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.