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Philips PFL5603 Series LCD HDTV (37",42") Reviews Analysis

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Philips PFL5603 Series LCD HDTV (37",42")
alaSCORE 93

316 reviews

November, 2009

68 / 100

23 Experts

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83 / 100

293 Users

What people think about the Philips PFL5603 Series LCD HDTV (37",42"): (BETA!)

We compute this summary by analyzing 316 reviews from across the web.

image quality

4.5

  • Picture seems to be washed out with too much brightness no matter how you adjust the settings
  • Difficult to get a good picture
  • picture quality
  • High quality construction, picture quality, superb sound
  • Excellent picture
  • picture
  • I like very much its design, the picture quality is good, the sound is superb, reasonable price
 
  • Picture is sharp and bright on the 47"
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price

5

  • very good value
 

color

5

  • accurate primary colors
  • Great color representation with tweaking of the color
  • Great color representation with tweaking of the color, brightness, contrast and automated settigns
 

connectivity

5

  • solid connectivity with four HDMI inputs
  • usb port and 4 hdmi ports
 

build quality

5

  • High quality construction
  • build quality
  • colours, build quality, gaming
 

energy efficiency

3

  • Zero power savings features in PC mode
  • Fine power savings in some modes
 

menu

0.5

  • Menu could have been better, VGA input is missing
 

glare

5

  • Brilliant Freeview
  • Great Design, Brilliant Freeview, Great for Gaming
 

screen

5

  • Consumes less energy than any flat-panel TV we've tested
 

sound

2

  • sound goes out a lot on it
  • Shadows are way too much, sound goes out a lot on it, takes forever to turn on, pix isn't all that great
  • Sound isn't great
  • Sound isn't great, Not very quick
  • superb sound
  • better sound system than most TVs
 

black level

0.5

  • Produces light black levels
  • energy-saving mode creates distracting black-level fluctuations
  • Black levels not as dark as would be ideal
 

battery

5

  • Low energy consumption, no noticable motion blur during gaming
  • very low energy consuption
  • magnificient blue ray ,HD, picture, is made with no cadmium, mercury or other harmul health materials, very low energy consuption, atractive styling , very good value
 

video

5

  • renders analog video nicely compared to others
 

LCD

5

  • Little to no screen reflection
 

performance

4.5

  • Not very quick
  • fast 5ms response time
  • 1080p, fast 5ms response time
 

usability

0.5

  • Dont use any automated settings they lend a strange effect to the picture...barely noticeable, but there
 

design

5

  • handsome styling
  • speakers are on the back and looks slick
  • nice options for naming inputs, usb port and 4 hdmi ports, speakers are on the back and looks slick
  • atractive styling
  • Great Design
 

viewfinder

0.5

  • some picture distortion at 180° view
  • some picture distortion at 180° view,
 

contrast

1.5

  • lower than average contrast ratio
  • contrast and automated settigns
 

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