The Panasonic TX-65CXW804 offers ultra-HD TV to 65 inches. With the Trend Ultra-HD, it is only a matter of quality gain in the TV experience. And Panasonic has noticed as a handful of other manufacturers that you have to take a few euros in hand to help the advanced LCD panel technology by electronic and optical tricks to the jumps. For a number of years it has been so that the quality of the TV sets is much better than the parameters that the TV transmission and storage formats, even the Blu-ray disc, actually prescribe.
More than a good picture
TV sets with particularly rich colors and the deepest contrasts to build is at today's source offer almost without wit. Image enhancement circuits need to estimate how the signal would look if the transport path had not significantly cut it. This is the great art of the current top television. But now a new euphoria is spreading to the qualitative spearhead of TV technology. Ultra-HD will not only offer better resolution, but will finally be able to reproduce the most saturated colors you can imagine. And this in contrasts, which really demand the dynamic range of the human eye. So clean that streaks are a thing of the past, with much more motion blur and, of course, flicker-free.
Quality at all levels
The fact that all this is coming is really a matter of course. The question of time is answered by the race of streaming vendors against mass storage friends and classic TV stations. Just because the broadcast world is changing, everyone wants to be the first and has at least a test operation to show. Even future-oriented standards such as the signaling of the new parameters via HDMI or storage on Blu-ray are already in fairly dry cloths.
Conclusion
And well, if you have as here Panasonic TV hardware at the start, which is prepared for everything currently estimable. It is important to have sufficient computing power to be able to process HDR recordings with new codecs and more than their full bit depth, as well as an intelligent management of the extended Farbraume. Also at higher refresh rates than current.
Finally, expensive, but quality-optimizing technologies such as the local dimming of backlight LEDs are again announced, and the opacity of LCD filters are no longer boundaries. Incidentally, it is amazing how much the image of an LCD panel can be optimized by perfecting the background lighting. It needs more and better LEDs.
The color improvement as well as the brilliancy optimization is to adjust the spectrum. The ideal white backlight LED produces three narrow-band frequency peaks in the three basic colors red, green and blue. Standard components mix blue only with yellow to white.
Here, the energy of a large gel component is lost by filtering on the LCD cells, yes, it is converted into waste heat and also makes cleanly separated green and red more difficult. Two technologies have already been adopted to solve the problem and produce clean basic colors: Quantum Dots (Nanocrystals) LEDs with red phosphorus. Even if the name sounds much uncooler, Panasonic puts here on the latter variant. By the way, the LEDs generate less waste heat, so that more light can be used. And here we have the basis for the second innovation: HDR. Modern top panels deliver a native contrast of almost 1000: 1. This is ten times more than old TV standards, but it is not enough for the "high dynamic range" of the future.
The magic word is "Local Dimming", the darkening of the backlight of individual image areas depending on the required maximum brightness. Previously, it was self-evident that hundreds of LEDs sat directly behind the panel, as Panasonic recently used in the top model AXW904. However, resourceful marketing people have considered that local dimming can also happen from the edge, and sometimes even limit it to a handful of dimming zones.
Since you can not blame Panasonic that under the name "Local Dimming Pro" according to our laboratory knowledge, only edge LEDs are controlled - but a lot of them and the whole thing properly implemented. For the first time, we were looking for the disturbing side effects that local dimming normally entails: lighthouses around bright objects or, above all, cluster structures that are translucent from the side. Pumps for brightness changes in the image.
Nothing like this can be found here. Although the deep black in the completely darkened laboratory is still good to be seen and depending on the picture content it also a bit dull, but one looks into the brilliant objects in the picture, adapts the eye and black is full. It is very important that at least a dark LCD surface was completely homogeneous in our test device and was not mixed with gray clouds or light leaks. Here, Panasonic has done its work really well and by dimming the whole a proper but not exaggerated kick. The VA panel provided an already excellent base contrast.
As a disadvantage, this is faced, as usual, by a restricted viewing angle. Seen from the front and measured, Panasonics Elektronik does not show any nonsense. Colors and contrasts, gamma curve and saturation match are immaculate. Above all the improvement of the latter wrote himself also in the dark picture contents on the flag. And it has been well implemented.
The fact that a TV set should be much more than a standard monitor with excellent image neutrality is not necessary. Panasonic also has a lot to offer in terms of equipment, operation, sound and processing. Above all, the many possibilities of TV reception, processing and transmission of TV material are market-leading. Thanks to double-winnings, USB recordings are possible with simultaneous TV as well as a double image.
The Panasonic TX65CXW804 streams live TV and recordings via DLNA to the home network and now even over the Panasonicservice TV Anywhere in the entire Internet. Transcoding is used to adjust the image quality to the bandwidth of the DSL line. In addition to DLNA, an external tuner, for example a special other (Panasonic) TV set, can also be supplied with receiving signals via the DVB-> IP function.
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Last but not least Panasonics Smartphone and Tablet app "TV Remote 2" streams funny movies and TV back and forth, and can also control the TV or even calibrate it. What is missing is only a great program editor with editorial content such as Sony and Philips.
To get even smarter, Panasonic entered into a cooperation with Mozilla and founded its new operating system on Firefox. In fact, the user interface has become considerably more transparent and catchy through a complete design-technological reorientation. You put the most favorite actions simply on the start screen, which allows however only a handful of icons. Thus, the most important functions are also easily accessible via the touchpad remote control, which in the predecessor models was more likely to be a shadow case.
For modern people, this also has a microphone for inputting commands or search terms. Anyone who thinks to be safe and will not be intercepted as soon as they remove the batteries from the hand transmitter will be surprised to find a second microphone in the TV case.
This case is by the way, as used by Panasonic, much more stable and more solid than most competitors. Once again, the Japanese have reacted to quality and can be confirmed by the fact that no Asian manufacturer has reported any less technical problems from our readers. The electronics are not only long-lasting, but are capable of coping with many of the currently required media content. HDMI is present in the current version, thus offers 4K @ 60Hz with HDCP 2.2 - and offers the option to update to HDR (= HDMI 2.0a). Panasonic could now do without the DisplayPort socket of the big brother and predecessor.
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The decoding of HEVC videos in 10-bit at 60Hz will be the order of the day in the ultra-HD world, and here, too, our tests worked smoothly even with the sophisticated Astra UHD transponders. Alone the playback of 3D films was not as successful as an ultra-HDTV could be expected. So that it does not flicker or flicker, the image resolution of the 100 Hz panel is halved in the horizontal - probably not to half the UHD resolution, but half full HD. This is anything but unusual for Shutter TVs. 3D does not seem to be a great selling argument any more, so Panasonic saves eyeglasses.
For this, the image quality in 2D is as exciting as it is professional, because it can be adjusted very variably to the personal preferences. The THX mode provides precise, and therefore rather unspectacular images; in the "Professional" modes, you can combine clean colors with increased luminosity. "Standard" and "Dynamic" are as usual bright to roar.
If High Dynamic Range is added in the future, it is no longer necessary to overlay old sources, but then there is really high-contrast footage in unprecedented brilliance, which the author is just as intentional. And if you prefer it, you can buy the luminosity of the 804 in 55, 50 or even 40 inches.
With this series and the TX65CXW804, Panasonic is a really big litter succeeded. With extended color space, promised update to HDR sources and improved movie mode, there is absolutely nothing to prevent a dazzling TV future.
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