After a few years of absence from the U.S. market, Panasonic made the decision to release three models in 2024. These include the Mini-LED Panasonic W95A, the step-down WOLED Panasonic Z85A OLED, and this TV, the flagship Panasonic Z95A OLED. This model uses a WOLED panel with an MLA brightness-boosting layer, so it's a direct competitor to the LG G4 OLED.
The TV is loaded with modern features like HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two ports, 4k @ 144Hz, and support for all VRR technologies. The TV uses Panasonic's HCX Pro AI Processor MK II that can analyze the content you're watching to automatically adjust colors, clarity, contrast, and sound. It runs the Fire TV OS and has support for Alexa and Apple AirPlay, with hands-free voice control thanks to the built-in mic. It features a unique 5.1 speaker system and soundbar built-in to the TV, tuned by Panasonic's own Technics speaker division. It's only available in a 65-inch size.
Our Verdict
The Panasonic Z95A is an impressive choice for a variety of uses. Its modern gaming features and smooth motion make it an excellent match for the latest consoles and PCs. Its outstanding performance with HDR content makes it equally suited for home theater setups, helped by its fantastic upscaling and PQ EOTF tracking performance. Its SDR brightness and reflection handling are good enough to fend off glare in well-lit rooms. Plus, its remarkably wide viewing angle means everyone gets a clear view, making it ideal for hosting sports watch parties.
Near-infinite contrast ratio for perfect blacks with no blooming around bright highlights.
Incredibly wide viewing angle for a consistent image from the sides.
Decent SDR brightness and excellent reflection handling makes it suitable for a bright room.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate, especially in HDR.
Excellent HDR peak brightness that makes highlights pop.
The Panasonic Z95A is excellent for a home theater setup. It delivers true blacks with no blooming, and its very good HDR peak brightness makes highlights pop in both movies and shows. Colors look vibrant and lifelike in HDR, with great overall accuracy. Its strong image processing capabilities ensure a clean picture even when watching lower-quality, low-resolution content, and HDR content shows minimal banding, although there's some if you look closely. Unfortunately, its near-instantaneous response time introduces some noticeable stutter in movies and TV shows.
Near-infinite contrast ratio for perfect blacks with no blooming around bright highlights.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate, especially in HDR.
Excellent HDR peak brightness that makes highlights pop.
Does an excellent job upscaling and cleaning up low-quality content.
Noticeable stutter due to the TV's fast response time.
The Panasonic Z95A performs well in bright environments, thanks to its relatively high SDR brightness for an OLED. It's bright enough to handle a well-lit room and effectively diminishes the intensity of reflections—like a lamp facing the screen—so you're not distracted by unwanted glare. In bright rooms, you sacrifice some of the signature deep black levels that OLEDs are known for, as the TV's black levels raise in brighter environments, but they remain sufficiently dark so that the image doesn't appear washed out. That said, colors aren't as vivid as they are in a dark room.
Decent SDR brightness and excellent reflection handling makes it suitable for a bright room.
Ambient light causes colors to lose vibrancy.
Ambient light causes black levels to raise somewhat, reducing the impact an OLED can have.
The Panasonic Z95A is a great choice for sports enthusiasts. Its exceptionally wide viewing angle ensures everyone sees a clear image, even from the sides, making it ideal for group viewing. With strong brightness and glare handling, it easily combats reflections during those bright Sunday afternoon NFL matchups. You won't be distracted by the dirty screen effect in areas of uniform color, allowing you to stay immersed in the action. It also handles low-quality content well and excels at upscaling lower resolutions, resulting in a sharp, clean picture. Plus, thanks to its near-instantaneous response time, there's virtually no blur behind fast-moving players and objects.
Incredibly wide viewing angle for a consistent image from the sides.
Decent SDR brightness and excellent reflection handling makes it suitable for a bright room.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate, especially in HDR.
Does an excellent job upscaling and cleaning up low-quality content.
Ambient light causes colors to lose vibrancy.
The Panasonic Z95A excels as a gaming TV, thanks to its near-instantaneous response time and low input lag, which create a highly responsive experience. It also supports VRR for minimal screen tearing, and its vibrant, well-saturated colors make your favorite games look stunning. This is especially true in HDR, as its HDR brightness is impressive, so highlights in HDR titles truly stand out, with vibrant colors. The TV's 'True Game' Picture Mode feature doesn't sacrifice overall picture quality. If you're a PC gamer, it also supports up to 4k @ 144Hz. The only real downside is that it only has two high-bandwidth HDMI ports, one of which is also the eARC port, so it can be a bit tricky to connect everything if you have multiple consoles.
Very low input lag for a very responsive experience, although slower at 60Hz.
Nearly instantaneous response time for no noticeable blur behind fast motion.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate, especially in HDR.
Excellent HDR peak brightness that makes highlights pop.
Only two HDMI 2.1 ports, one of which is also the eARC port.
The Panasonic Z95A has very good brightness overall. It's bright enough in HDR to make highlights pop, especially when set against its perfect black levels. It's also decently bright in SDR, certainly enough to look good in well-lit rooms.
