Good picture, mediocre sound, lousy Smart TV, nasty Software / Firmware

Good picture, mediocre sound, lousy Smart TV, nasty Software / Firmware

Philips 32PFL5007K / 12 81 cm (32 inch) TV (Full HD, Triple Tuner, Smart TV) (Electronics)

Customer Review

I have this TV now about 1.5 years in daily use. Since yesterday he is in fact dead. It has the "Philips bug" caught him. It switches itself every 20 seconds in and out and in and out and in and out, etc., etc.. No responses to remote control (FB) or buttons on the unit. Whether he was disconnected from the power, or the batteries were removed from the FB.

The support forums are full of this bug. A workaround be aufzuspielen the latest firmware via a USB stick is new. I'm curious how that will succeed in 20 seconds, if you can make any choice and only the last station that you had seen before this error appears. We'll see. In Philips support forum is yet allerernstens noted that you disable all FB (also the other devices) (ie batteries out) is. Of course, it is recommended to back up the channel list previously on stick. What is not natural, because you do not have access ...

... And if you know how absolutely bes ******* is the sort function on this TV, I now is already ill, if I may again make all that crap, I should get reactivated the TV ever again.

Now the image: Very good. I have the 400Hz version with Pixel Plus and all Schnuff. Just looking convincing in the presentation.

Sound: The built-in noisemakers sound mediocre. Therefore connect a Panasonic DVD surround sound system via HDMI ARC. Please keep in mind, on the TV to activate the function in the corresponding menu and turn on the time delay, otherwise it just comes to Unsynchronitäten between picture and sound in HD programming. But probably depends also on the particular external device. Once set, it works very well and convinced then also in tone. Switching on an external speaker also needed so its time and can be annoying if you turn quickly and want to watch.

It is important that it is visually possible only through HDMI ARC, or to connect external speakers. Of course, the headphone jack is, but there is no RCA output.

Gray hair you can get at the advertised features like Smart TV and HbbTV this. Everything is terribly slow, reacts with delay and happy depends also on time. Then just helped that device off and back on.

Time shifting television is possible if you connect an external HDD or a large USB flash drive. Also recordings. These are but only on the same TV to watch again. These functions hakeln also like to schedule recordings and makes the reasonable liberated software also "really" fun. You click to perk up through the menus and everything is thick as honey. View is the same circumstance crate to reach their recorded video.

Software / Firmware: Lock up the programmer! That is assault, which is a da palmed as "Operation concept"! I'm just saying (even if I repeat myself): Sender sorting function. It is formally compelled to torment on the Favorites menu. But since everyone makes the best of his own experience - I have the muzzle painted so fully.

So now let's see who (= Amazon merchants - WARRANTY OR = Manufacturer Philips - guarantee) like to put my TV back to a functional state.

Expensive Scrap 5 Rank: 1/5
January 31
Although !! 36 Rank: 3/5
January 24
Capacitive Stylus Rank: 1/5
October 6
Very good now! 3 Rank: 5/5
August 29

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