is the higher model and declares one HDMI fewer than the U7Q PRO. And at 75 inches the cheap one gets a VA panel and the dear one, ADS.

• Hisense S7 Canvas and UXQ: what they ship with and what comes off

  A 55-inch canvas television and a 116-inch machine. Both are bought for what they physically are, and both ship with the most locked-down platform around.

• Hisense E8Q and E8: what they ship with and what can come off

  Mini LED with real dimming zones, a promo block promising a Wi-Fi the table contradicts, and three of the maker's own spec sheets published blank.

• TCL S5L: what it ships with and what can come off

  In a range where everything else is 4K with Google TV, this one stops at Full HD and the older interface. And TCL never says so: you have to deduce it.

• Sony BRAVIA 7 and 9: what they ship with and what can come off

  Sony's two Mini LED sets for 2024, with the same software and the same back-to-front port layout. And a microphone switch that is not in the same place on both.

• Hisense UR8 and UR9: what they ship with and what can come off

  The most expensive sets in the Hisense catalogue, and the most locked down. With one oddity in the sheet: the UR8 claims more zones than the UR9 where they overlap.

• Hisense U7Q and U7E: what they ship with and what comes off

  Two Mini LED sets that look like twins in the shop and are not in the table: the U7E declares about half again the peak brightness at every size.

• Hisense E7Q and E7: what they ship with and what can come off

  Twenty-four models without a single line about how much memory they carry, and five of the maker's own pages that contradict themselves on the one spec that matters.

• Hisense A4, A5, A6 and A7: what they ship with and what comes off

  Four ranges that look like the same television in different sizes. Between the A5 and the A6 the size is not what changes: the kind of set does.

• Xiaomi TV S Mini LED 2026: what it ships with and what comes off

  The 55, 65 and 75-inch sets run at 60 Hz with 2 GB of RAM and Wi-Fi 5. The 85 and 98 run at 144 Hz with 3 GB and Wi-Fi 6. One name, two televisions.

• Xiaomi TV F and F Pro 2026: what they ship with and what can come off

  Xiaomi's 2026 sets do not run Google TV, they run Fire TV. And between the F and the F Pro the processor and memory do not change: the brightness does.

• Xiaomi TV A Pro 2026: what it ships with, what comes off, and why the 32 is a different set

  Within one range, the inch count usually changes only the size. Not here: the 32-inch A Pro has another resolution, another memory, other HDMI and another system.

• TCL RM7L and RM9L: what they ship with and what can come off

  Up to 16,848 colour zones and a claimed 9,000 nits. And a renamed spec field that is worth understanding before you buy.

• Philips OLED820 and OLED850: what they ship with and what comes off

  Two OLEDs with Google TV on Android 14 and three-sided Ambilight. And a warning first: below the OLED810 the system is Titan OS and none of this applies.

• Xiaomi TV S Pro Mini LED 2026: what it ships with and what comes off

  408 zones, 1,700 nits of peak brightness and 144 Hz for 3 GB of RAM. And three HDMI ports in total, of which eARC takes one of the two fast ones.

• Xiaomi FX and X Mini LED: what they ship with and what can come off

  Same panel cell, same processor, same wi-fi chip, same speakers. One letter apart in the name, and two different operating systems.

• Toshiba UF3F: what it ships with and what can come off

  An entry-level Fire TV whose spec sheet claims a brightness of 250, 275 or 300 without saying of what. And three HDMI ports, with eARC taking one of them.

• TCL P6L, P7L and P8L: what they ship with and what can come off

  Three series that look like the same range. One has native 144 Hz, another never reaches Dolby Vision, and between the first and the last lies a gulf of colour.

• TCL C8L and X11L: what they ship with and what can come off

  Up to 20,736 zones and 10,000 claimed nits. And two of TCL's own pages whose headline announces a brightness its spec sheet does not agree with.

• TCL C7L: what it ships with and what can come off

  A Mini LED with 3,000 nits and 2,176 zones whose own maker does not publish how many HDMI ports it has, how much memory it carries, or how many watts it sounds.

• Sony BRAVIA 8 II: what it ships with and what can come off

  Sony's QD-OLED for 2025, with the sound coming out of the panel itself. And a spec sheet that declares Android 12 on one side of the Atlantic and nothing on the other.

