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Panasonic's Big New OLED Bets on Gaming Support

The 77-inch Panasonic 77Z8BA OLED television will feature Dolby Vision and 144Hz support.

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Panasonic has expanded its OLED TV lineup with the new 77Z8BA TV, which features Amazon's Fire TV smart system and 144Hz gaming support.

The company says the 77-inch 4K TV has an advanced HCX Pro AI Processor MK II, and a brighter OLED panel with Dolby Vision IQ Precision capability. It will also feature an ATSC 3.0 tuner -- one of the few TVs in 2025 that will -- for NextGen TV over-the-air broadcasts. 

Read more: Best OLED TVs

The company says its panel draws on years of Hollywood collaborations and is designed to be color accurate while also reducing artifacts like banding or streaming noise.

For gamers, the TV has a refresh rate up to 144Hz and boasts a "Game Mode Extreme" setting with both Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium support to match a game's frame rate exactly to the screen's. 

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The TV joins the Panasonic Z95B and earlier Z95A, and, if the Z95B demo I've seen is any indication, the 77Z8BA promises high-level audio and video performance.

The Panasonic 77Z8BA will be available for preorder on Oct. 27 and will go on sale in mid-November. Pricing has yet to be announced, but based on specs and size, I would anticipate it costing between $3,500 and $4,500.