In a perfect world (pah!) we’d be in a pub garden, but one thing the isolated life has taught us is to appreciate what we have at home… or highlight the need to upgrade it

WATCH LOADS OF TELLY THE PREMIUM OPTION

•Panasonic HZ1000

Panasonic has a fixation with bringing ‘Hollywood to your home’. Luckily, it’s less to do with institutionalised sexual harassment and more a focus on cinema-like picture quality. To achieve this, its cheapest OLED for 2020 has a new Filmmaker mode to show movies the way the director intended.

The HZ1000 has also been calibrated to meet the demands of major film studios, and to hammer this point home Pana recently took us to Pinewood… where we clapped eyes on this screen siren and quickly fell in love.

As well as all the usual HDR codecs, this is one of the first sets to support Dolby Vision IQ, which combines the dynamic metadata found in Dolby Vision content with an embedded sensor in the TV to optimise what you’re watching to suit the room environment.

from £1999 /panasonic.com

• • LG HU85LS CineBeam

The biggest challenge with this laser 4K projector is finding a wall big enough to accommodate the 120in display. The good news is you only need to place it 7in away. £4999 /lg.com

• • • Sennheiser Ambeo

Still the ultimate Atmos soundbar, Senny’s madly large Ambeo has a 13-driver array that negates the need for a sub and replicates surround-sound.

£2199 / sennheiser.com

Quantum peep

Samsung’s Quantum processor optimises the picture and even offers TV suggestions based on what you’ve been watching.

WATCH LOADS OF TELLY THE BARGAIN OPTION

•Samsung Q80R

As well as enjoying normal social lives, this time last year we were readying a Stuff five-star rating for this £2000 QLED from Samsung… and now you can pick one up for under a grand if you shop around. The sweet spot between value and top tech at the time of launch, the Q80R is a 55in 4K telly covering most of the coveted HDR codecs.

It’s a shame there’s no Dolby Vision, but then a grand off the price tag makes that easier to stomach. The Ultra Viewing Angle system brings remarkable off-axis gawping, and then there’s Samsung’s clean and stable Smart Things control app, plus Alexa and Google Assistant voice support.

An efficient upscaler from Full HD, the Q80R also gives gamers a sub-20ms response time, and there’s half-decent audio to boot.

£999 / samsung.com

• • ViewSonic M2 It’s only Full HD, but the M2 can be carried anywhere in the house for wireless screen mirroring and twilight cinema sessions. It also has Harman Kardon speakers.

£599 / viewsonic.com

• • • Vizio 2.0 Baby brother to one of our fave surround-sound systems, this is a bargain of a soundbar with DTS Virtual:X to give it some multidimensional beef, and built-in Bluetooth.

£89 / vizio.com

Blank expression

Giving it a rest? Ambient mode allows you to replace the black ‘off’ screen with something to match your room’s decor.

Hidden Netflix

In danger of ‘finishing Netflix’?

There are thousands of genre codes to unearth hidden shows that don’t come up on your highlighted list. Google ‘Netflix codes’ to learn how to dip into everything from ‘cult horror movies’ to ‘French films’. You’ll need to input the codes into Netflix through a web browser.

STREAMING STARS

•Disney+

We had our doubts about the need for a dedicated Disney streaming service, but factor in the sheer scale of content available from Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic, and the choice borders on bewildering. Plus, the price of seeing all the Avengers movies on-demand elsewhere arguably makes it worth the money alone.

If you don’t consider any of these to be your ‘universe’, there’s a free seven-day trial to help you discover one, plus an intuitive app and UI available across multiple platforms and devices to help you browse.

£5.99/m / disneyplus.com

THE KILLER SHOW

The World According to Jeff Goldblum

Like a Louis Theroux series, only the presenter is stranger than the subject matter: the Jurassic Park star goes in search of the conventional in his own unconventional style. Sneakers, tattoos and gaming are among the topics covered in a first series where it feels as though Jeff has turned up, Googled it and relied on his charm to get by.