• Sharp GR8: what it ships with and what can come off

  Sharp is one of the few makers that publishes on its official sheet which apps come installed. Here is that list, and what to do with it.

• Philips OLED950 and OLED910: what they ship with and what can come off

  Two OLEDs with four-sided Ambilight and Google TV on Android 14. Four HDMI ports, of which only two run, and the eARC takes one of those two.

• Metz televisions with Google TV: what they ship with and what comes off

  Metz publishes brightness inch by inch, which is rare. But its 144 Hz only appear in the marketing copy, never in the specification table.

• Amazon's own televisions: what they ship with and what can come off

  Amazon publishes the RAM, the processor and the Android version of its televisions. No other manufacturer does. And what you read there is revealing.

• Sony BRAVIA 8: what it ships with and what can come off

  An OLED whose sound comes out of the screen itself, with Google TV on top. And four HDMI ports of which Sony itself makes clear that only two are quick.

• Sharp FQ5 and FQ8: what they ship with and what can come off

  Two names for the same television, with 144 Hz that are genuinely real and four ports labelled HDMI 2.1 of which only two actually run.

• Cecotec A4 and V4: what they ship with and what can come off

  The same product page says "Android TV 11" in one paragraph and "Google TV" in another. When the maker cannot make up its mind, all that is left is to ask the machine.

• Toshiba UF3D and QF5D: what they ship with and what can come off

  Two Fire TV sets that share everything but the panel. And one figure their maker publishes on no spec sheet at all: how much memory they carry inside.

• TCL P7K: what it ships with and what can come off

  An entry-level QLED with Google TV, a 60 Hz panel and a «120 Hz game accelerator» that only works at 1080p. Worth knowing before you plug the console in.

• TCL P6K: what it ships with and what can come off

  An entry-level 4K set with Google TV, 2 GB of memory and 16 GB of space. And official spec sheets that contradict each other depending on where you read them.

• Thomson and Nokia on Google TV: what to do with an orphaned television

  The company that put these brands on European televisions went under in April 2026. There will be no more updates. Here, clearing out stops being an option and becomes the way.

• Xiaomi TV A 2025: what it ships with and what can come off

  One name for five very different televisions, all of them with 8 GB of storage. Cleaning up here is not a matter of taste: it is what keeps the machine alive.

• TCL C8K: what it ships with and what can come off

  Over four thousand measured nits, 1,680 zones and Bang & Olufsen sound. And on top of that, an Android 12 that was not new in 2025, in a set built for ten years.

• Sony BRAVIA 5: what it ships with and what can come off

  Sony's Mini LED for 2025, with Google TV on top of Android 12. It ships with fewer additions than its rivals, and half the home screen still is not yours.

• Philips OLED810: what it ships with and what can come off

  An OLED with Google TV on Android 14 and Ambilight. And a trap: the model next to it in the same range does not run Google TV, so the list is not the same.

• Panasonic W95A: what it ships with and what can come off

  A Mini LED tuned with Panasonic's rigour, all four HDR formats and 1,380 measured nits. And on top of it, Amazon's store as the home screen.

• Fire TV Omni QLED: what it ships with and what can come off

  Here the store does not sit on top of the television: it is the one that makes it. That changes what can come off, and what comes back with every update.

• Xiaomi TV F2: what it ships with and what can come off

  An Amazon Fire TV with Xiaomi's name on the front. No Play Store and no Google packages here: the home screen belongs to Amazon, and that changes the whole list.

• TCL C7K: what it ships with and what can come off

  A thousand zones, 1,500 nits and 64 GB of storage: on this set you are not clearing out for room, you are clearing out because the home screen is not yours.

• Xiaomi TV A Pro 2025: what it ships with and what can come off

  An entry-level QLED with Google TV and only 8 GB of storage, where removing apps is not cosmetic: it decides whether the set can still update itself.

• TCL C6K: what it ships with and what can come off

  A mid-range Mini LED set with Google TV, a 144 Hz panel and a home screen that shows you more than you asked for.

• Sony BRAVIA 3: what it ships with and what can come off

  The cleanest Google TV on the market still ships with things you did not ask for, and here there is something else to watch: the features that only appear with a PlayStation in front.

• TCL P755: what it ships with and what comes off

  A mid-range 4K set with Google TV, a decent panel for the money, and a home screen full of things you did not ask for.

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