Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B, A Comprehensive Review of the OLED Experience

Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B Review: 55-inch 4K OLED 1000TV Panel In the ever-intensifying war for the perfect viewing experience in your home entertainment setup, the Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B positioned itself squarely on my radar. Not just saying that it’s a TV for your viewing pleasure in your home theatre, but it is a truly immersive experience with your eyes and ears thanks to its lifelike images and room-filling surround sound. Find out how the Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B measures up in this review.

Unpacking the Essence: Key Features of the Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B

Yes, sure, the Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B offers a near-perfect picture. But every note in the melody serves a purpose, and every piece of sound hardware serves a purpose too. What are its key features?

• OLED technology (organic light-emitting diode): This is at the heart of the TX-55HZ1000B. Every OLED pixel creates its own light, so there is true black, perfect contrast and hence fully saturated colour. The picture is quite literally to die for. Deep shadows and bright highlights combine in a blaze of realism: you can’t help but be drawn into the next movie. It is like looking through a window at another world, in this case, the one your TV is putting on.
• 4K Resolution Not a tree falls in the forest – and you won’t miss it. Like images come alive in the TX-55HZ1000B. All because it has 4K resolution, which packs in four times the pixels of older HD TVs. So each image contains more detail. And the lines of contrast that bring scenes to life are sharper. The branch-lines of architecture are more distinguished. Textured cloth and wools take on new colour. Landscapes are more akin to real life. So much so that you will pick out more detail than when you really looked at the scene.
• 4HDR Support: This TV can display and play HDR10 and Dolby Vision content. HDR (high dynamic range) is a standard that gives more nuanced contrast and wider colour coverage, so on an HDR TV, your HDR-encoded content looks better than on a TV without HDR: your HDR content shows more detail in the darkest and brightest areas of the video image. Dim light scenes become more realistic, and brightly lit scenes become more dazzling. Action sequences look more dramatic, and sunsets over a broad landscape are infinitely more realistic, with a wider range of details and more realistic colour gradients.
• Dolby Atmos Audio: Dolby Atmos puts sound in three-dimensions, so that it seems to come from all around and even from above you and below you, in addition to from the left and right. It’s a powerful experience, such as when there’s a helicopter flying overhead, or when you hear a secret agent whisper in your ear, all the way up to a spaceship blowing up and landing just near you.
• Filmmaker Mode: The image you see is the image the director intended you to see Built-in Filmmaker Mode disables motion smoothing and other image processing technology so that you can enjoy movies as the director intended you to see them. You get closer to the cinema experience with a more natural and authentic image that is intended by the filmmaker.
• Smart TV features: Powered by Firefox OS, the TX-55HZ1000B enables you access a wide variety of streaming services including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube and many others. Streaming your favourite shows, movies or music limitless goes hand-in-hand with Firefox OS. With Firefox OS’s user-friendly and easy interface, navigating and locating your favourite contents becomes less strenuous.

The Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B: Picture Perfect Performance

This TV guarantees a picture quality that raises the bar for home entertainment to a new level. Its OLED panel coupled with HDR support and 4K resolution delivers a stunning and engaging viewing experience.

• Exceptional Contrast: OLED is perfect black Finally we come to a feature that defines one of OLED TV’s key advantages: infinite contrast. For regions of scenes requiring pure black – when turning off the light on objects in a scene – standard LCD TVs must employ the type of filter used in the Samsung, which actually prevents backlight from passing through the panel. OLED, on the other hand, is perfect black.
• Vivid Colours: The colour gamut of the OLED panel also is broader, indicating it can produce a bigger array of colours, delivering extraordinary hues that are richer and more vibrant. All colour and characteristics from any image appear more real than before. The reds of the sunset, the blues of the ocean and the greens of the forest are brought to life, and you are able to simply revel in the enhanced visual experience.
• Sharp Details: Experience 4K resolution for stunning details on every inch of your screen. With 4K contents, feel intricate details of pattern on clothing, textures, and along the lines of landscapes and more. Feel like you're right on the screen and experience all the details as clear as possible.
• Smooth Motion: Motion on the TX-55HZ1000B is top-notch. Blur and stuttering are effectively attenuated, so you get smooth and realistic motion. It is particularly good when watching fast and furious action, where focus-hopping during a race, chasing a fleeing bad guy or watching an infield fly during a baseball game is really immersive and compelling.
• Immersive viewing: Thanks to its fantastic picture quality and HDR support, the TX-55HZ1000B makes you feel like you’re inside the world on the screen and watching the action unfold. Every scene comes to life with bright, bold colours, deep blacks and sharp details that give forms a life-like sense of depth.

