Philips PF9830 Series LCD TV (32", 37", 42", 50")

Impressive color accuracy with component video. Integrated bias lighting system (Ambilight 2). Tabletop stand with motorized swivel mechanism. Comprehensive scaling options.

The Philips 42PF9830A/37 is a 42-inch LCD HDTV that offers innovative features and an attractive design, but its picture quality suffers greatly from an ineffective video processor that has little effect on common image artifacts.

price is good, features are on the average, picture qualities are below average.

everything is average, nothing outstanding.

Unfortunately there are people rating and reviewing this model and other Philips sets that they don't even own, or have ever seen. You will see some examples of this if you read the other reviews on this set. They may have had bad luck with one Philips...

Good picture for 42" LCD, easy settings. Cheap-$999 @ Fry's

Remote have nice designs but very basic looking.

I own the 50" Ambilight and it has turned out to be a fantastic TV. At first, my wife and I were a bit skeptical that the ambilight was just a gimic, but we went ahead with the purchase. As it turns out we both LOVE the ambilight feature. It really...

Ambilight looks cool on the wall

Customer Support is appalling

Ambilight looks cool on the wall

Customer Support is appalling

Good picture quality, HDMI output

Unreliable. Poor software ; poor hardware

picture quality, number of connection options, overall product quality

number of connection options!

I'm an extremely dissatisfied customer of Philips and I own the Ambilight model (50PF9630A/37). Well, I kind of own it. I pay for it while it sits in the service center. I had it for 7 months prior to the recall of almost 12,000 Philips TVs with...