Philips 42PFL6188S: A complete TV

Philips unveiled their new TV Philips 42PFL6188S 3D smart TV. The two-sided XL TV comes ready to fill your room with coloured lightning. No other company have an answer to Philips 42PFL6188S in mid-range TV’s.

It's having some special features. One of them is the Miracast mobile screen mirroring. Connectivity too in the TV is carrying a lot of features. The company offers the TV in four screen size options- the 32-inch Philips 32PFL6188S, 47-inch Philips 47PFL6188S and the cinema-sized 55-inch Philips 55PFL6188S. Let’s now look at its specs and features.

Features

Ambilight  is one of the main features of the TV. The Philips 42PFL6188S Smart TV is an internet TV. Many streaming services are available in the TV, but primarily only some such as iPlayer, YouTube, Blinkbox, Viewster, and iConcerts are available. A remote is supplied with the set for navigating these features. The remote supplied is flappable, with a QWERTY keyboard on the reverse.  Almost all codecs are playable in the TV. Multimedia files are supported via both local USB and LAN.

Design

As we see in every TV, this device is also having a simple ‘TV design’. Simple and unstated, Philips makes its best in the design section in this set. I’m sure that you will never hate the edge-to-edge screen and minimal picture border. The TV is also having a mood lightning feature, but it doesn’t impact in depth highly.

You are permitted to use the Ambilight either dynamically, reflecting hues from onscreen content, or as fixed illumination, coloured red, blue or green.

Specs

The device is having many connectivity features such as four HDMI components, digital audio optical out, Scart via an adaptor, Ethernet plus a trio of USB inputs etc. The set comes with integrated Wi-Fi with Miracast streaming. The company also provides a feature to choose either a DVB- S2 satellite or a Freeview HD tuner.

Performance

All the Philips TV’s up to now are very complicated in set up, and the new 42PFL6188S is also not different. The main GUI of the TV is relatively intuitive. The picture menu of the TV offers head-scratching multiplicity, which is placed under the Pixel Precise HD banner.

If you need a perfect level of motion clarity, you need to know how to enable Perfect Natural Motion. The available primary settings in the set contribute motion artefacts. With detailed retaining in shadows, black level performance is suitably nourished.

The Philips 42PFL6188S is a kind of goggle-box for you, if you like to preternaturally crisp Full HD images. The device has a 2 x 12W sound system, which is not so shot on punchy middle-bass.

AfterWords

There are many things in the device, which make you to love it. The screen of the device is very good and nice-looking, although it's not without its foibles. As the manufacturer is Philips the build quality is superb. The TV feels do substantial, as the bezel is fashionably narrow. There are some defects for the TV, but that is forgivable, like the short- changed Smart portal. The illumination of the Ambilight is so attractive joyful.

Philips has done something great by simplifying UI and Spartan EPG, and that is something difficult to ignore. You will have to take some bigger effort to get the best image from the panel; the set is blessed with a decent black level performance and extremely crisp detail. The Philips 42PFL6188S costs £1,000 and is now available in markets. Totally the set is worth the money we spend.

Samsung UE32EH5000 : Best 32-inch LED TV in 2013

Samsung unveiled their new 32-inch HD LED TV Samsung UE32EH5000. It is a midrange set that promises amazing features and price. Today a number of LED TV’s are available in affordable prices, but the UE32EH5000 is different. It varies from others with its great features.

Now days Samsung bring their most TV’s in the brand name ‘Samsung Smart’, this TV is not included in that category. It is because of its low-cost. Let’s take a look at its specs and features

Design and features

The TV has a super-slim body and silver styling of Samsung’s expensive sets. The design has much change from the regular design of LED, LCD TV’s, with a rear end that slicks out like a dancer in a hip-hop video.

But don’t let that chunkiness put you off too much – elsewhere it’s rather dapper, sporting a slim gloss black bezel and a little lip at the bottom. The round stand adds to the allure with some sumptuous curves and more gloss black, even if its build is a little plastic.

On the back there is very limited number of sockets, which is not found today in other similar models. There are only two HDMI ports. This will worry you if you have many hi-definition devices.

The other ports included are; Composite Video Input, Component Video Input, USB, Ethernet (RJ 45), Headphone Jack, Digital Optical Audio Output, SCART and one RF

Connection Input.

Without DLNA or Samsung’s Smart TV portal, the Samsung offers a great deal of a Freeview HD tuner that allows access to hi-definition channels.

The TV supports watching videos, playing music, and viewing photo files through USB port. It also supports a large amount of video formats such as AVCHD, DivX, WMV HD, AVI, XviD, MP4, 3GP and MKV. In the case of music files also it offers support to   MP3, WMA, AAC and FLAC formats. The image side disappoints as it supports only JPEG.

The TV doest allows recording from Freeview tuner into an external memory source.

The device’s setup menu offers a various picture adjustments. Select the Picture menu and the first page houses all the usual tweaks – presets (Movie, Natural, Standard, and Dynamic), contrast, brightness, sharpness, colour and tint. There is also a lot in advanced settings menu. 

The TV also offers Dynamic Contrast, White Balance, Black Tone and Gamma. The TV’s picture option menu contains settings such as Tone, Digital/MPEG Noise Filters and LED Motion Plus, which makes the movement smooth and reduces judder.

The stand of the TV is round. The TV weights 6.4 Kg (with stand). The measurement of the TV display is 738.3 x 444.9 x 93.2 mm.