Sound That Transports You: Dolby Atmos on the TX-55HZ1000B

But as fine as the TX-55HZ1000B looks, it delivers more than excellent visuals. Next-level entertainment is delivered through a Dolby Atmos audio system. What is Dolby Atmos? Simply put, it’s a 3D surround-sound system that delivers audio from all around you, positioning the sound in three dimensions instead of the typical left-and-right soundscape. Because of this, you’ll notice that sounds appear to come from everywhere: above your head or below your feet, or even all around you. It definitely felt like I was right there with the action.

Close your eyes and picture a thunderstorm rolling in on you – rain pouring, thunder rumbling overhead – or a spaceship flying away from you in space, the engines roaring around you. That’s what Dolby Atmos delivers to your ears: a soundstage that feels like it’s simulating an experience happening in real life all around you. It’s often mind-blowing, and adds audio depth to what you’re watching, listening to or playing.

The Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B: Pros and Cons

Pros

• Exceptional picture quality: blacks are true blacks and colours are bright and subtly textured — it’s like a movie in your home.
• Dolby Atmos immersive audio: Here is where you can really see the full effect of the audio experience. The audio is so versatile that it can flow above and around you, enveloping and immersing you in the content, making you feel part of the story.
• High Dynamic Range (HDR) Support: With support for HDR10 and Dolby Vision, enjoy contrast and colour at their best with High Dynamic Range – revealing stunning detail across wider contrast, brighter highlights and darker shadows.
• Film­maker Mode: You can watch movies exactly as the film­makers intended! Preserve the cinematic experience.Colour grading: Original,Unaltered. Aspect ratio: Original,Unaltered. Frame rate: Original,Unaltered. You can see the movie like the director really wanted you to!
• Smart TV Features: Enjoy your favorite streaming services and apps with the Firefox OS ready to go. All of your favorite content will be at your finger tips as you'll have access to all of your favorite streaming apps such as your favorite movies, shows, and music.

Cons

• Price: Premium across the board, this can exclude TX-55HZ1000B from consideration from those with a tight budget, given that there are so many other excellent sets on the market. What the TX-55HZ1000B offers is the absolute best picture quality with every size option, backed by the ultimate immersive audio experience available. If you want the ultimate home theatre experience, the TX-55HZ1000B can deliver.
• Smart TV Platform: The Firefox OS is quite good, though a little less polished and powerful than Android TV or webOS. It looks good and provides a solid selection of apps and features, though is probably a little less intuitive and marginally less fully-featured versus some other options.

Making the Decision: Is the Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B Right for You?

The Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B is a premium TV for people who care about picture quality and big audio soundscapes. If you’re after a cinematic TV, and prepared to pay for one, the TX-55HZ1000B deserves to be on your shortlist. It’s a TV for people who want to get drawn into their entertainments. But considering more budget-focused alternatives or other smart TV platforms with wider and richer apps and features, you might find another option that better suits you.

The final word on whether the TX-55HZ1000B is for you must come from a personal comparison against other models or what’s available at the time, whatever your specific needs, and, if possible, an in-person visit. There’s simply no comparison to experiencing this beauty in person, to let those stunning visuals and rich audio unleash their full glory.

Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B: A Final Word

All of which makes it a major big-screen entertainment package, with or without a Thunderbolt connection – but there are other ways to connect smartphones to TVs, too. So is this Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B a TV for you? As ever, it depends on what you mean by ‘a TV’. It will chew through your bank account and has a slightly daunting array of features, which can seem intimidating.

But if you’re the kind of discerning viewer who truly cares about picture quality rather than being dazzled by hype about this year’s ‘leap ahead’ in technology, and wish to sit back and enjoy a movie like you would in the cinema, then you will get a lot out of this Panasonic – but don’t ignore the price tag. While older screens might help you follow the plot, this massive LCD television can offer you a completely different experience.

With the Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B television, you have the chance to make your home a real home cinema. This latest top-shelf TV set reveals every subtle detail of a picture, and makes you feel like you are right inside it, instead of just watching it. This is a TV for lovers of cinema, of gaming – for utmost enjoyment in one’s free time. In a word, this is a TV for perfectionists.