Decent SDR brightness and excellent reflection handling makes it suitable for a bright room.
Excellent HDR peak brightness that makes highlights pop.
Being that the Panasonic Z95A is an OLED, it has outstanding black levels. Blacks are deep and inky when viewed in a dark room, with no blooming around bright highlights.
Near-infinite contrast ratio for perfect blacks with no blooming around bright highlights.
The Panasonic Z95A has great colors overall, especially in HDR, leading to a vibrant presentation when watching HDR content. Unfortunately, its color volume in SDR is decidedly less impressive, although it's decent enough for most people, and thankfully, it's very accurate in SDR even without calibration. It's also quite accurate in HDR, so most color purists won't feel the need to resort to a professional calibrator to get the most out of their TV.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate, especially in HDR.
Note: We're in the process of improving our tests related to image processing, but this score should give you a general idea of how a TV performs overall with its image processing capabilities.
The Panasonic Z95A offers great all-around image processing. Its low-quality content smoothing is good enough to remove most macro-blocking from streaming content, and its upscaling performance is oustanding; SD content is very crisp on this TV. HDR color gradients exhibit minimal banding, although there are some if you look closely enough. Finally, the TV is fantastic when it comes to following the content creator's intent.
Does an excellent job upscaling and cleaning up low-quality content.
The Panasonic Z95A has outstanding responsiveness while using the 'True Game' Picture Mode. It delivers crisp motion due to its almost instant pixel transitions, gaming feels responsive thanks to its incredibly low input lag, and it supports all three commonly used VRR formats. That said, there's some minor inverse ghosting in darker titles, which is unusual for an OLED, and its input lag at 60Hz is very good but not nearly as fast as on 120Hz and 144Hz.
Very low input lag for a very responsive experience, although slower at 60Hz.
Nearly instantaneous response time for no noticeable blur behind fast motion.
Only two HDMI 2.1 ports, one of which is also the eARC port.
We're in the process of fixing the way we evaluate a TV's overall motion handling. This section is currently broken, and the score isn't indicative of how well a TV handles motion overall.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Sep 04, 2025:
We retested the TV's input lag at 60Hz with the 60Hz Refresh Mode setting enabled and confirmed that the setting reduces input lag at that refresh rate. We updated the results in the Input Lag section.
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Updated Sep 03, 2025:
Mentioned the newly reviewed Panasonic Z95B OLED in the HDR Brightness section.
- Updated May 08, 2025: Converted to Test Bench 2.0.1. We did this to fix an issue with our scoring in the Supported Resolutions section, since TVs with a refresh rate higher than 144Hz were being penalized for not supporting 144Hz.
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Updated Mar 26, 2025:
We confirmed the TV supports ATSC 3.0 after firmware update RS8112/2491 and updated the results and text in the Input Specifications section of the review to reflect that.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch Panasonic Z95 (65Z95AP), which is the only size available. There's no difference in performance in other regions, but the inputs vary depending on regional requirements for tuners.
| Size | Model Code |
| 65" | TV-65Z95AP |
Our unit was manufactured in July 2024, as seen on the label.
Popular TV Comparisons
The Panasonic Z95A is one of the best TVs on the market in 2024, with very few direct competitors. Its closest competitor, the LG G4 OLED, is slightly better overall, but the differences are very minor. The Sony A95L OLED also delivers slightly better picture quality thanks to its better QD-OLED panel, but again, the differences are minor. Those three models trade blows in terms of picture quality, with all three offering a fantastic overall viewing experience, but Panasonic's processing and smart features are slightly worse overall.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best OLED TVs, the best gaming TVs, and the best TVs for watching movies.
The Panasonic Z95B OLED offers a nice upgrade over the Panasonic Z95A OLED. The Z95B is brighter overall, so it offers brighter highlights in HDR and overcomes a bit more glare in bright rooms. The Z95B displays a wider range of colors, making them look brighter and punchier. Other advantages that the Z95B offers is better low-quality content smoothing, slightly better accuracy overall, and lower input lag.
The Sony A95L OLED is slightly better than the Panasonic Z95A OLED, but you can't go wrong with either one. The Sony has better processing, resulting in smoother gradients in HDR with less banding, and it smooths out low-quality content better. The Sony also delivers better color volume, and colors aren't as washed out in bright scenes.
The LG G4 OLED and the Panasonic Z95A OLED are extremely similar overall, and it's difficult to recommend one over the other. The LG gets slightly brighter with most real content, and it has better low-quality smoothing, but the Panasonic has slightly better upscaling and sharpness processing. The design and smart interface are the biggest differences between these two TVs, so you should get the model with the interface and design that works best for your usage.
The Panasonic Z85A OLED and the Panasonic Z95A OLED are very similar overall, but the Z95A is a good step up. The Z95A is considerably brighter in HDR. While this difference isn't noticeable with the majority of HDR content, bright scenes, and small specular highlights are considerably brighter on the Z95A. The Z95A also offers a higher 144Hz refresh rate for gamers. While this doesn't currently matter for console gamers, it's a definite advantage for PC gamers.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
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