The whole smart experience is easy to use and has a nice graphical interface that the whole family will be able to get to grips with.

Panasonic TX-50MX650B, 50 Inch 4K Ultra HD LED Smart TV, High

The backlight was uniform in these conditions with strong black levels, good sharpness and believable skin tones. The main benefit of a smart TV is access to a large number of channels that offer TV programmes, movies, and music without the need to connect a TV antenna or subscribe to a cable/satellite service. Artefacts were kept to a minimum with good SD content and the HD channels didn’t highlight any issues at all. We avoid Intelligent Frame Creation with all film and drama content and in our case, didn’t find that anything over low for sports material was required. Detail levels are high by Full HD standards, with all of the grime and sweat visible on Bond’s face in the aftermath of Quantum Of Solace’s opening car chase.

Given the size of the panel unless you are sat dead-on there was also no real stereo separation to be had.

Panasonic adds the affordable JX600 to its 4K TV line-up Panasonic adds the affordable JX600 to its 4K TV line-up

Motion is usually an issue with LCD TVs and the CX680 with IFC turned off displayed around 350 lines on our motion test pattern.

There are smarts in the form of ‘Hey Google’ or Alexa for control of the TV through a connected voice assistant-enabled device. Given that we have only reviewed a couple of HDTVs so far this year gives you an idea of where the market is heading for TVs.