Panasonic is highlighting support for "all popular HDR formats" but the LCD technology in these TVs will not match the most advanced LCD TVs from competing brands, and if you had hoped to see a successor to Panasonic's flagship DX900 with full array local dimming from 2016, HX940 is not it - despite its '940' designation. The TX-55HX940 is their best LCD model.

You can cast YouTube and Netflix to the TV. The Panasonic does without native support for Apple TV+ and Disney+, mind you, which restricts your options just a little.As usual, Panasonic's setup menus are as in-depth as you want them to be. Due to the local dimming, small bright details can also lose a lot of brightness. So there are no extremely deep black values, and you notice that. So you can watch TV and record another channel at the same time. Strangely, there is no “Movie” preset either. The color calibration is excellent, so that the color range is used optimally. This is mainly due to the modest volume. The IPS panel has a very poor ANSI contrast of 675: 1, which is hardly affected by the local dimming (680: 1). My App is at the bottom left, you can assign that button to an app of your choice in the app store, for example YouTube. The colour balance is absolutely lovely - the film is alive with earth-tones of all kinds, and in the Panasonic's hands they're wide-ranging, convincing and endlessly varied. The settings menu is very long, and that remains something that we think a better organization would make it more organized. The bright parts of the image gain light, and color reproduction is slightly better. / C / S2) and a double CI + lock. Good performance for dialogues, very poor for music and film. The HX940 series has a double TV tuner for digital TV (DVB-T2). Unfortunately, the audio player only reads tag information from MP3 files. Panasonic, though, is a bit more grown up than most - so its 4K TV range includes more of the specification highlights than quite a few alternatives.This is most apparent where high dynamic range (HDR) is concerned.

It lacks the Panasonic's nap hand of HDR standards, and it sounds no better than the HX940 - but it serves up punchy, high-contrast images and is a … A plastic cable tray with cover is provided on the back of both feet. We see (hear) that approach more often, but on this model you really should not set the volume too high. Even subtitles hardly disturb the picture. Two useful tips are the “My App” button and the “Picture” button. You will still see some tiles at the bottom of the screen, but there are no more different rows of tiles that you can reach with the arrow keys, everything is now in one row. In addition to ARC, they only offer Furthermore, there are three USB connections, a component video input with stereo cinch, and an optical digital output. If you've owned a Panasonic TV in the last, say, eight or nine years then the handset will hold no alarms or surprises for you - and if you haven't, then this is a comprehensive remote control with sensibly sized buttons and no particular eccentricities in terms of layout.In theory, the HX940 should look its best when displaying some disc-borne HDR content - and certainly when it's delivering a 4K UHD HDR10+ disc of Stanley Kubrick's This is a painstaking remaster of a quite elderly film - but aside from some minor picture noise in some of the numerous wide shots (of sky or snow, mostly), the HX940 turns in an assured and accomplished performance.

With the same processor as the OLED models, local dimming Dolby Vision and HDR10 +, it certainly seems well equipped. The renewed My Home Screen 5 is simpler and therefore even more accessible. The peak luminance on a 10% window comes out at 410 nits, which is below the 500 nits limit we set for clear HDR impact. However, what we noticed is that the feet have quite a bit of play when they are in place. In our other test pattern we get about 1280: 1 with local dimming.

Strangely, there is no “Movie” preset either. With “Sharp Movements” you win a little bit extra, but it costs you some clarity and shows a double contour around a moving object here and there. You can use the 'User' preset for this, activate 'bass-boost', and set 'Surround' to 'Cinema Surround'. The backlight is divided into 8 columns, Panasonic controls them very carefully and avoids that you have obvious segment gre nzen sees.