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Panasonic TX-55HZ2000B

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Television | £2299 | whf.cm/TX-55HZ2000B

The HZ2000 sits right at the top of Panasonic’s current TV range, elevated above its siblings by a so-called ‘Professional Edition’ OLED panel and a speaker system that boasts genuine upward-firing Atmos speakers.

We loved the HZ2000’s predecessor, with which it shares much of its design and technology, and we’re big fans of the more affordable HZ1000, so the omens here are very good indeed. Something, though, has gone rather wrong.

The HZ2000 looks largely identical to the GZ2000 it replaces, and that makes it a fairly utilitarian aesthetic proposition. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – Panasonic has resisted the urge to push flashy designs, instead choosing to allow the performance to do the talking.

A key part of the HZ2000 proposition is its advanced, Technics-tuned, Dolby Atmos sound system, which consists of

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