Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64323 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 37PFL5522D/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.

Pixel Plus HD for better details, depth and clarity

Pixel Plus HD is a picture processing technology that enables viewer to watch contents that are vivid, natural and real. The result is a superbly razor sharp pictures with incredible details and depth from any HD source.

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 emphasises 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

good all-rounder...
having lived with this 37" LCD tv for some months, I have nothing but praise for it. Its the first LCD TV I have owned, and i was not too sure just what to expect, but picture quality (after setting up) is first rate. picture geometry is always perfect, and image sharpness on freeview is 100%. My only downer is the sound quality... just not great at low volumes, but useable and par for the course as LCD TVs go. All in all, well up there with the Sonys and Panasonics top end gear.

Great picture but sound lets it down
Firstly, I took a risk buying this TV without reading any reviews as it has only just come out. The set itself is very attractive in gloss black. The picture quality is excellent in HD, this is helped by the 6ms response time. Colours are vibrant and rich. Black levels are good for an lcd of this size. More expensive sets could better it though. For the best performance stick to 1080p or 720p. Standard definition holds up well too. The sound quality is the only let down, often sounding too deep and difficult to pick out voices. However, if you're buying a screen of this size, chances are you'll be running it through a surround sound system anyway. All in all, very good for the money plus it displays 1080p!

PHILLIPS 37pfl5522
This set offers a lovely clean image free from blurring and digital artefacts, especially from DVD'S via HDMI (720p setting is best) and is a doddle to set up and use. I tweaked the screen using a THX test signal (contained on a lot of DVDS) to get the optimium settings for contrast etc - there are lots of settings to tweak the image although I have tried various combinations and found the best results were achieved through the above method).
SD broadcasts definately benefit from a decent arial feed and freeview digital TV images are far better than those of analogue broadcasts, with a sharper, more vibrant picture (although not quite as good as DVD images in my experience). The pixel plus 2 HD is permanently on so I am unable to offer any suggestion as to whether it is a bonus or hinderance to the image displayed. The set is easily wall mounted as well as having a robust, removable stand and build quality is excellent.
For anyone who has an ariel socket on the wall or who needs to connect an external device i would recommend upgrading the arial leads/scarts etc, using something like QED's ttv ariel lead, P21 scart, HDMI-P Lead - These kind of things make a substantial difference to the quality of the image, surprisingly so.

This is an excellent TV, outstanding value and heartily recommended.