There are many reasons to like him

... Unfortunately, the television department designed in 2012 a little difficult.
So after the test of two other manufacturers, is the Philips of the image quality and sound quality of the best.
And, above all, comparable with the current street price rather with twice as expensive models of the competition.
The weaknesses and strengths of the individual units very quickly promote the roots of individual manufacturers to days. Philips continues to provide good work for the preparation of image and sound.

Has been tested with the internal DVB-C receiver.
The picture and sound quality is convincing.
Unfortunately, I can confirm problems with the TV Software. The transmitter means succeeded only at the 4 start without crashing. As I said then, the television like crashes with plugged network cable just once fully, so that shortly the plug must be pulled. Nevertheless, it forgives the device like.
The contrast ratio of the TV's is very good, that you do not need 100 percent of it.

Nature documentaries in full HD, such as on "Servus TV" are of course amazing, because you can not make as much television also wrong :) The picture is really a dream. The colors do.
Just the perfect image.

The extrapolation of ARD HD and CPS HD to full HD works well. The picture is depending on seat pitch and mission very good to good.
Spotless photography (Soccer EC) deliver an outstanding studio quality.
But even when scaling SD quality makes the TV nor a sufficiently good figure.

A motion blur is minimally visible. Of course, this may be a 1600 Hz TV better, but we are talking about significantly different price regions.

Unfortunately tickers created (eg. On BBC) every few seconds a kind striped writing, .. an effect, once you've seen him, then also in moving normal images is visible.
The effect in about Just imagine this: When television picture broadcast in HD or SD will probably line inevitably added, and it is this added calculated interline sometimes seem hinterherzuhängen ... so the lines are shifted in itself.

The station sorting works very well, however, you have only understood the logic behind it.
When focusing, you sometimes order to find a setting option between 1 and 2 .. I think the sharpness a little too rough graded, but the scale extends to the unneeded 10, when images are already heavily distorted.

Connecting a USB mouse or keyboard worked well.
However, while surfing the Internet will pay so no real joy.
As the previous speaker already wrote, I have bstätigen unfortunately, that the TV is rather slow.
Starting a program from ARD library but has worked and for the speed of the menus is also acceptable without penalty. Unfortunately, I now could not start a movie from the library to ZDF. The only thing that appeared was an error message.

A small main disadvantage, which is why we are considering at the moment, if we keep the TV: The picture is already easily seen from the side very quickly milky and loses contrast.
That is not so strong we noticed in other devices.
(Why are the shutter glasses for 3D required) How could research, Phillips used in this model series probably a panel of Samsung.
In other series probably an LG panel. (Passive 3D)

3D I have not been tested because no interest and no glasses available.

If you can live with all these things, it's a great TV.
Yet a little anecdote: In the media market, I overheard a conversation with, in which an almost twice as expensive model has been declared by the competition, and because the seller so exaggerated the next to it (cheap) Philips made bad, it tingled me, me in engage the conversation and said, well that is still not well adjusted.
Well .. we then put something together at Philips around, and lo and behold. After a few minutes of Philips shone just image and colorful as the TV next to it.
Sure, the more expensive had local dimming and if you found 10 cm in front of the TV, you could see in some places a little finer contours of what the seller is also lifted out the same, and which was true.
However, when extrapolating the SD channels "surprise" the other producers with some spooky quality.
One reads in many disappointed reviews on Amazon that the models 2-3 years ago seem to consistently doing a better figure.
Too bad .. for all manufacturers.

But current Full HD devices, ie 1920 x 1080 pixels, probably demand more computing power, which is not found in the current devices and probably require the processing of images with computers soon comparable services.

Nevertheless, if you can live with all the things mentioned, I can recommend the Philips consistently. The picture and sound quality, the other quirks, such as the small lateral viewing angle or the occasional crashes make up loosely.