Panasonic has broken into the big leagues in terms of screen size with its new 2000nd flagship model, the OLED TV LZXNUMX; This is the first time the TV maker has offered a seventy-seven-inch OLED.
Unveiled at CES 2000nd, Panasonic's new flagship offers everything we loved about last year's JZ4, with a XNUMXK HDR panel, OLED picture quality, HDMI twenty-one specification, and more.
Panasonic, however, was largely satisfied with sticking to the standardized TV sizes of fifty-five and sixty-five inches for its OLEDs, as well as a forty-eight-inch OLED in the entry-level JZ980. Nonetheless, the TV maker is now expanding to larger sizes, albeit now stopping at the eighty-three or eighty-eight-inch OLEDs offered by LG and Sony.
However, Panasonic doesn't just focus on size. The LZ2000 builds on the audio evolution of last year's model, which added side speakers for three-dimensional sound, in addition to Dolby Atmos support, a tuned Technics audio system, and front and bottom firing drivers, to create an all-inclusive. . a home theater system unmatched with other screens.
This year's flagship goes one step further, replacing the equipment's front-facing speakers entirely with a new range of speakers with "beam-training technology" that can better direct sound towards the viewer; There's a Pinpoint mode that can focus audio to a specific location in front of the TV, while an Area mode outputs sound to a larger space. A third and final Spot mode offers something in between, while focusing most of the volume on a particular seat.
We still have no costs for the LZ2000; Panasonic says costs will be confirmed "closer to the sale date of summer 2022", likely between June and August. You can be sure it's going to be expensive, whereas last year's JZ2000 started at € two six hundred and ninety-nine for the fifty-five-inch size, going up to € three-four hundred and ninety-nine for a sixty model. and five inches.
Panasonic tends to launch its flagship model for the first year, already before gradually introducing reducer models later, with which we may have to wait one or a couple of months already before seeing what awaits us ahead of what we suppose will go to be next. LZ1500, LZ1000, and OLED LZ980, or Panasonic LCD models. However, so far, we've seen the best Panasonic has to offer for XNUMX.