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Panasonic's shift to a specially created TV version of Firefox for its smart TV interface turns out to be a masterstroke, enabling Panasonic to combine a beautifully designed interface with oodles of handy customisability and a rich world of content that can only grow further given the relatively open, already well-supported nature of the Firefox platform.
Panasonic's new 'smart' remote control design - which ships alongside a decent if rather button-heavy normal remote - is a big improvement over the brand's previous smart remote control efforts.
Sound Performance
The 50CX802 is a mixed bag sonically.
In the plus column it can go reasonably loud without losing clarity, its mid-range is expansive enough to render voices believably even during dense sequences, and there's enough detail in the mix to make movie mixes feel involving and alive.
The 50CX802 doesn't do bass as convincingly or deeply as some rival high-end TVs though, and the lack of any forward facing speakers can leave the audio sounding a bit hemmed in at times.
Value
This is to some extent the 50CX802's ace in the hole. It's really great value for such an accomplished, feature-rich TV, especially when compared with similarly high level TVs from Sony and Samsung.
Those rival TVs have slightly showier, more dynamic pictures, but the 50CX802 delivers a key attraction of its own by giving the most subtly coloured, detailed and frankly plasma-like pictures seen from an LCD TV to date.