The other features included are Clock, Sleep Timer, On/Off Timer, Game Mode, Picture in Picture, Teletext, 1 Tuner Picture-In-Picture, OSD Language, ConnectShare Movie (USB 2.0), EPG, Channel List USB-Clone, CI+, Auto Channel Search, Eco Sensor, Auto Power Off

Operation

The TV is featured with a stripped-back menu system. The TV offers a very cute graphics and great brightness.

The main menu is featured in the middle of the screen as a simple blue box. It contains all the relevant categories listed down the left. The TV has a smooth moving cursor, which makes navigation easy. Hitting on the ‘content’ button on the remote displays a row of large icons, which gives access to the channel list,EPG, USB content, schedule manager and connected sources. The tools menu displays settings and details of what you are watching.

Samsung’s EPG is one of the best in the market. It is packed with a six-grid programme grid. There are also shortcuts to radio and data stations. There is a flexible onscreen info banner, which allows you to view any channel for the next seven days, not just ‘now and next’ like some TVs.

The ‘Media Play’ has a user-friendly theme. It also contains logical submenus, folders and thumbnails to help you find your files quickly.

The remote is smaller Samsung’s usual ones. This will not affect the buttons and nothing is there to worry about the remote that the buttons are not thickly packed. Some may find the buttons at the bottom a little small but it’s not a major hindrance.

Performance

The UE32EH5000 delivers picture quality that you will not expect for Rs 28,776. As we saw in design the performance is also great for the price.

The TV gives a great Blu-Ray experience and the brightness is great for an HD LED 32-inch model. The brightness in the day light appears very good. The TV gives HD materials a rich, razor-sharp appearance.

The TV is best to view bright animated movies and videos, in which the TV performs its best. The image retains a reasonable sense of depth, helped considerably by a consistent backlight, which brings uniform picture depth across the screen. This means you can easily make out shadow detail in the picture, such as shading and textures on the background walls as the team explores the alien edifice.

The flashing light that cut their way through the gloom are remarkably crisp, which shows the sets superb contrast. The TV makes even the dull pictures bright. Even the Freeview channels can be awesome when seen through the Samsung UE32EH5000.

Perhaps the biggest flaw is motion reproduction. I watched Match of the Day in HD and detected some smearing behind moving players and a slight gauzy effect as the camera moves around the pitch, but it’s not likely to spoil your enjoyment.

Sound

The TV is featured with Down Firing and Full Range built-in speakers. The technology used is Dolby Digital Pulse with SRS Theatre Sound. The TV gives good sound when watching live programs with crackling sound. It also works well with news and quiz programmes. The bass of the speakers is not up to the mark, but that doesn’t count.

 

After Words

We can say the Samsung UE32EH5000 is one of the best 32-inch LED TV’s. Its amazing price also attracts people towards it. The audio and video performance of the TV is higher than all the expectations. There is no place for rethinking before buying. It’s a great offer made by Samsung with its price of 28,776. All this things makes the UE32EH5000 a nightmare for the rivals. Once again I say it’s the best choice of all 32-inch HD LED TV’s.

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Panasonic VT50B Smart Viera : The Smart Plasma TV

One of the world’s favorite TV makers Panasonic unveiled their new TV Viera VT50. The TV is available in 50, 55 and 65-inch models. The TV costs around £1,900. Here is a small review of the product.

Menu System

The Panasonic menu system is seen as the best of all but unfortunately the company hasn’t updated the design and layout for a few years. It’s the basic menu when compared to Samsung’s and LG’s menu which is more attractive and user-friendly. It will not affect most of the people, but it is disappointing that such an advanced TV have only a basic menu system.

There are three EPG layouts. They do not offer a choice of info views and number of channels shown on screen.

Design

Panasonic have no history of making stylish designs, this model looks good and is able to fight with its rivals. The TV has a different front design.  Due to the nature of plasma technology, these sets are never going to have the bezel-free look of the latest LG and Samsung LED TVs. The panel depth is just 43mm; the slim TV holds a narrow and beautiful frame by a classy looking chrome strip

The remote has been redesigned. But the button layout and shape remain unchanged. All the keys in the remote are sensibly paced.

Panasonic provides a touchpad controller. The touch pad controller wants to be redesigned to make it user-friendly.

The device has an inbuilt Wi-Fi connection and there's an Ethernet port if you'd prefer to use a wired connection. The rear panels also contain mini-jack inputs as an optical audio output.

Audio

The feels quit as the 80mm woofers are placed into the rear of the device. By this the company succeed to add an extra low-end thump when you're watching a movie, making it sound much bassier than most of its LED rivals.

2D picture

The device gives an awesome 2D experience. Motion clarity is fantastic, achieving levels of smoothness and crispness that most other TVs could only dream of. Fast-paced sports like football and F1 are a pleasure to watch.

Handling of colours seems much better than the old models. Graduations between colours are extremely smooth and natural and hues have a lot of punch, while retaining their warmth and naturalness.

The company says that the VT50's panel is brighter than that used on old models.

3D picture

The Panasonic VT50 ships with 2 pairs of 3D glasses. The glasses are very comfortable to wear and give a good 3D experience. The set's 3D pictures are strong. On the negative side, the dimming effect of the active glasses, and that fact that plasma screens are inherently less bright than LED screens, means 3D images do look quite a lot darker than on the majority of LED sets. That's particularly noticeable if you're watching 3D material during the day.

After Words

We can say the Panasonic TX-P50VT50B is an awesome TV. It offers the features for the price we pay. And has the best picture, audio, design. You will also be able to surf internet using this device. If you want to buy a 50-inch TV VT50 is the best choice. But remember low cost TV’s with more features are available in market. When comparing to other models the price is little high.  

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