Buttons are large and well-labelled, with a big white Netflix button above a directional keypad that's all fairly intuitive. Most people find remote controls baffling and confusing, and while Panasonic's remote isn't the simplest, it has been designed with mass-appeal in mind. The remote is as simple as it could be, with a handy big Netflix button included I also noticed a touch of dot crawl around graphics during weather forecasts, and some grain in background during really bright scenes. However, news tickers work OK and are also easy to read.

There's also some motion blur – as there is on all LED TVs – during panning shots, and writing on billboards and credits at the end of movies become harder to read. I did notice some judder in the 32CS510's images, particularly during vertical panning, with the tightly packed lines of some railings becoming indistinguishable. It's an image that's surprisingly refined. OK, so it's not Full HD, but the 32CS510 downscales with little loss of clarity on this scale.Ĭontrast is impressive, too, with lots detail and gradation visible within areas of black that would look solid and impenetrable on most LED TVs. My calibration test disc revealed the 32CS510 to have vivid, well-saturated colours and excellent peak whites, while a play of Gravity on 2D Blu-ray showed-off enough fine detail to impress on the small screen. A good shortcut is to use the True Cinema setting and tweak from there. There's a choice of Dynamic, Cinema or True Cinema on the 32CS510, while a custom mode lets you tweak the white balance and the full suite of colours. With less upscaling to contend with, images are left looking clean, colourful and full of contrast.

It's hardly cutting edge in term of resolution, but the 32CS510 puts in a surprisingly impressive performance. The TX-32CS600 has a Full HD panel, though still doesn't include the new Firefox OS. Though 2014's TX-32AS600, TX-32AS500 and TX-32AS400 are still available, Panasonic's line-up for this year includes only one other 32-inch TV, which is pitched slightly above the mid-range TX-32CS510. On the opposite side of the TV is a recessed panel for hard-button controls for the TV's core functions. The side panel isn't much better, supplying only a headphones jack, a single USB slot and a Common Interface slot. Other slots back there include Ethernet LAN (despite the presence of a Wi-Fi module), an RGB Scart, component video inputs, left/right phonos, an optical digital audio output and an RF in to power the Freeview channels. How many HDMI inputs does one home need? More than the 32CS510 has, that's for sure.Īs if to underline that the 32CS510 is purely for use in a bedroom or kitchen, a rear panel offers a mere brace of HDMI inputs. Only two HDMI inputs? Is that enough in this day and age? With BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5 integrated into Freetime, it acts like a built-in YouView. There's a Freeview HD guide page provided on the TV too, though there's really no need to use it.ĭitto the BBC iPlayer app on the 32CS510's myHomeScreen platform. The chance to roll back through the TV schedules is excellent, and on the 32CS510 Freetime is completely integrated. The headline feature on the 32CS510 is undoubtedly Freetime, a smart TV guide from the makers of Freesat which provides a dynamic (and great-looking) platform offering catch-up TV for the last seven days across 26 channels. Overall dimensions are 734 x 437 x 69mm – this is a TV with a small footprint. The desktop stand is a cut-out, which helps give the 32CS510 a less plastic-dominated look than previous incarnations, but the overall look is no more than business-like. Around three sides is a gloss black bezel that measures a tiny 10mm, while on the bottom that increases to 20mm because of a metallic panel that stretches right across. Its 69mm depth isn't mould-breaking, but from the front it looks like a shrunken version of a high-end TV, which isn't at all usual at this level of the market.

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