Philips 52PFL7422D/37 52" LCD TV

Philips 52PFL7422D review

Posted Dec 12, 2007 - I got this HDTV model at a great price directly from PHILIPS and it is from a tier-one manufacturer (LG-PHILIPS) Been happy with it so far. HDTV picture looks stunning,Analog TV is OK Updating the firmware is a breeze, just download the firmware onto a usb stick, put it in the USB slot on the TV and the tv update itself in a few minutes and you are good to go. You can either go with the few factory settings to adjust the picture quality or play around until you are satisfied with your custom settings HD/Blue Ray DVD's look great, I hooked up this TV to my home theater I was unable to connect my computer to the TV because this TV takes DVI and my computer does not have a DVI. As an interim I had to buy a converter/special cable to hookup the computer to the TV. The TV remote looks and feels cheap at best. I do not use it at all and programmed my universal remote. The most annoying feature for me is: When trying to adjust the picture quality (Brigthness,color etc.) the settings display occupies the whole screen, so you do not know what the new setting will look like until you come out of that menu.It's like trying to find something in a dark room when the Power goes out during the night. I do not know what the engineers at Philips were thinking, I placed a call with PHILIPS and was informed that that how it works.

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Posted Nov 20, 2007 - For the money, this is a great TV! It has a great automatic setup feature. During setup, the TV shows you a series of split screen images and different audio tracks and you select the one you perfer. HD and XBOX360 images are excellent on this TV. SDTV is okay. The audio lacks bass so be prepared to spend additional money on a receiver and speakers.

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Posted Feb 8, 2008 - Overall, a fantastic TV for the money and for the category! Since I use a universal remote anyway, the remote it came with was a trivial issue in the long run. This TV has an impressive glass stand that locks into the back of the TV for support, very substantial & sturdy. This will grow with our family for years to come with all the features such as "Child Lock", PIN Code for certain channel access, etc!

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Philips 52PFL7422D LCD HDTV 52" Flatscreen

Posted Feb 17, 2008 - Very pleased with this TV. Picture quality is absolutely the best I have seen bar none. Don't bother with ambilight, Too overpriced, and I don't think you really need it. I was going to go for it, but glad I didn't. I didn't think the menu screens were all that annoying, Tv is easy to set up it is rather heavy, at 125lbs, and takes 2 people to get it up on the wall. Once mounted on the wall, the jacks are not all that easy to get to, so it is best to make your connections before putting it on the wall. Internal speakers plain suck. They distort very easily at volume level of about 50%. If you really want good sound you have to hook up some kind of external speakers. TV has 2 analog (line level) outputs you can run to an external amp or even external powered computer speakers (even those sounded better than what came with the tv) Biggest gripe here, is that you can't mute the sound coming out of this jack with the remote. Headphone jack is the same way. What this thing really needs, is an External speaker output that is hooked into the mute feature on the TV. That way you could simply add a regular pair of UNPOWERED speakers, which would be completely controlled through the TV but you would get 100% better sound. I think they kind of missed the boat here. It has a digital audio output also, but I haven't figured out how to hook that up. I tried it on my digital coaxial input on my amp, and got nothing, so that might take a special input on your amplifier. Mine obviously doesn't have the proper input for this. Everything else about this TV I absolutely LOVE. Do yourself a favor too, if you can go for the 52" over the 47" do it. You will not be sorry you did. This thing is freakin incredible.

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Beautiful Television!

Posted Feb 11, 2008 - This is my first LCD HD television, and I have no regrets about this purchase. I was fairly pleased with the analog signal, but when I was finally switched over to HDTV after the first week, I was absolutely stunned. This TV really needs to be used for HD, as the size of screen is unforgiving to the analog picture, and I was amazed at the clarity of images. While there are certainly newer televisions boasting faster refresh rates, for the price and picture quality, I am very pleased.

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Phillips 52PFL7422D/37 52 nice TV

Posted Apr 30, 2008 - Over all, I think the TV is great, Costco just dropped the price by a 100$ so now you can get this for 1899$ and if you purchase through American Express you get 3 year warranty now that is very good. The setup is very simple plus it has a USB slot and you can view all the pictures just by plugging in your jumpdrive. I can definately see the difference between Philips and LG which I bought 2 years ago. The picture quality is GREAT and it is heavy 115pound, I was able to mount is easily on the wall, needed some muscle power :) I would strongly recommend this TV but make sure to buy a universal remote.

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Excellent Choice in Large Screen HDTV Category

Posted Mar 19, 2008 - I looked long and hard before I bought this TV. I got a GREAT price ($1799 with coupon at Costco, they even DOUBLE the mfg warranty to 2 years). It came down to this TV and the Toshiba 52" Regza. It was a difficult decision, but all members of my family agreed that the Philips had the most lifelike picture. Set up was a breeze and it has performed exactly as I had expected. Check that, it has performed better than expected because after reading review I expected poor performance from analog channels. I hated watching analog on my old 50" rear projection, but they are more than acceptable on the Philips. Many of the complaints I have read are really nitpicking and kind of stupid. Philips made the right choices to keep the price reasonable. If you are buying a 52" TV and planning on using the internal speakers you are a fool. This is a home theater centerpiece and you would be stupid not to use a surround amp. As far as I'm concerned they could have left speakers out completely. Also the remote is acceptable, but I use a Harmony universal remote, so I don't care about that either. Believe me this TV has everything you need like HDMI 1.3, USB port for flash upgrades and multimedia, 1080p, Perfect Pixel HD engine. This is the real deal.

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phillips 52pfl7422d/37

Posted 1 year ago - 2 weeeks after i purchased this tv, it started having problems. the whole screen went haywire. the pixels were changing into different colors during this the tv wouldnt turn off or communicate at all until i pulled out its cord and plugged it back in, and it kept doin it more and more frequently. overall this tv was ok until the above story had occured. after this inconvenience,i don't recommend this tv to anyone. if i were you,then i'd put down an extra 300-500 bucks and get a samsung or sony, which is what i ended up doing

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