Panasonic crashes CES 2022 with new OLED TV that promises incredible sound

Panasonic crashes CES 2022 with new OLED Idiot box that promises incredible audio

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Non all the best OLED TVs on the market come from LG and Sony. Panasonic brought a new OLED model to CES 2022 that promises incredible sound, amend AI optimizations and some upgraded gaming features.

The Panasonic LZ2000 OLED TV is the next-generation version of the JZ2000 launched terminal twelvemonth. It'due south coming in 55-, 65- and 77-inch configurations, delivering the brand's largest OLED Boob tube size offering yet. But that doesn't play a major role in Panasonic's OLED story — instead past sets have been all about audio, targeting a typical OLED shortcoming with enhanced directional audio features.

The LZ2000 continues the visitor's efforts with built-in audio modes and overhauled the front-firing speakers with axle-forming technology.

High-stop TV panels are notoriously thin, and so information technology's difficult to pack booming speakers in the chassis. Features like Samsung's Object Tracking Audio and Sony's Acoustic Multi Sound have looked to upgrade on-board sound without pushing customers to buy one of the best soundbars. Panasonic experimenting with enhanced sound technologies could extend the same convenience to potential customers.

As for movie, the Panasonic LZ2000 supports both Dolby Vision and HDR10+ formats, and adds ambience-aware versions of these same formats, with Dolby Vision IQ and HDR10+ Adaptive support to adjust HDR brightness in response to ambient lite levels effectually the Television. This is cardinal for daytime viewing, when a brightly lit room would otherwise blunt the visual outcome of HDR.

In addition to the ambient optimizations based on environs, the Panasonic LZ2000 OLED TV also features an upgrade to the Motorcar AI genre detection to make adjustments based on the movie. The gear up uses artificial intelligence to alter the ideal settings for the content y'all're watching, whether that's sport, movies, gaming, etc.

Speaking of gaming, Panasonic is making a pitch for the best gaming TVs in 2022. It'll come with a combined settings overlay chosen Game Control Board, which sounds a lot like LG'southward Game Optimizer menu. This would assemble all the gaming toggles and controls users might demand in a single interface. The LZ2000 will get NVIDIA GPU detection, improved 60Hz latency and HDMI 2.1 back up, as well.

The Panasonic LZ2000 OLED TV lineup is expected to launch in summertime 2022, though no word on price or where the set will exist on shelves to purchase. Panasonic'southward OLEDs don't ever make it to Northward America, but we should learn more about availability in the coming months.

Kate Kozuch is a senior writer at Tom's Guide covering wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she'southward not in cyborg mode, y'all can observe her on an exercise bike or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot regular army will rule the earth i mean solar day, but until and then, achieve her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.