Best Panasonic TV 2025: The best 4K TVs

The Panasonic Z95A is arguably its most important TV in a decade, and according to our reviewer, it turns out to be a brilliant TV.

It’s the first TV that Panasonic has sold in America since leaving the market several years ago, priced at $3199 / £3899 for the 65-inch screen. The 55-inch screen that’s also on this best list isn’t available in the United States.

The build quality is strong and impressive, with the central pedestal able to swivel if you want to position the TV away from any distracting lights in the room.

Panasonic’s My Home Screen interface is no longer support, with a move made to Amazon’s Fire TV. There’s a alrger amount of apps to access, and the smart features are improved with hands-free Alexa, Ring support, Apple Home and AirPlay support all included.

Freeview Play has been replaced by Freely, and like with the rest of its OLEDs, Panasonic has upped its performance in the gaming area with wide-ranging features that includes support for VRR (AMD and Nvidia), ALLM, and refresh rates up to 4K/144Hz. Input lag is 13ms, which puts it on par with its chief rivals.

When it comes to picture quality, the Z95A also comes with LG Display’s Micro Lens Array panel, with Panasonic adding its own customisations to tweak the screen. Our reviewer measured the peak brightness at 1700 nits on a 10% window, which is a huge number for an OLED and only bettered by a couple TVs on the market.

It’s a beautifully nuanced and accurate looking image, delivering a stunning level of precision, balance and insight. With support for HDR10, HLG, HDR10+ Adaptive and Dolby Vision IQ, the Z95A can deliver this level of picture performance with any HDR source. Motion is handled very well, but unlike our review for the 55-inch model, we did notice some banding with the 65-inch screen size.

The sound system carries both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X support, and we found it to be a powerful, big, and dynamic presentation. It’s an improvement on Panasonic’s previous flagship OLEDs, and will save you the cost of having to adding an external soundbar to this TV.

Though the Z95A from Panasonic represents a big change in its appeal to high-end TV customers by adopting a more mainstream approach.

Out goes Panasonic’s My Home Screen interface and in is Amazon’s Fire TV for the premium OLED models, and in switching to Fire TV, customers can access a bigger selection of apps, as well as having access to hands-free Alexa, Ring support, Apple Home and AirPlay support. It’s a much more fully featured TV than previous generations.

The Z95A also comes with the latest Micro Lens Array technology, with Panasonic adding its customisations. It is slightly brighter than the MZ2000 in hitting 1585 nits on a 5% HDR window, and that level of brightness is on part of an excellent overall image. Textures and skin tones look sublime, and issues with banding have all but disappeared, with specular highlights bright and precise. The Z95A delivering stunning picture quality across all sources.

When it comes it HDR support, the Z95A has HDR10, HLG, HDR10+ Adaptive and Dolby Vision IQ formats are supported. In terms of the audio performance, we found sound quality to be very impressive, with the Z95A delivering a powerful, clean and immersive sound.

Freeview Play has been replaced by Freely, and like with the rest of its OLEDs, Panasonic has upped its performance in the gaming area with its Game Mode Extreme dashboard that adds more useful features. Input lag is 12ms, and there’s support for VRR, ALLM, 4K/120Hz, although much like previous models, they’re only available on two HDMI inputs.

If you find that the Z95A is a) out of reach financially and b) you’d preferred to add your own sound system to a TV, the Z90A is your best bet in Panasonic’s OLED range.

It carries on from the MZ1500 that we liked so much from 2023, and similar to that screen, we found the picture performance to impress across all sources… aside from a few niggles we’d like to point out.

But first, the good stuff. The Z90A boasts a subtle, natural looking 4K HDR image with colours that are rich and expressive, high levels of fine detail brought out in films and TV series, and no gradation (smooth transitions between colours) or banding (noisy looking images) present.

We measured peak brightness at around 1000 nits, which is less than that of the MZ1500, and while those brightness levels are fine, highlights can look a little less intense than we think they ought to look. Motion processing is as strong as it’s ever been on Panasonic, if not better, with the Z90A showing fine stability with our test scenes.

Now onto those niggles. There is what appears to be some black crush (loss of detail) in darker scenes. Upscaling with lower quality sources isn’t as good as we’ve seen it on other brands’ TVs, and at wider angles there’s a green tint that appears, which affects the quality of the wide angles.

The sound system is pretty impressive. Bass is strong, the soundstage has width and height; while dialogue is clearly reproduced and there’s a good level of dynamism. A soundbar would produce a better performance, but we’re not in a rush to add one to the Z90A.

It no longer supports My Home Screen, switching instead to Fire TV, which brings a lot more apps and smarts to the Z90A. For gaming there’s an impressive list of features, but the main takeway is that the input lag has improved from 14.3ms to 12.7ms. A few niggles aside, the Z90A is an impressive all-round TV.