Promises better gaming, better picture quality and better sound quality
Panasonic has today continued its happy tradition of unveiling its latest annual flagship TV refresh at the CES in Las Vegas. The new LZ2000 flagship sets inevitably use OLED technology (Panasonic’s previous devotion to plasma TVs was always likely to see it embrace OLED over LCD) and builds on the high-brightness panel and Hollywood tuning story that’s served its flagship OLEDs so well for years now. The LZ2000 will be available in 55-inch,65-inch and, I’m happy to report, new 77-inch screen sizes, and boasts a number of promising improvements. Especially when it comes to gaming. Particularly remarkable on the gaming front is a new low latency mode that appears during demonstrations to get input lag with 4K/60Hz games down to a mind-blowing 1.5ms from the already impressive 10.5ms delivered by the standard Game preset. It’s also reassuring to find support for the gaming world’s variable refresh rate,4K at 120Hz and ALLM features up and being available from launch, deliverable through two 40Gbps HDMI 2.1 ports. There’s no need to wait for any firmware updates this year. The LZ2000 introduces a number of other more unique and in-depth gaming features, too. A new Game Control Board, for instance, can be called up to give you access to detailed information on the gaming video signal being received (including frame rate, HDR metadata and chroma sub-sampling data), or access to the following tools: Also thoughtful is a new feature that lets the LZ2000 automatically detect which Nvidia GPU a game source might be using (such as an RTX30xx), and then optimising the screen’s input lag and VRR settings accordingly.
