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david katz minor from cnet here and this is panasonic tc-p 65w t600 this is a 65 inch LCD TV and it's Panasonic's first with 4k resolution that means this gigantic screen has four times the number of pixels as a standard 1080p TV I'll get to that a little bit but first also like to mention is TVs other distinguishing characteristic it's the first on the market with an HDMI 20 compatible input that means that some of the higher frame rate formats that are going to come out in conjunction with 4k will work with this TV no other TV has that right now although some are promising upgradeability in the future in addition to that 4k HDMI and a DisplayPort that's 1.2 compatible this set has three standard HDMI inputs three USB s and an analog input the styling on the WT 600 stands out as well you've got a silver bezel around the edge relatively thin you've also got a unique ribbon style silver stand here it doesn't allow the TV to swivel but all told the real impression is lots of silver one thing that i did find pretty chintzy though on the bottom there's a little piece of plastic that makes the TV again look a little bit cheaper than it should for such an expensive television panasonic through and a bunch of extras on this TV of course you get a built-in camera you also get 3d compatibility although it's active not passive 3d panasonic throws in a pair of 3d glasses you also get a full suite of Smart TV apps and features and unfortunately panasonic also pushes ads on the screen itself in form of popups you can disable those pop-ups however so I recommend you do when you get this television another external awt 600 is a pair of remotes there's a standard clicker with a bunch of buttons and a touchpad based remote with just a few one of the advantages of touchpad remote is that you can use the built-in web browser a lot easier panasonic also touts 4k resolution on the web browser but in practice really didn't find that made much of a difference and that's the story with 4k in general on this TV at this size when we put it next to a 65-inch 1080p TV and send it essentially the same sources one in 4k one in 1080p it was really hard to tell the difference it was also hard to tell the difference we sent both tvs standard 1080p sources from a blu-ray and again since 4k sources are so rare you're mostly going to be feeding is TV 1080p for the foreseeable future aside from resolutions TV delivers a pretty good picture although not quite as good some of the better lcds we've tested it's black levels are pretty good but there was some blooming that we saw color accuracy was excellent it's bright room picture led by this anti-glare screen is one of the best we've tested those good points aside where were 4k really isn't worth the extra money I'd say wait if you want to get a TV with this resolution for a couple of years when it's prices are a lot closer to those a 1080p tvs that's a quick look at Panasonic's WT 604 k 65 inch LCD TV i'm david katz meijer