Philips 26PF5320 26'' Flat Panel Widescreen LCD TV

Philips 26PF5320 26'' Flat Panel Widescreen LCD TV

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Save space and enjoy a wonderfully vivid picture with the stylish, 26-inch Philips 26PF5320 widescreen LCD TV, perfect for smaller rooms, kitchens, or dorm rooms. It has a built-in 181-channel NTSC tuner for standard television broadcasts, but it's ready for high-definition signals when coupled with an optional HDTV receiver. It features Philips' Crystal Clear III video processing, which combines a whole range of enhancements to provide a better picture, including a dynamic contrast, blue stretch and green enhancement for the most natural looking colors. This set includes a tabletop stand, but it's also wall-mountable with optional kit (VESA compatible).

The 26PF5320 has a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution, 178-degree viewing angle, 16 ms (millisecond) response time, a 500 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and a 600:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a TV's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) Other features include an anti-reflection coated screen, auto volume leveler, adjustable color temperature and sharpness, sleep timer, and V-Chip parental controls.

The 3D comb filter separates brightness and color signals better in 3D domain to eliminate cross-color, cross-luminance and dot-crawl distortion. It performs field-by-field comparisons of the television image to accurately separate the color from the black-and-white information and remove both horizontally and vertically hanging dots, as well as dot crawl, resulting in a razor sharp image. This set also performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture.

This TV has two built-in stereo speakers that produce 5 watts per channel (for 10 watts of total power). Philips' Incredible Surround audio technology dramatically magnifies the sound field to immerse you in the audio. Using state-of-the-art electronic phase shifting, Incredible Surround mixes sounds from left and right in such a way that it expands the virtual distance between the two speakers. This wider spread greatly enhances the stereo effect and creates a more natural sound dimension--without the use of additional speakers. It also includes the following connections:

Composite AV (RCA) In: 1

S-Video In: 1

Component Video In (Y PB PR): 2

HDMI In: 1

RF In: 1

VGA PC input: 1

PC Audio In: 1

Tech Talk
HDMI -- 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.

What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), tabletop stand, power cord, printed operating instructions

Amazon.com Product Description

Save space and enjoy a wonderfully vivid picture with the stylish, 26-inch Philips 26PF5320 widescreen LCD TV, perfect for smaller rooms, kitchens, or dorm rooms. It has a built-in 181-channel NTSC tuner for standard television broadcasts, but it's ready for high-definition signals when coupled with an optional HDTV receiver. It features Philips' Crystal Clear III video processing, which combines a whole range of enhancements to provide a better picture, including a dynamic contrast, blue stretch and green enhancement for the most natural looking colors. This set includes a tabletop stand, but it's also wall-mountable with optional kit (VESA compatible).

Composite AV (RCA) In: 1
S-Video In: 1
Component Video In (Y PB PR): 2
HDMI In: 1
RF In: 1
VGA PC input: 1
PC Audio In: 1

Tech Talk
HDMI -- 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.

What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), tabletop stand, power cord, printed operating instructions

Product Description

Here is a wonderful new TV that not only gives you great picture and sound but also modern styling and quality finish. It features Digital Crystal Clear for natural, vivid images and Virtual Dolby Surround for superb audio.

Customer Reviews:

screen format problem.......2006-11-09

It's impossible to change the screen format while watching DVDs through Component Video or HDMI input. It is always in widescreen mode.
I tried to find a new firmware for this TV, but only newest Philips TVs has USB inputs for upgrading a firmware.
Also, the remote control is very, very bad. It doesn't have a "last channel" button, and it runs on small battery (CR2025) which needs to be change frequently.

This TV has an alarm timer!.......2006-07-09

This is one of the few LCD TVs to have a timer that allows you to use it as an alarm! Few descriptions even mention this feature and sales people in stores don't know what you are talking about. Thanks, Amazon.com for mentioning it! It works great and is easy to set up.

great buy.......2006-01-31

I looked around for about a week or so, and then found amazon offering this up at 950 w/ free shipping, which seems like a good price for a good tv. TV arrived within a week, and so far it seems to be a winner. Great picture! Though, this being my first 'widescreen' tv, I was surprised that even widescreen tv's still show letterboxing on most movies, I guess 16:9 isn't wide enough.
Doesn't have a DVI input, which would be nice, but does have VGA.
One little design flaw: the inputs are a little difficult to access, in back, facing down, under a ledge, would be easier to access on the side.

Remote Control .......2006-01-08

Great tv, but what kind of remote doen't have a "last channel" button?

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