Someones b*tch in a prison.

I had this.

It's okay.

Went back.

Kept the Hisense 55 4K instead.

About the same price.

Infinitely better picture.

Alot of people returned this the last time it was posted, blacks being Grey, picture being overall bad etc. Turned me of it.

Calibrated settings video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBuf7kEQnI
Display lag Test video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_0uI2VKEj8

If it's like the 43" (which I suspect it is), the SD picture is woeful. Took my 43" back. Dont know how Philips are still in the game!

Philips stuff is generally good, but they just don't seem to make great TV's.

However cracking value.

A review for the 6xxx model suggests the following:

They recommend... For the record, the areas I'd recommend you spend the most time playing with are noise reduction (I'd suggest switching this off for all UHD and most HD content); the Natural Motion system (which should never be set higher than its lowest power setting, or else turned off entirely); the Contrast mode (which should be set to Standard rather than Best For Picture or Best For Power); the Ultra Resolution system (which I would recommend turning off for most content); and the Dynamic Contrast feature (which I would suggest you only use on its Minimum level).

I have the 40" version (40put6400). I am finding the colours are a bit washed out compared to my old Samsung smart TV. Anyone know what settings would give me the best picture?

The blacks really are grey on this. I've tried multiple configs. looks great during the day and Black's look dark but in dark lighting and at night a grey sheen seems to eminate unfortunately.

Picture style - movie
Colour - 70
Contrast 72
Sharpness - 2
Advanced:
Activity style - game
Colour - colour enhancement - minimum
Colour - colour temperature - normal
Contrast - contrast modes off
Contrast -Dynamic contrast - minimum
Contrast - Brightness - 60
Contrast - Video contrast - 80
Contrast - Gamma - minus 1
Sharpness - ultra res - on
Sharpness - noise reduc - off
Sharpness - MPEG reduc - off

The settings that worked best for me were:

Box it back up. Send it back.

I'd also be really interested to see how anybody got a decent picture out of this.

Spent ages fiddling with the settings!

Managed to get them much improved from "out the box", but the picture was still really poor compared to me old 1080 Samsung set, and they were still worse than the Hisense I ended up keeping was "out the box".

Presume this is a rebadged cheap set or something, because I was a bit shocked given I've always associated Phillips with making decent quality stuff.

I'm interested in hearing about your settings too! Please could you update me as well?

For a 55inch 4K telly, can't complain - managed to get this for just under £405 with the 10% off offer they had a couple of weeks ago, plus vouchers I had that needed using up - ended up only paying £290 cash. Obviously not as great as Samsung, Sony, LG or other high end brands but for what I paid for it, definitely a bargain! Ultimately, I got a 55inch 4K telly for under £300! Can't complain and haven't experienced any issues with the HDMI as I did the update staright out of the box.

I'd like these also, thanks

​I done the same. Done the firmware upgrade, spent ages messing with settings. Put it side by side with my 10 year old Sony and put the dark Knight bluray through both. Sony was still miles better! Took it back for a refund

Yes please for me aswell if you can message settings that would be good my 43" is sitting in a box at moment till I move house

Please do, thanks

No go, you need to be waiting for HDR.

bought the 43 inch last week for my bedroom tv. was worried about input lag as also using it for a gaming pc monitor but cant seem to tell the diffrence between my sony w8 in the livingroom ( seemingly good response times) and this......never watched anything standard defenition on it mind so cant comment on that but at least 720 content looks pretty good to me.
Have noticed the greyish blacks as mentoined previously but tweaking the picture settings (all presets are rubbish) has made it infinitely better.
Heat from me.

input lag?

I had the 55" 6400, motion blur and input lag was poor. It was kind of a blessing when it broke Thursday (random crashing and wouldnt turn on)and I returned to Argos and replaced for a Samsung!

rubbish sd picture and unreliable hdmi ports.

bad motion blur on sports

had one and took it back

It's the 55" 391u model.

Cost me £449 from Argos using the eBay 20% off voucher a while back.

Think the cheapest you can get it now is at AO for £499.

Honestly blew this out the water picture wise.

don't really know why the original post has been expired http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/philips-55-4k-ultra-hd-tv-55put4900-was-549-now-449-argos-2421999?page=12#comments been this price for a few weeks now

Alot of people returned this the last time it was posted, blacks being Grey, picture being overall bad etc. Turned me of it.

If this is like other philips tvs that have a speaker on the back be prepared to buy a sound bar if you wall mount it. The sound echoes from the rear wall and sounds awful.

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Don't buy this. You will be disappointed when you fire it up.

I had this.

It's okay.

Went back.

Kept the Hisense 55 4K instead.

About the same price.

Infinitely better picture.

We got this for £394 after cashback etc a few weeks ago. Black is very grey, HDMI 2 has a tendency to tune out of its own accord and picture quality not that much better than our 10 yr old HD Samsung. Disappointing but keeping it until it really goes wrong by which time hopefully a better one will be on a similar price deal!

I have this - it's superb

So cheap if buying now ,but after seeing last weeks Click going on about HDR tvs that seems the way to go if you can wait to buy when prices come down?.

Great find cheapest 55inch 4K tv out there heat added.

great find thanks op! heat added!