Panasonic TX-55HZ1000B

£1899

Panasonic TVs rather fly under the radar these days. If LG and Samsung are the cool kids in class, and Philips is the slightly weird extrovert who wears colourful trousers and just about gets away with it, Panasonic is the geeky kid in the corner who doesn’t really talk to anyone, but quietly gets on with his work.

A Panasonic TV isn’t flashy or super-stylish. It doesn’t have a ring of lights around it and it doesn’t turn into a picture frame when you’re not watching it. It just goes about the business of producing the best picture possible; isn’t that all you really want from your TV?

The HZ1000 is the first model we’ve tested from the company’s 2020 OLED range, and we have high hopes for it, not least because the very best OLED TV we tested in 2019 was a Panasonic. Can this new model follow that same form?

There’s generally little to differentiate one OLED from another, particularly with the stand or feet detached, but Panasonic does buck the trend for debadging by including the company