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Enjoy the ultimate viewing experience with this Philips integrated HDTV with Pixel Plus 2 HD, Ambilight and the latest LCD technology. Share music and photos via the built-in USB and memory-card reader.

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Turn up your viewing experience

with Pixel Plus 2 HD and Ambilight

  • 107cm (42")
  • LCD

Pixel Plus 2 HD for great details, depth and clarity

Pixel Plus 2 HD offers the unique combination of ultimate sharpness, natural detail, increased depth, vivid colors and smooth and natural motion from standard TV, High Definition signals and multimedia sources. Each pixel of the incoming picture is enhanced to better match the surrounding pixels, resulting in a more natural picture. Artifacts in compressed multimedia content are detected and reduced, ensuring that the picture is clean and razor sharp. Digital noise reduction ensures that the picture is perfectly smooth yet razor sharp.

Full-color ambient lighting enhances the viewing experience

The full-color ambient lights offers you relaxed viewing and a unique ambiance via a soft light glow on the walls surrounding the TV. Research has shown that watching television with adapted ambient lighting promotes more relaxed TV viewing. the Ambilight colors automatically adapt to the images on the screen to add a new sensation to the viewing experience. The light can also be switched to fixed colors or various shades of white. In standby mode, the lights can be operated to any color and create a unique ambiance in the room.

HDMI input for full digital HD connection in one cable

HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen. By eliminating conversion to an analog signal, it delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal reduces flicker and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI intelligently communicates the highest output resolution with the source device. The HDMI input is fully backward compatible with DVI sources but includes digital audio. HDMI uses HDCP copy protection.

HD LCD WXGA display, with a 1366 x 768p resolution

HD LCD WXGA display, with a 1366 x 768p resolution

This WXGA display with state-of-the-art LCD screen technology gives you widescreen HD resolution of 1366 x 768p pixels. It produces brilliant flicker-free progressive scan pictures with optimum brightness and superb colors. This vibrant and sharp image will provide you with an enhanced viewing experience.

Integrated HDTV and CableCARD for unrivalled picture quality

Integrated HDTV and CableCARD for unrivalled picture quality

The CableCARD is a removable card distributed by the cable providers that is inserted in the TV. This enables the “Plug-and-Play DTV” functionality as agreed between cable operators and consumer electronics manufacturers. It allows the decoding of encrypted or scrambled content delivered from the cable system. CableCARD functionality includes conditional access and copy protection. A CableCARD-enabled television without a CableCARD inserted receives high-definition standard TV broadcasts. When a CableCARD is inserted, the television receives high-value high-definition, cable programming.

Enjoy HDTV that's truer than anything you've seen before

Enjoy HDTV that's truer than anything you've seen before

HDTV delivers exceptional picture quality and real movie-viewing experience that makes television more dynamic, truer than anything you've seen before. It is the latest and best television signal available. It features picture quality more than twice that of traditional analog broadcasts. In order to effectively maximize the HDTV signal, a television must incorporate advanced signal input connectivity and circuitry design.

Active Control with Light Sensor optimizes picture quality

Active Control with Light Sensor optimizes picture quality

Active Control is a unique and intelligent way of optimizing picture quality by measuring and analyzing the incoming signal to automatically adjust picture quality settings. Active Control with Light Sensor uses a sensor to adjust the picture brightness depending on the room light conditions.

USB and Memory-Card slot for instantly playing multimedia

USB and Memory-Card slot for instantly playing multimedia

Instantaneously view and share your movies, photos and music. The Memory Card slot will accept cards of type Compact Flash I and II, Memory Stick, SD Card / Mini SD Card, Smart Media, Micro Drive (up to 2 GB) and Multi Media Card. Simply plug the memory card into slot at the side of the TV, and access the multimedia files stored on the card. The USB connector allows access to multimedia files of most USB-sticks and most digital cameras (USB memory-class device).
Technical Specifications

  • Picture/Display

    Aspect ratio

    16:9

    Contrast ratio (typical)

    500:1

    Response time (typical)

    8  ms

    Viewing angle (horizontal)

    176  degree

    Viewing angle (vertical)

    176  degree

    Diagonal screen size (inch)

    42  inch

    Diagonal screen size (metric)

    107  cm

    Panel resolution

    1366 x 768p

    Picture enhancement

    • Pixel Plus 2 HD

    • Dynamic contrast enhancement

    • 3D Combfilter

    • Active Control + Light sensor

    • Jagged Line Suppression

    • Progressive scan

    • Widescreen Plus

    Brightness

    400  cd/m²

    Dynamic screen contrast

    3500:1

    Color cabinet

    Pearl White Silver (11092)

