Product Description

• Full HD LCD display, with a 1920x1080p resolution
• 28.9 billion colors for brilliant natural images
• Dynamic contrast 50000:1
• Invisible speakers with incredible surround
• 2.1 channel surround with subwoofer for deep bass

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45759 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 42PFL5604H/10
• Released on: 2009-03-24
• Dimensions: 27.24" h x 40.71" w x 10.63" l, 44.09 pounds
• Display size: 42

Features

• 42" Diagonal Screen Size (inch)
• Analogue & Freeview Tuner
• Smartext with EPG
• Incredible Surround
• 24p ( Frames Per Second)

Manufacturer's Description
Brilliant design and powerful performance
Experience brilliant performance with a Full HD 1080p display featuring the powerful Pixel Plus HD Engine, 28.9 billion colours, 50,000:1 contrast ratio, fantastic 2 x 10w invisible sound and great connectivity with 2 x SCARTs, 3 x HDMIs, USB and VGA inputs. With a 5ms response time the Philips 5 series is the fastest LCD in its category ensuring smooth and judder free images

Pixel Plus is state of the art picture processing. The unique picture quality settings for sharpness, colour, contrast and motion are based on 2 decades of sophisticated engineering and are real time actively controlled to ensure the optimum picture quality is achieved at all times from any source. The Pixel Plus engine also up -scales standard signals and can handle all input signals up to 1080p 60Hz displaying them on a Full HD display with 6.2 Million pixels.

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 are detected and reduced ensuring that the picture is clean and razor sharp.

Full HD LCD Display
Be part of a cinematic viewing experience. 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.

It is fully future proof as it supports 1080p signals from all sources, including the most recent like Blu-ray and advanced HD game consoles. The signal processing is extensively upgraded to support this much higher signal quality and resolution.

It produces brilliant flicker-free progressive scan pictures with superb brightness and colours.

28.9 Billion Colours
Vibrant and natural images from most advanced colour processing. The 3 colour channels (RGB) are optimized using 10 bit resolution, a total processing power of 28.9 billion colours. It produces vibrant colors while retaining excellent sharpness. The advanced algorithms detect subtle colour shades , skin tones and processes these to give most natural colours.

Dynamic Contrast Ratio
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 colors. It gives a bright, lifelike picture with high contrast and vibrant colors.

The sharpness of the image is due to the 6.2 million pixels, while fast moving objects will remain in focus because of the 5ms response time, ensuring vivid colours and contrast.

Invisible Speakers: Sound Wattage 20w
An invisible sound system that blends perfectly with the design of the cabinet. The Incredible Surround allows you to experience total surround with greater depth and width of sound without compromising on the performance.

It gives a clear and spacious sound stage complementary to the rich viewing experience which provides fantastic sound and booming bass.

This 2.1 channel surround with integrated subwoofer is a complete sound system that utilises Philips incredible surround sound processing technology. It amplifies the bass frequencies from the subwoofer and at the same time optimzing mid and low frequencies. The result is a system that powerfully reproduces the full range of audio frequencies from deep bass to crystal clear high notes.

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. Your TV is fully prepared for the HD future.

One UX
Get started quickly by taking advantage of our simplicity set up process which is a fresh, clean and modern User Interface that’s simple, easy to navigate.

The benefits of the embedded user manual include; it's Eco friendly: save up to 1400 pages of an A% manual; cost and clutter reduction for the user; you'll never lose your manual; direct RC key (and accessible on home screen); direct swap TV to last U.M. page; set to your language of choice; it has 28 languages in all; high appreciation in consumer test; and it has a back-up.

Philips goes green
By targeting these focal areas (see right) Philips continues to take the lead on sustainability. In 2009 Philips has introduced e-stickers, e-user manuals and improved power consumption. This has resulted in less paper being used and a market leading 0.15w power usage in standby mode.