Product Description

• Integrated Digital Tuner for DVB-T reception
• HD ready for the highest quality display of HDTV signals
• Digital Crystal Clear provides vivid cinema-like images
• 3D combfilter separates colours for a razor-sharp image
• Incredible Surround™ for enhanced audio enjoyment

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48743 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 26PFL5522D/10
• Released on: 2007-05-21

Manufacturer's Description
It produces brilliant flicker-free progressive scan pictures with optimum brightness and superb colours. This vibrant and sharp image will provide you with an enhanced viewing experience.

Integrated Digital Tuner for DVB-T reception

The integrated DVB-T tuner lets you receive Digital Terrestrial TV to watch or record. This means you do not need an additional set top box and also the additional cables.

HD ready for the highest quality display of HDTV signals

Enjoy the exceptional picture quality of a true High Definition TV signal and be fully prepared for HD sources like HDTV broadcast, Blu-ray DVD or HD-DVD. HD ready is a protected label that offers picture quality beyond that of progressive scan. It conforms to strict standards laid out by EICTA to offer a HD screen that displays the benefits of resolution and picture quality of a 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 720p and 1080i signals at 50 and 60Hz.

Digital Crystal Clear provides vivid cinema-like images

Digital Crystal Clear is a package of picture innovations that digitally adjusts and optimises picture quality to optimal contrast, colour and sharpness levels. It's like watching vivid cinema-like images.

3D combfilter separates colours for a razor-sharp image

The 3D comb filter separates brightness and colour signals better in 3D domain to eliminate cross-colour, cross-luminance and dot-crawl distortion - all of which detract from your viewing pleasure. The 3D digital comb filter performs field-by-field comparisons of the television image to accurately separate the colour from the black-and-white information and remove both horizontally and vertically hanging dots, as well as dot crawl. The result is a razor sharp image.

Incredible Surroundâ„¢ for enhanced audio enjoyment

Incredible Surround is an audio technology from Philips that dramatically magnifies the sound field to immerse you in the audio. Using state-of-the-art electronic phase shifting, Incredible Surround mixes sounds from left and right in such a way that it expands the virtual distance between the two speakers. This wider spread greatly enhances the stereo effect and creates a more natural sound dimension. Incredible Surround allows you to experience total surround with greater depth and width of sound, without the use of additional speakers.

Compact and slim design that fits in every room

This design style emphasizes a slim, compact look that saves space and fits in anywhere.

1000 page Hypertext for instant fast access to teletext

The teletext is a common system transmitted by most broadcasters. The 1000 page smart text feature gives you extremely fast access to information when changing pages.

2 HDMI inputs for full digital HD connection in one cable

HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen. By eliminating conversion to an analogue signal, it delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal reduces flicker and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI intelligently communicates the highest output resolution with the source device. The HDMI input is fully backward compatible with DVI sources but includes digital audio. HDMI uses HDCP copy protection. With 2 HDMI inputs you can connect multiple HD sources, for instance an HD set top box and a Blu-ray player. Your TV is fully prepared for the HD future.

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Customer Reviews

well done Philips!
I have now had this TV for about two months, and I am not disappointed. I took a gamble buying this TV as I could not find much info on it but luckily it worked out good. The weakest points of this set are probably the sound (not that I use the inbuilt speakers anyway. Why spend so much on a TV and let the sound ruin the experience when surround sound systems can be found cheaply) also the motion handling could be better but as I have learnt this should improve if using a HD source which I am not. The TV looks great and the remote does not let it down, the features are fine however a few more picture tweaking abilities in the menus would have been nice. The picture is bright and sharp and with movies normally you don't notice the motion handling it's only a problem with some sports so not a really problem. My favourite thing about this TV is its black levels and any one who has look at different lcd's knows this can be a big problem, with some sets the black just look dark blue not what I wanted and lucky this TV delivers. The connectivity is good and its base is a nice glass one which I didn't expect, so over all I'm very pleased and would recommend.

Where did my picture go?
Overall, I think the Philips 26PFL5522 isn't bad. The picture with Freeview is excellent, although with a normal analogue arial it could be better. Setting up the digital channels is easy, and it gives you the option to remove unwanted channels, or to re-order them so you can put your favourite channels all near each other.

I have found 3 problems with this TV, however.
1) The programme guide doesn't update automatically. For example, you might be watching a programme at 9pm and go to the programme guide to find it's still showing what was on at 1pm. Some channels do update, sometimes they don't.
2) I've had to retune the digital channels 5 times in 3 weeks. The BBC channels become very blocky and the sound disappears. Sometimes the programmes that share the Channel 5 multiplex take up to 45 seconds to appear. More 4 loses sound every 2 or 3 seconds. With 3 other Freeview boxes in the house that work fine I'm sure it's nothing to do with reception.
3) Three times I've turned it on from Standby to find only a blue screen. It requires turning off on the set, then turning it back on again.

Maybe it's just my set, but I'll be taking it back tomorrow. When it works, it works great. Problem 1 I can handle, but Problem 2 is annoying.

Great value - great picture
I knew that any new LCD TV was going to be an improvement on my very old Mitsubishi set but I had not expected it to be so good. The picture is very sharp with great colours. The remote is easy to use and the amount of picture 'tweeking'via the remote is more than good enough for me. I think that the sound quality is very good too but maybe this is because its in a small room. Before buying the Philips, I had looked at Panasonics but to be honest the difference in price was significant. I really do think that this TV is great value. It has great picture quality and is very stylish with a polish black surround and glass base. Also, Amazon are £130 cheaper than Tesco!!!