    Display screen type

    LCD WXGA Active Matrix TFT

    Screen enhancement

    Anti-Reflection coated screen

  • Supported Display Resolution

    Computer formats

    • 640 x 480, 60Hz

    • 800 x 600, 60Hz

    • 1024 x 768, 60Hz

    • 1366 x 768, 60Hz

    Video Formats

    • 1280 x 720p - 3Fh

    • 1920 x 1080i - 2Fh

    • 640 x 480i - 1Fh

    • 640 x 480p - 2Fh

    • 720 x 576i - 1Fh

    • 720 x 576p - 2Fh

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Technical Specifications

  • Picture/Display

    Aspect ratio

    16:9

    Contrast ratio (typical)

    500:1

    Response time (typical)

    8  ms

    Viewing angle (horizontal)

    176  degree

    Viewing angle (vertical)

    176  degree

    Diagonal screen size (inch)

    42  inch

    Diagonal screen size (metric)

    107  cm

    Panel resolution

    1366 x 768p

    Picture enhancement

    • Pixel Plus 2 HD

    • Dynamic contrast enhancement

    • 3D Combfilter

    • Active Control + Light sensor

    • Jagged Line Suppression

    • Progressive scan

    • Widescreen Plus

    Brightness

    400  cd/m²

    Dynamic screen contrast

    3500:1

    Color cabinet

    Pearl White Silver (11092)

    Display screen type

    LCD WXGA Active Matrix TFT

    Screen enhancement

    Anti-Reflection coated screen

  • Supported Display Resolution

    Computer formats

    • 640 x 480, 60Hz

    • 800 x 600, 60Hz

    • 1024 x 768, 60Hz

    • 1366 x 768, 60Hz

    Video Formats

    • 1280 x 720p - 3Fh

    • 1920 x 1080i - 2Fh

    • 640 x 480i - 1Fh

    • 640 x 480p - 2Fh

    • 720 x 576i - 1Fh

    • 720 x 576p - 2Fh

  • Sound

    Output power (RMS)

    2x15W

    Sound System

    Virtual Dolby Digital

    Sound Enhancement

    • Auto Volume Leveler

    • Digital Signal Processing

    • Graphic Equaliser

    • Dynamic Bass Enhancement

  • Loudspeakers

    Built-in speakers

    2

  • Convenience

    Child Protection

    Child Lock+Parental Control

    Clock

    Smart Clock

    Ease of Use

    • Channel list

    • Delta Volume per preset

    • On Screen Display

    • Side Control

    • Smart Picture

    • Smart Sound

    Remote Control

    • Amp

    • CBL

    • DVD

    • DVD-R

    • Sat

    • STB (Set-Top Box)

    • VCR

    • Universal and Learnable

    Screen Format Adjustments

    • 7 Widescreen Modes

    • Auto Format

    • Subtitle and Heading Shift

    Ease of Installation

    • Automatic Tuning System (ATS)

    • Autostore

    • PLL Digital Tuning

    • Plug & Play

    Remote control type

    RC4318

    Teletext

    Closed Captioning Full Text

    Picture in Picture

    HDMI-Component PIP

  • Multimedia Applications

    Multimedia connections

    USB

    Playback Formats

    • MP3

    • Slideshow files (.alb)

    • JPEG Still pictures

    Digital Content Management

    Digital Media Reader

    Memory Card Types

    • Compact Flash type I

    • Compact Flash type II

    • Memory Stick

    • Microdrive

    • MultiMedia Card (MMC)

    • Secure Digital Card (SD)

    • Smart Media Card

  • Tuner/Reception/Transmission

    Aerial Input

    75 ohm F-type

    TV system

    • ATSC

    • NTSC

    Video Playback

    NTSC

    Cable

    • Unscrambled Digital Cable QAM

    • Digital Cable Ready CableCARD

  • Connectivity

    Other connections

    • Monitor out, CVBS, L/R (cinch)

    • S/PDIF in (coaxial)

    • S/PDIF out (coaxial)

    • Cable Card Interface

    AV 1

    • (1, 2, 3Fh autoranging)

    • Audio L/R in

    • Component Video in

    • CVBS in

    • RGB+H/V

    • YPbPr

    • Y/C

    AV 2

    • Audio L/R in

    • CVBS

    • Y/C

    AV 3

    • (1, 2, 3Fh autoranging)

    • S/PDIF digital coaxial

    • YPbPr

    AV 4

    HDMI

    AV 5

    HDMI

    Front / Side connections

    • Audio L/R in

    • CVBS in

    • Headphone Out

    • S-video in

    • 2x USB

  • Power

    Mains power

    AC 110-120V (+/-10%)

    Power consumption

    292  W

    Standby power consumption

    <2

    Ambient temperature

    5 °C to 40 °C

  • Dimensions

    Product weight (lb)

    77.2  lb

    Wall mount compatible

    800 x 400 mm

    Product dimension (WxDxH) inch

    48.8 x 26.8 x 4.1"  inch

  • Accessories

    Included accessories

    Table top stand

  • Ambilight

    Ambilight Features

    • 2 Channel Left/Right control

    • Auto adaptive to video content

    Color Settings

    Full Multi Color

    Dimming Function

    Manual and via Light Sensor

    Preset modes

    • 4 Active Adaptive modes

    • 2 Preset & 1 Personal color