Panasonic JZ1000 4K OLED TV
One-minute review With the JZ1000, Panasonic has – and not for the first time – attempted to position itself as the choice of discerning grown-ups. Why be slim enough to comfortably hang on the wall, Panasonic asks, when you can stand on a swivelling pedestal? Why be the best upscaler around when you can enjoy such rich, lustrous native 4K images? And why watch Disney Plus when you could, um… not? To be fair, the JZ1000 gets an awful lot right. Picture quality from 4K sources is outstanding: bright, high-contrast, lavishly detailed and with those deep, dark blacks we all associate with OLED technology. It’s ergonomically impeccable, and in My Home Screen 6.0 it’s got Panasonic’s most competitive smart TV interface so far. It accommodates all the best and most techy features of next-gen consoles. And that swivelling central stand is not to be sniffed at, either. At this money, though, we’d ideally like it to sound a bit more animated. And there’s no denying that some alternative tel...