LCD TVs Philips

Flat 42" LCD TV Ambilight Spectra with Active Glass Frame and sensorial halo

The sensorial halo of Ambilight Spectra extends the light and atmosphere of the image far outside the screen. You feel fully immersed in the images; it adds a magical dimension to the viewing experience. The Aurea has a high-quality design with a unique edge-to-edge front cut from a single piece of crystalline glass. The Active Frame transforms from a stylish design object into a lively sensation of colour and light. Over 150 power LEDs positioned around the screen create a soft, multicoloured halo directly enveloping the screen and flowing seamlessly onto the wall.

Perfect Pixel HD Engine for unrivalled sharpness and clarity

Perfect Pixel HD Engine offers the unique combination of ultimate sharpness, natural detail, vivid colours and smooth natural motion on all qualities of HD, standard TV signals and multimedia content, for high-definition displays. Each pixel of the incoming picture is enhanced to better match the surrounding pixels, resulting in a more natural picture. Artefacts and noise in all sources from multimedia to standard TV and also in highly compressed HD content are detected and reduced, ensuring that the picture is clean and razor sharp.

HD ready 1080p for highest quality display of Full HD images

Enjoy the exceptional picture quality of Full High Definition TV signals of HD sources like HDTV broadcast, or Blu-ray DVD. HD ready 1080p is a protected label that offers picture quality far beyond that of ordinary HD Ready. It conforms to strict standards laid out by EICTA to offer a Full HD screen that displays the benefits of resolution and picture quality of a Full HD 1920x1080p High Definition TV signal. It has a universal connection for both analogue YPbPr and uncompressed Digital connection of DVI or HDMI, supporting HDCP. It can display 1080p progressive signals at 24, 50 and 60Hz.

Perfect Natural Motion for ultra-smooth Full HD movies

Philips invented Perfect Natural Motion to eliminate juddering effects that are visible with movie-based picture content. Perfect Natural Motion estimates motion in the picture and corrects juddering movements in both broadcast and recorded movie material (such as DVD and Blu-ray Disc). Perfect Natural Motion results in even smoother and quieter pictures with excellent sharpness. Perfect Natural Motion removes judder from SD and HD pictures, including 1080p movies and 24p True Cinema, for a motion performance that surpasses the cinema!

100Hz Clear LCD, 2ms performance for superb motion sharpness

100Hz Clear LCD creates extreme motion sharpness for clear and vibrant images even with fast on-screen motion. The Double Frame Rate Insertion works with a high 100Hz refresh rate. It increases the sharpness of motion reproduction to more than twice that of conventional LCD, resulting in performance with a response time of 2 milliseconds (measured in Perceived Blur-Edge-Width; BEW). This unique Philips technology brings motion sharpness of LCD displays to an unprecedented level.

2250 trillion colours processing

Vibrant and natural images from most advanced colour processing. The 17 bit colour booster optimises each of the 3 colour channels (RGB), a total processing power of 2250 trillion colours. It produces more vibrant colours while retaining excellent sharpness. The advanced algorithms detect skin tones and subtle colour shades, and processes these to give most natural colours.

Dynamic contrast 30000:1 for incredible rich black details

You want the LCD flat display with the highest contrast and most vibrant images. Philips advanced video processing combined with unique extreme dimming and backlight-boosting technology results in vibrant images. Dynamic Contrast will increase the contrast with excellent black level and accurate rendition of dark shades and colours. It gives a bright, lifelike picture with high contrast and vibrant colours.
Easy to connect and enjoy

DLNA PC network link to browse PC and Home network content

The PC-Network link provides easy access to personal Photo and Music content on your PC or Home Network. It uses the Ethernet (LAN) connection with DLNA protocol that assures that DLNA certified products will work together seamlessly. By connecting your TV to your home network you will be able to access information from all DLNA certified devices. Browse your PC collection of digital photographs, and music files via your home LAN network. The intuitive user interface of the TV makes it available at the push of a button

4 HDMI inputs (3+1) + HDMI CEC

EasyLink uses the HDMI CEC industry standard protocol to share functionality between connected devices and the TV. With Easylink only one remote control is needed to operate main functionalities on your TV and connected devices. HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen for the ultimate picture quality. HDMI uses HDCP copy protection. With 3 HDMI inputs on the back and 1 HDMI on the side of the TV you can connect multiple HD sources, for instance an HD set-top box, a Blu-ray player, and Game Console or Digital Camcorder.

MPEG4 HDTV reception via DVB-T and DVB-Cable tuner

The Full HD screen has the widescreen resolution of 1920 x 1080p. This is the highest resolution of HD sources for the best possible picture quality. HDTV allows you to receive high definition terrestrial broadcast content via the built-in tuner. It supports DVB-Terrestrial and DVB-Cable signals for both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats. You will get exceptional picture and sound quality without an additional set-top box. *Available for selected counties or providers only