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TsugiCinema Inc. · Delaware C-Corp.

TsugiCinema

“home theater rewoven”

The highest-fidelity place on the internet to watch and publish cinema. Made for filmmakers, musicians, and AI-native studios alike. Live today on the TsugiNode, a generational leap in streaming hardware that drives any modern 4K TV past what streaming and Blu-ray can carry.

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The problem

Your TV is underserved.
You have never seen its full potential.

Modern 4K panels can resolve smoother gradients, deeper color, and finer texture than the streaming pipe ever sends them. Most of the internet still ships 8-bit 4:2:0 at YouTube-era bitrates. Your TV can intake 12-bit 4:4:4 studio master quality. We have already closed that gap, on consumer silicon, in a real customer's home.

Side-by-side: the same twilight cinematic frame, master quality on the left with smooth color gradient and clean warm window lights, typical streaming on the right with visible color banding and chroma bleed.
Smooth gradients, sharp edges. What your TV can resolve, vs the banding most streaming actually sends.
Side-by-side: the same moonlit night scene, master quality on the left preserving subtle shadow gradations and faint cloud detail, typical streaming on the right with crushed blacks and lost detail.
Shadow detail, soft falloff. The night sky a 12-bit master keeps readable, vs crushed blacks and lost detail.
Live, not theoretical

A working consumer device, a generational leap on the streaming set-top, today.

The dual-layer compression pipeline runs on off-the-shelf consumer silicon, driving a reference Sony Bravia 8 II in our San Francisco demo room. We can show you in person. Email partnerships@tsugicinema.com.

  • ·San Francisco reference room (Sony Bravia 8 II)
  • ·Loaner TsugiNode for qualified pilot partners
  • ·Technical walkthrough for strategic partners (post-NDA)
San Francisco reference room: Sony Bravia 8 II reference TV between two KEF floorstanding speakers, playing Blade Runner 2049 at night. A sunset projector casts a warm halo on the wall above a curved bouclé sofa; floor-to-ceiling industrial windows look out on the SF skyline with Salesforce Tower lit blue in the distance.
San Francisco reference room
What we built

Three patent-pending pillars,
One Product.

The three filed US provisional patents below sit alongside each other as a portfolio bundle and anchor the consumer cinema product. Two are running on consumer silicon today; the third is the substrate for the long bet. Four additional provisionals filed in May 2026 cover the TsugiAI Optimization Division. Seven filings total.

Diagram: how three streams (carrier, color delta, gray delta) combine into one master-quality picture

Dual-layer compression

Master-quality 4K 12-bit 4:4:4 from a 30 to 38 GB master, delivered at a fraction of typical streaming bitrates. Running on consumer silicon today.

Patent-pending · US Prov. 64/054,446
Trinity decoder system block diagram with three slave clock domains feeding an FPGA digital logic device

Plesiochronous synchronization

A multi-decoder synchronization fabric that joins two or three decoders, scanline aligned, to deliver 12-bit color from commodity 8-bit-per-decoder silicon. The Kintsugi seam, in hardware.

Patent-pending · US Prov. 63/987,139
Infinity gradient-consensus supercomputer system block diagram with master clock domain, PCIe Gen 5/6 + CXL 3.1 switch fabric, and shared memory pool

Distributed AI training substrate

A sub-nanosecond gradient-consensus architecture for distributed AI training. Apparatus claims filed; software-analog validation across vision and large language model continual learning.

Patent-pending · US Prov. 64/055,093

Specific claim language is counsel-protected. Strategic partners under NDA receive the full technical annex on request via partnerships@tsugicinema.com.

Demand signal

159,000 organic views,
for a tutorial with no UI and a video player.

An enthusiast-community tutorial covering advanced playback on the same consumer hardware class TsugiNodes run on has accumulated approximately 159,000 organic views, zero paid acquisition. Barebones setup: no UI, a single video-player surface, manual configuration. The audience self-selected into “master-quality playback on a Linux box” before TsugiCinema existed. With the Kintsugi UI, the creator marketplace, and the 90/10 economics, the polished surface addresses a materially larger audience.

Authored by a consultant to TsugiCinema.

Partnerships

We are open to silicon, OEM, distribution, and studio conversations.

