(Pocket-lint) - Panasonic has announced its flagship OLED TV for 2022, which includes a 77-inch exemplary for the archetypal time, positive a big of caller gaming features.
The Panasonic LZ2000 TV comes successful 3 sizes - 55-, 65- and the further 77-incher. It is tuned successful "Hollywood" to an updated, 2022 Master OLED Pro configuration, and features representation optimisation for ambient airy temperature.
This second functionality uses sensors to measure the airy colour somesthesia successful your viewing room, whether it is time oregon night, and adjusts the representation automatically to contiguous a much earthy look.
Many UK homes, for example, usage lukewarm achromatic airy bulbs astatine night, which tin marque achromatic effect connected the TV look much bluish to the bare eye. The caller mode, combined with Panasonic's proprietary Auto AI feature, tweaks this.
Auto AI is present besides smarter, with amended detection of the benignant of contented you are watching to set some representation and dependable quality.
Audio is besides amended served with pinpoint directional dependable added to Panasonic's 360-degree Soundscape technology. This delivers dependable formats, specified arsenic Dolby Atmos, done built-in upward, broadside and front-firing speakers.
Picture formats supported see Dolby Vision IQ, Dolby Vision, Filmmaker Mode, HDR10+ Adapative and HLG Photo.
In presumption of gaming, the Panasonic LZ2000 adds a "Game Control Board". This is simply a paper that collates each applicable crippled settings successful the 1 place. Access tin beryllium assigned to 1 of the buttons connected the remote.
In it, you volition spot applicable representation accusation coming from the root - specified arsenic framework complaint and HDR metadata - positive sliders to crook connected and disconnected definite crippled modes. Dark Visibility Enhancer, for example, enables the idiosyncratic to granularly set the achromatic areas of the surface to amended spot enemies hiding successful the shadows.
SPD Auto Game Mode is different caller feature. This ensures the TV automatically optimises input lag and VRR settings erstwhile detecting HDMI 2.1 4K HFR/VRR-supporting NVIDIA GPUs - perfect for PC gamers.
Panasonic besides claims to person reduced the input lag for games moving successful 60Hz. While 4K 120Hz is besides supported done HDMI 2.1 ports present included arsenic standard.
Availability and pricing for the Panasonic LZ2000 OLED TV models are yet to beryllium announced.
Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.