I've since 6 years as a Philips Cineos 32 "TV, which pleases me so much that I have recently resorted when buying back to Philips. The new purchase was on, because I have quite a lot of HD video streams watch lately, what with the HD Ready display of my old device does not look as nice as it might look. The video games also look better on Full HD.
I Ambilight with my old like a lot (Ambilight means that the wall is illuminated behind the TV in the colors that are just visible on the screen. When you scheduled the lighting is so usually green, at a murder scene maybe red, etc. ), I have accessed with a good offer for this here. With Philips nothing wrong machste I thought ...
The device is delivered in a pretty compact sturdy cardboard box, in which the TV, 4 3D glasses, power cord, remote control, Stand and instructions are. The guide is really only a small piece of paper, where with the help of drawings, the usual application scenarios and connection possibilities are shown.
For assembly of Stand and TV, you need a large table and a screwdriver. How to do this is shown in the instructions for IKEA-style. Here you can do nothing wrong per se. Everything is valuable and stable. The screen itself unfortunately attached 2 stickers. A brief summary of the key features, which perhaps makes sense in business, but not in a packaged for customer equipment. The other sticker boasts energy efficiency. Is also rather TEXT_PRODUCT_NOT_BUYABLEContinue sense. And exactly this sticker you do not get abgeknibbelt without touching the screen. The Plague! Situated less than 2 minutes before the screen is dirty. :-( And that only because of jerks at Philips who do not think.
The ports on the back are clearly labeled, so it is not a problem, antenna (or satellite, if you have) and devices to connect. I had a problem with the Ethernet cable. First, the TV was no Internet, what you could not fix by restarting the device. It was only when I had the cable away and new reingesteckt, there was Internet. Thus it is the first sighting of the device was possible.
Very bad: The reflective display. I knew not, but now I know that specular TV displays are well fashion. My old Cineos has a matte screen, and I am also very happy. This Philips reflects so much that I can not use my Soundbar because their status LEDs are clearly visible to see the screen even though they are not really visible from my place of television. Even otherwise really reflects everything all day long. Even now under an overcast sky, I see myself and the WoZi facility deutlichst screen. This is the ultimate. Hab test, attempts by brightness = 100 (default is 50) the problem to master, did not work.
And since so the topic Philips 42PFK7109 actually is for me through, now follows a loose collection of unpleasant settings that are noticed:
- Very high switching with Freeview (cable or satellite I can not test). Is it possible to reduce slightly when "channel logo" off, because then no longer have to be painted slowly with each channel change, but zapping still not fun.
- Is it something on a device connected to the HDMI port on the movies, so you can switch by pressing a channel button on TV not easy. No, you have only the Source button on the remote control, then choose TV and then can select a TV channel with the channel button. So complicated! That's solved a lot better with my old, because you can always HDMI or other connections look by pressing a key channel TV.
- Below the display is a backlit Philips logo. This is so absurd and so disturbing especially in the evening, that I am very surprised about this thing. Luckily, you can turn it off.
- Who gambles like, will be wondering after 4 hours that the TV camera goes out. This is a power saving feature that is activated if no key has been pressed for 4 hours on the remote control, or if no input TV signal in time. Well, not one HDMI. Is it possible to disable luckily.
- As with mobile phones a brightness sensor is installed in the TV, the screwed on contrast. Unfortunately, just like cell phones varies the brightness perceived by the sensor, apparently permanently. Because with a constant light from outside, the contrast of the screen changes constantly. The only stops when you turn off the light sensor. (What I always do by the way also in cell phones).
- At the bottom of the remote, there is a full QWERTY keyboard. But why not open up to me. Because may enter complicated passwords in apps you so not necessarily. I tried it with the pre-installed on the TV Netflix app, but could not. I had to use the virtual keyboard within the app to enter the Netflix password.
- The remote control buttons are not illuminated. Since you can use the TV due to the highly reflective display anyway only late in the evening (if any) would be an illuminated remote control only logical. Because blind does not apply to the keys.
- The menu I find very confusing structure. What is there for a number of clicks needed, for example, to change the color or brightness of the image, is outrageous.
I am grateful to all in all, for the right of withdrawal and will this set (and, unfortunately, now the Philips brand) recommend it to anyone. Buy more another TV.