The TsugiNode reference design is consumer SoC today and ASIC tomorrow. The Dual-Layer Compression pipeline is ready for SoC manufacturer integration. The Infinity gradient-consensus substrate is targeting the UALink Consortium track. If your roadmap intersects any of those, the door is open.

Silicon and OEM partnership icon: a SoC die at center bonded out to a surrounding integration frame.
Silicon & OEM

SoC integration, NPU integration

Snapdragon-class NPUs, AV1 / AV2 ecosystem, dual-decoder SoCs, GPU-shader sync. Reference-design walkthroughs and technical-annex packages available under NDA.

Distribution partnership icon: a stylized home cinema room with a wall display flanked by two stand speakers.
Distribution

Architect, installer, retail

Premium home-cinema install channel. Cofounder Dylan brings architect-channel relationships from Apple flagship retail and Edge at Hudson Yards. We are quoting full rooms today.

Studios and research partnership icon: a film slate joined by a gold seam to a research bar-and-trend graph.
Studios & research

AI studios, B2B compute

Selectively curated AI film studios for the platform. B2B compute for research workloads on the residential edge. Active interest from the computational biology research community.

Strategic conversations

Strategic-partner inbound is read directly by the founder. Technical annex, patent-portfolio detail, and reference-room demo offer follow under NDA.

partnerships@tsugicinema.com
Who we serve

For the picture.
For the maker.

For viewers

Your TV deserves more.
Your box delivers it.

Our dual-layer pipeline ships exactly what your hardware can show. Cleaner color, smoother gradients, and lower compression noise are visible on any modern 4K TV. The headline number (12-bit 4:4:4) is unlocked on reference-grade panels. The advantage disappears once it gets re-compressed by YouTube, so the honest test is on the box itself.

Viewer value proposition: pay direct to the creator who made it; never see a forced ad you did not choose; your box earns credits for premium content while it sits idle.
Read how playback works →
For creators

Your master, shipped at master quality.
Ninety cents of every dollar.

You made something that looks like what you rendered. Why does the rest of the internet make it look like something else? TsugiCinema ships your master at master quality. You set the price. Your superfans know exactly what they are paying for.

Creator revenue split donut: 90 percent to creator (gold), 10 percent to platform (charcoal).
Forced ads
0
ever, on any video

Human creators are held in the highest esteem. AI studios are selectively curated to a published quality bar.

For human creators → For AI studios →
Brand commitments

Three commitments.
No exceptions.

Five content cards stacked above a horizontal gold line, with tick marks below the line. The line is the published quality threshold; everything above it has cleared the bar.

Above the Fidelity Floor.

Every video on TsugiCinema clears a published quality threshold. Specific, measurable, documented. No other platform commits to that.

A clean video frame with a centered play arrow above a continuous gold timeline with no ad markers anywhere.

Never a forced video ad.

Pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll, interstitial: all forbidden. Forever. Display ads on browse pages only, clearly labeled, never on the page where you are watching.

A video tile connected by a gold seam directly to a dollar sign in a gold ring. Below: a struck-out platform-subscription pill, the explicit not-this.

Pay only for what you watch.

No platform subscription. No paid tier to remove ads (there are none to remove). Creators set their own prices. You know exactly what you are paying for.

“The creator should have the freedom to set the price for their work. The platform’s only job is to deliver it at master quality and stay out of the way.”

The long bet

We put the power of compute, storage, and AI
back in the hands of the people.

The long bet: TsugiNodes that could one day serve as delivery peers, storage caches, and local inference nodes. Operators, not the platform, would choose which artists, studios, and research customers receive their spare compute.

Large private AI is consolidating compute into a small number of data centers. We are betting there is room for an alternative that scales residentially on the margins that matter: power, cooling, latency to the user, and consumer agency. The constraints are real, residential uplink and consumer silicon among them, and the build is measured in years.

None of this is a launch announcement. It is long-dated optionality: hardware bought for the picture that could one day also relay bandwidth, hold cold storage, and run local-first hybrid inference for people the operator chooses.

