Philips 37PFL5604 TV reviews

Score 8.4/10 Read 5
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This TV is a good all rounder.

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Philips 37PFL5604 with 37" Full HD 1080p LCD screen, 3 HDMI ports and Freeview. See full product description

Ease of use	8.2
Image quality	9.2
Sound quality	8.6
Design	8.8
Value for money	8.8
Overall rating	8.4

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Confirmed purchaser

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Great picture, good design and easy to use.
Bad points:: sound isn't as good as I was expecting - but flatscreen TVs tend not to have great sound anyway

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	7.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 20 Oct 2010

Confirmed purchaser Multi-purpose viewer

Score 5.0/10

Good points:: Good sound, Good picture, Lots of connection types.
Bad points:: 1. Initial setup.
2. Viewing what's on other channels while watching a progamme. (Awful).
3. Adding devices - (can't edit or delete after setup).
4. User guide very poor, Also a paper copy would be useful as you can't read what user guidance there is while trying to do what it says! Or provide a good transparent screen overlay/ split screen operation.
5. Unacceptable delay in picture visibility on power up.
6. Quick mode change buttons would be good.

Ease of use	3.0
Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	5.0
Value for money	7.0
Overall rating	5.0

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Confirmed purchase: 20 Jul 2009

Rich, Hull High spec fanatic

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: I bought this for my parents and now wish it was for me! The picture is super high quality with loads of great features. The menus are really easy to use, not to mention it just looks really great. I would highly recommend this product.
Bad points:: I honestly have not found any!

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

Was this review helpful? 9 of 10 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 10 Dec 2009

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Product Features

Screen size (Inches)	37
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Type of screen	LCD
Most small flatscreen TVs have LCD screens. Some larger TVs have plasma screens. Some very new TVs have LED screens. Traditional TVs are called Standard or CRT.
3D	No

HD TV	Full HD 1080p
‘HD Ready’ is a Europe-wide standard designed to made HD technology less confusing. HD Ready TVs must have • Minimum resolution of 720 horizontal lines (in widescreen format) • Ability to display 720p and 1080i formats • An HDMI or Digital Video Interface (DVI interface) Full HD is a higher standard. Full HD TVs have screen resolutions of 1080p and can output at least 24 frames per second. Full HD is becoming common, but you won’t see Full HD on normal TV channels for a long time, so it remains optional for many people.
Built-in disc player	No Disc Player
Some products come with built-in DVD players or Blu Ray players.
Freeview or Freesat tuner	Freeview
Freeview is free digital terrestrial TV. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service, which gives you HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You need a dish to receive Freesat but not Freeview. For more information see the Freeview site or the Freesat site. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service. The main benefit is that you can get HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You’ll need a dish to recieve the signals though.
Number of HDMI ports	3
Like a scart interface but capable of carrying HD signals from or to other devices. You’ll need these to link your Playstation 3 or your Blu-ray player to your HD-ready TV.
Number of scart ports	2
Scart sockets are places where you can connect other devices to your TV. If you already have a DVD player, a VCR and a Playstation you might want to make sure your new TV has enough Scart interfaces so you don’t have to keep crawling round the back of the TV.
Connections	HDMI

Smart TV	No
TVs with internet capability allow you access to a range of online services.
Frequency (Hz)	50
A TV’s frequency is how often the picture is updated per second, and is measured in Hertz (Hz). A higher frequency, such as 100 Hz, means that a TV is more likely to show fast-moving images with high detail.
Response time (Milliseconds)	5

Screen aspect ratio	16:9
This is a ratio of the horizontal to the vertical size of the screen. 16:9 is standard widescreen format for TVs, replacing the older 4:3 format.
Contrast Ratio (X:1)	50000
This figure is designed to tell you how much difference there is between dark and light colours on the TV. It is quoted as a ratio, between the brightest white and the darkest black. 500:1 means the brightest white is 500 times more bright than the darkest black. Plasma screens have historically boasted better contrast ratios than LCD screens.
Reflection angle	178
Also known as the viewing angle, it’s a measure of how good the picture looks when you are not face on to the screen. Higher is better.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	1920

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	1080

Brightness (Candela per square metre)	500
Brighter TVs, such as LCDs, tend to provide a better experience in lighter rooms, whereas TVs with a lower brightness, such as many plasma TVs, are often better suited to darker rooms.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)	Yes
TVs with this feature have an on-screen guide to all the programmes that are currently showing or coming up, so you can find your way around all the extra digital channels easily.
Headphone Socket	Yes
Weight (kg)	13.5

Release date	2009-04-14
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: 37PFL5604H, Philips 37PFL5604H

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Manufacturer's Description

Pixel Plus HD for better details, depth and clarity

Pixel Plus HD is a picture processing technology that enables viewers to watch content that is vivid, natural and real. The results are superbly life-like pictures with incredible details and depth from any HD source.

Full HD LCD display, with a 1920 × 1080p resolution

The Full HD screen has the widescreen resolution of 1920 × 1080p. This is the highest resolution of HD sources for the best possible picture quality. It is fully future-proof as it supports 1080p signals from all sources, including the most recent sources such as Blu-ray and advanced HD game consoles. The signal processing is extensively upgraded to support this much higher signal quality and resolution. It produces brilliant flicker-free progressive scan pictures with superb brightness and colours.

28.9 billion colours for brilliant natural images

Vibrant and natural images from the most advanced colour processing. The 3 colour channels (RGB) are optimised using 10-bit resolution, a total processing power of 28.9 billion colours. It produces vibrant colours while retaining excellent sharpness. The advanced algorithms detect subtle colour shades and skin tones and process them to give the most natural colours.

Dynamic contrast 50000:1 for incredible rich black details

You want the LCD flat display with the highest contrast and most vibrant images. Philips advanced video processing combined with unique extreme dimming and backlight-boosting technology results in vibrant images. Dynamic Contrast will increase the contrast with excellent black level and accurate rendition of dark shades and colours. It gives a bright, lifelike picture with high contrast and vibrant colours.

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