I missed out on the last Panasonic Plasmas. Huge mistake, major regret! I did buy the last Samsung Plasma. It is up at my lake place. I hope it lasts forever.
I think I could get the Kuro back buy getting my daughter a new set. But na.
I had Panasonic plasmas until I went to Oled. My 2017 LG Oled is fantastic (I did get screen burn but LG were very good to cheaply replace the panel - I am now very careful!). I love the 2017 LG. I also have a 2021 Philips Oled in the bedroom, which I hate. The remote is awful and the so-called intelligent picture processing produces bright but unrealistic pictures.
We have a Panasonic plasma in our family room, and it continues to provide excellent picture quality. Then there is the LG OLED at our condo, again fine picture quality, but we are none to keen on the UI. Finally a Sony OLED at our seasonal home, preferred over the Panasonic for sonics, over the LG for UI. Which is best, easy I prefer listening to music. The TVs are for occasional late night art house movies.
Update. The model year of a UK TV obviously dictates the UI and operation of the remote control. Back in 2017 the LG interface was brilliant (in the guide, as you placed the cursor over a TV programme the software displayed info about the programme (without shifting the guide itself)) - just what you’d want from it. A later model LG used a different, inferior, OS and the Philips is unusable rubbish.
My Viera is still going strong after many years of service.
A top of the line OLED is in my future, but not just yet.
I never use UI on any monitor. Never. Bah. The TV is a monitor, nothing more. But I see others struggle with theirs. I feed mine with a Anthem AVM60. Connected to the AVM60 I have a Firestick 4K, a DirecTV Genie, and an Oppo something or other.
I made the same mistake, but my Kuro keeps zipping right along. 
Agree, and by UI I was not clear, it is the Wii type remote which is hyperactive to the point of being a real source of frustration when selecting inputs. We pitched it and added Roku just to have a simplified remote that was reliable. The TV basically is for Blu-ray playback and streaming Criterion Channel.
Oh I have experienced that as well. My Anthem takes care of switching sources. I never touch the Sony remote as the DirecTV remote powers up the Sony. The only control it needs is power. Only one input is used.
Nice! Those TV’s were built like tanks. I also have a 37" Panasonic EDTV Plasma in the basement that is still going strong! Purchased in 2004.
I’ll never forget the phone call to Cleveland Plasma to ask his advice on buying a plasma or the newer LED’s. He said “You better jump on the plasma unless you want to be watching LED’s for the next 10 years!” So I hopped in the car and drove 3 hours to pick up one of the last Panasonic plasma’s I could find.
Seemed crazy at the time(typical head shake from the wife), but so thankful I did.
Another Betamax vs VHS market breakdown kind of thing…
The better (at the time) TVs just could not compete with the LED set’s pricing and volume running through the big-box stores.
I watch a lot of sports on the big screen, and I remember thinking at the time, LED TVs are awful for sports broadcasts.
I grabbed the Viera (last one they had in a box at the local Best Buy) just prior to the plasma TVs extinction event. IIRC, a key screen manufacture announce they were going to stop productions and that, as they say, was that.
Oh well, it seems like we now have even better options in the marketplace. But my research to date indicates not all TVs using OLEDs are created equal.
Cheers.
“This is the way”, if you can get everything wired and set up to take advantage of it.
Cheers.
My complaint with OLED is they don’t work like our brain and eye focus does. Or at least mine. We tend to focus om one object at different foal lengths at a time. With most models in the store evey thing at the same focal length at the distance iof the TV screen in super high definition. Thus it is sensory overload. You are not necessarily focused at what the cinematographer or director intended.
Maybe if I had one I could retrain my brain or I could turn it off inset controls like Al.
Thats an excellent observation of OLED.
Nothing’s worse than finding yourself focused on bad makeup or skin imperfections of one character and missing character interactions. All due to hyper digital upscaling.
Panasonic, LOL
I have one of the last 42” Panasonic plasmas. I replaced it with a 48” LG OLED. The 48” OLED’s frame dimensions is about the same as the 42” plasma. The OLED is a lot thinner.
How is picture quality between the two TV’s?
Both have great pictures and black levels but the 48’ Oled 4K is a better performer with Dolby Vision and HDR. I think the black levels are also deeper on the oled.