Read the full vision →
Residential edge mesh: a central origin node connected to six residential edge nodes by gold seams, with dashed edge-to-edge peering lines.
Phase 1 delivery peer icon: a central node delivering content to four neighboring nodes in a peer-to-peer mesh.
Phase 1

Delivery peer

Edge CDN. Would reduce origin egress and improve last-mile latency.

Phase 2 storage cache icon: a node with three stacked storage layers holding cached content close to the viewer.
Phase 2

Storage cache

Operator-controlled cache. Gifted unlocks, master-quality preloads.

Phase 3 compute node icon: a processor frame with internal lattice and a gold activity pulse, the operator's spare cycles put to work.
Phase 3

Compute node

Spare cycles for local-first inference. The operator would choose which jobs run.

Phase 4 B2B compute icon: a residential compute node selling spare cycles to an external research or studio counterparty, with credits settling in fiat.
Phase 4

B2B compute

Research, studio, biology workloads. Active interest from the computational biology research community.

Technology

Seven filed US provisional patents.
One working consumer device.

Behind the Viewer experience and the Creator royalty pipeline is a seven-asset filed US provisional patent portfolio covering distributed training, edge compression, plesiochronous synchronization, continual fine-tuning, adaptive meta-optimization, and renormalization-derived numerical optimization. The portfolio has been independently externally validated across all seven filings.

Filed provisionals
0
Cinema stack and TsugiAI portfolio
Reference rig
$0
Off-the-shelf consumer device
Bit depth shipped
0-bit
4:4:4 chroma, 4K
Creator split
0%
to creator, every dollar
Research division

TsugiLabs

Cross-domain research at the boundary between algorithms, silicon, and system architecture.

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TsugiAI
Algorithms, adaptation
TsugiAI

Algorithms and adaptation. Continual learning, signal-quantized optimization, model behavior under hardware constraints.

TsugiFabric
System architecture
TsugiFabric

System architecture. The substrate connecting algorithms to silicon. Distributed training, compute fabric, cross-domain co-design.

TsugiSilicon
Hardware engineering
TsugiSilicon

Hardware engineering. Multi-stream video pipelines, hardware-aware compression, the silicon that ships in front of the viewer.

The team

Cross-domain expertise.
Full-stack AI bench under NDA.

NVIDIA Inception Program Inception Member
Tong Liu

Tong Liu

Cofounder & CEO

Cross-domain systems engineer with 7 years in big tech as a Software Engineer at Google Search, Amazon, TripAdvisor, and Rivian Automotive. Now leads hardware architecture, FPGA and ROM engineering, and dual-layer compression at TsugiCinema. Inventor on all seven filed US provisional patents (sole inventor on five; joint inventor on two). Dual-degree B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering and Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dylan Lindeberg

Dylan Lindeberg

Cofounder & President, TsugiCinema Home Cinema Division

Operations, go-to-market via the home-cinema install channel, finance, and supply chain. Two-time founder with a profitable acquisition exit. Previously CEO of Open Door Tea (acquired 2025) and Senior Account Executive at Design Strategies, a luxury commercial-architecture firm. B.S. Finance and Entrepreneurship from Northeastern University.

Wenling Ma

Wenling Ma

Fractional Chief of Staff & Head of Compliance

Three decades of governance, strategic planning, and copyright-clearance experience. Chief of Staff at the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, where she previously served as Director of Strategic Planning, with earlier tenure at Sacred Heart University.

Backing this work

Lead investor and senior technical bench.

Shaheen Hoque (left) and Tong Liu (right) at the Pacific coast
Shaheen Hoque (left) and Tong Liu (right).
Chief Science Advisor & Lead Investor

Shaheen Hoque

Three decades of guidance, navigation, and control engineering at Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Orbital Sciences, MBDA, and Draper. Currently Director of GNC Engineering at Atropos Group and Adjunct Professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Engaged part-time with TsugiCinema today; full-time path under discussion.

Senior technical bench

Full-stack AI bench under NDA

Senior AI researchers and ML systems engineers from frontier-lab backgrounds, engaged under NDA.

Waitlist

Join the waitlist.

Tell us who you are. We will be in touch.

  • ·Alpha tester / consumer
  • ·Home theater bundle (premium install)
  • ·Human creator (filmmakers, EDM artists, individual authors)
  • ·AI film studio (selective)
How to join