Philips 23PF4321 Review

Manufacturer’s Description

The Philips 23PF4321/01 23-inch HDTV-ready flat-panel LCD TV is more than just great looks. The perfect size for a small space, the 9.8cm thick display provides an excellent audio/visual experience with features like Crystal Clear III, Active Control, Virtual Dolby Surround, and unique flat speakers.

LCD WXGA display, 1366 x 768p
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 colours. This vibrant and sharp image will provide you with an enhanced viewing experience.

HD Ready
Enjoy the exceptional picture quality of a true High Definition TV signal and be fully prepared for HD sources like HDTV broadcast, Blu-ray DVD or HDVD. HD ready is a protected label that offers picture quality beyond that of progressive scan. It conforms to strict standards laid out by EICTA to offer an HD screen that displays the benefits of resolution and picture quality of a High Definition TV signal. It has a universal connection for both analogue YPbPr and uncompressed Digital connection of DVI or HDMI, supporting HDCP. It can display 720p, and 1080i signals at 50 and 60Hz.

Crystal Clear
The high-definition (HD tuner not included) ready, 1,366 x 768 WXGA LCD panel uses the latest panel technology, such as Philips’ proprietary Crystal Clear package of innovations featuring a 2D digital comb filter (eliminates dot crawl and colour bleeding, enhancing fine detail, cleaning up image outlines, and removing most extraneous colours), Dynamic Contrast for deep blacks and pure whites, and green and blue colour enhancement. The high 450:1 contrast ratio gives you better subtle colour details and the ability to see the picture in bright light conditions, and the 16-millisecond response time means it’s capable of handling fast-moving action without image blur or lag.

Virtual dolby surround
Virtual Dolby Surround is a processing technology for enhancing surround sound effects. Built-in flat speakers (5 watts per channel) sit on either side of the LCD WXGA Active Matrix TFT screen, giving you full stereo sound without needing to connect to an external speaker system. Virtual Dolby Surround sound support simulates cinema surround sound effects without the need for rear speakers. Philips’ Smart Listening auto volume leveling eliminates drastic volume spikes while changing channels or when channels go to a commercial break.

Large Viewing Angle
Other features include 140-degree horizontal and 125-degree vertical viewing angles, 100 preset channels, Autostore for easy tuning, Auto Picture (five modes give you picture settings for different types of programming), Auto Sound (four modes to tailor the TV sound to enhance what you’re watching), multi-language onscreen display, sleep timer, integrated tuner and RF jack for terrestrial reception, ergonomic remote control, and an anti-reflective screen.

Smart Picture & Smart Sound
Philips preset modes for Smart Picture and Smart Sound provide you with direct access via a single key on the remote control. You can select optimised picture and sound settings for the various picture modes such as Eco, Natural, Rich, Multimedia and Personal, and sound modes such as Movie, Voice, Music and Personal.

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