Product Description

Digital TV does not get much better than this! This Flat TV has Pixel Plus for breathtaking natural pictures, Active Control for optimum brightness and Electronic Program Guide for digital TV, all combined in a contemporary design. PRODUCT FEATURES: Vivid

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42810 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 26PF5521D/10
• Released on: 2006-03-10
• Dimensions: 45.59 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

The Philips 26PF5521D/10 26-inch HDTV-ready LCD TV with in-built Digital TV tuner has more than just great looks. The perfect display provides an excellent audio/visual experience with features like Crystal Clear, Active Control, Virtual Dolby Surround, and unique flat speakers.

LCD WXGA display, 1366 x 768p
This WXGA display with state-of-the-art LCD screen technology gives you widescreen HD resolution of 1366 x 768p pixels. 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 DVB-T tuner
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 or additional cables.

HD Ready
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 HDVD. 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 an 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
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.

Dynamic contrast enhancer
You want the LCD flat display with the highest contrast and most vibrant images even at wide viewing angle. The Philips dynamic contrast enhancer uses video processing and unique dimming backlight technology. This delivers deep rich black levels with increased detail. The dimming backlight increases the contrast up to 5 times*, and at the same time improves the viewing angle. It gives a bright, lifelike picture with high contrast and vibrant colours, (* factor between 2 and 5, screen type and picture content dependant). 

Virtual dolby surround
Virtual Dolby Surround is a processing technology for enhancing surround sound effects. Built-in flat speakers (5 watts per channel) sit on either side of the LCD WXGA Active Matrix TFT screen, giving you full stereo sound without needing to connect to an external speaker system. Virtual Dolby Surround sound support simulates cinema surround sound effects without the need for rear speakers. Philips' Smart Listening auto volume leveling eliminates drastic volume spikes while changing channels or when channels go to a commercial break.

Watch Analogue Record Digital
HDMI input
HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen. By eliminating any conversion to an analogue signal, it delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal delivers reduced flicker and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI will intelligently communicate 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.

Large Viewing Angle
Other features include 176-degree horizontal and 176-degree vertical viewing angles, 100 preset channels, Autostore for easy tuning, Auto Picture (five modes give you picture settings for different types of programming), Auto Sound (four modes to tailor the TV sound to enhance what you're watching), multi-language onscreen display, sleep timer, integrated DIGITAL tuner, and RF jack for analogue terrestrial reception, ergonomic remote control, and an anti-reflective screen.

Want to do more than just watch TV? The 26PF5521D/10 has 2 rear SCART sockets, and a component input that helps minimize digital and line-scan artifacts during DVD playback. And, because the TV is progressive scan, it can take advantage of the more film-like images produced by progressive-scan DVD players. A set of side jacks has a composite A/V input with S-video, a mini headphone jack, and an audio in for using the TV's speakers with your PC.

Customer Reviews

Great TV, great price
I needed a TV to replace my behemoth 32" CRT telly which, with it's 100Hz picture was a pleasure to watch, especially with the recent addition of a digital feed. The problem? It was the size of Wembley Stadium in my lounge and downsizing to a 26" flatscreen was the logical and most economic solution.

Believe it or not, the Philips was chosen more out of brand loyalty than anything else. I know, it's a really bad way of choosing a TV, but I have to say I'm mildly pleased with my choice.

Although this is a HD-ready TV, I have no HD sources as yet to put it through it's paces. Also, there's a Freeview tuner, and again I haven't been able to try that because I'm using NTL digital as my TV source.

With the sources available - digital cable, DVD, PS2 and analogue cable - I'm finding it hard to fault the picture. Only with analogue TV does the LCD betray itself with slight grain to the image that ordinarily would not be visible on a traditional set. Because of the built in Freeview tuner, I imagine this will never be a problem for most. Fast moving, contrasty images leave no ghosting whatsoever, and any digital processing going on remains thankfully invisible. If there is a niggle, it would be that the TV ever so slightly adjusts the picture brightness depending on the scene. It's a minor point, but there nonetheless.

Like many TVs this offers virtual surround sound, and like many TVs it's not that good - the weedy 5W speakers don't help either. But for the size of screen and the type of room the TV is aimed at, it's perfectly adequate.

This TV has a good range of inputs. Starting with the RF input, twin scarts accompany twin HDMI ports, and there's component input as well as S-Video/L-R audio input. The TV can output it's Freeview signal via RGB scart and SP/DIF for recording purposes.

Overall, I'm enjoying my purchase and would recommend this TV to anyone.

Great Value, Excellent Product
Having spent several weeks deciding which HDTV to purchase, I finally decided to invest in this Philips 26'' TV. It came well packaged, and was very easy to set up with both on screen, and written instructions.

I have tested the TV with PS2, DVD via Philips HDTV DVD Player with Video Upscaling, and also via the internal freeview tuner.

Both the PS2 and Freeview gave excellent results, with the picture being clear, sharp, and colours well balanced. The anti-glare coating on the screen is excellent also.

The DVD gave the best results, with up to 400% zoom capacity, the TV gave exceptional image reproduction.

The TV is both excellent value, and a fantastic product, and I would highly recommend it for purchase for both a lounge, or bedroom area.

Excellent Product
Firstly, superb service from Amazon. Ordered in the evening of 20th December, arrived 9am on the 22nd.

The product itself is very sleek, and looks excellent amongst my other electronic goods. The quality of the picture is top notch. HD so far has only been tested on my Xbox 360, however is superb! Non HD picture (Freeview and DVD) is also excellent.

One point on Freeview. I was told that in my area that I could not expect to get many of the channels due to lack of signal, interferance etc. However the integrated Freeview that comes with this set has provided me with all available channels! An excellent little bonus.

To summarise, for the price I don't think there is anything better about at the moment.