USE THE CODE TVS10 TO GET 10% OFF. FASTRACK AVAILABLE Ultra HD HDR TV gives up to 4x the resolution of Full HD. Enjoy movies, shows, and games from Google Play, YouTube and other Apps. Ambilight makes your viewing experience more immersive—by emitting a glow from two-sides of your TV. Comes with a 2 year guarantee. ITV, All 4 and 50D catch-up apps are not available.
Ambilight technology is unique to philips and provides an immersive viewing experience. You can adjust the style depending on your needs. This philips tv recieves irish channels in ireland through the mpeg 4 feature.
Google Play movies, Google Play games, Google Play music, Netflix, BBC iplayer, BBC news, BBC sport, Youtube, Google Cast.
Top comments
coullgfx
14 Dec 165#8
i have 43", it is 8 bit 4k, picture isn't the best compared to my 1080p sony bravia. Although it is much clearer when displaying 4k resolutions.
The android interface is terrible, it is slowish and laggy compared to my NVidia shield. Can never seem to get Netflix to load. Now and again volume bar disappears completely, or source button doesn't change channels between hdmi imputs. This requires a hard reset.
I have also encountered a crash where google services stops working, then you cant change channels or get into settings etc without error messages.
This needed a firmware downgrade to fix.
But now TV is working fine, without using android interface to any extent, thanks to my shield.
But the one saving grace, and I really mean this...
... the ambilight is AMAZING!!
I cant get over how much it brings to my viewing experience, whether it be movies/tv shows, the footy or some xbox gaming. I absolutely love it, and can look past all the quirks to keep this genius innovation only available to Philips TV's.
P.S I paid £340 for 43", it would cost more than double that for a proper good 4K high spec tv, so I got what I paid for really
Gentle_Giant
14 Dec 163#6
Pros = Cheap, and Philips tend to have excellent screens.
Cons = almost certainly 1st gen 4K, and Philips havent got the best reliability record on the gubbins round the back.
For £50 more you can get some Samsung and LG models which generally are more reliable, and have better smart features; even if the screen isnt quite as good out of the box.
All comments (47)
discoman2016
14 Dec 161#1
Code TVS10 works on tvs over £299
hass123
14 Dec 161#2
8 bit or 10 bit?
emiratesstadium to hass123
14 Dec 16#3
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Rob2404
14 Dec 16#4
I have this TV, great value and Android on it also is a bonus! Sound OK but worth getting a soundbar.
Pros = Cheap, and Philips tend to have excellent screens.
Cons = almost certainly 1st gen 4K, and Philips havent got the best reliability record on the gubbins round the back.
For £50 more you can get some Samsung and LG models which generally are more reliable, and have better smart features; even if the screen isnt quite as good out of the box.
you_gotta_be_kidding to Gentle_Giant
14 Dec 16#11
agree on build quality but for smart I disagree, I have a 2016 model samsung in our living room and a 43 inch one of these in the kids playroom, the Phillips smart blows the samsung out of the water. really impressed, especially having a netflix button. browsing through my NAS is twice a fast on the Phillips than the samsung which is surprising as I think these are dual core and the samsung is quad.
s24adm to Gentle_Giant
14 Dec 16#16
It doesn't get much more "smart" than this. We have a couple samsungs, an lg, a sharp and two of these Philips sets in the house and the Philips' can do pretty much anything I ask via android or casting or the USB ports. I find the 4K Samsung smarts quite laggy in comparison to this set and more proprietary in comparison (needs Samsung apps etc). Plus ambilight is incredible.
Leviathan2016
14 Dec 16#7
great price
coullgfx
14 Dec 165#8
i have 43", it is 8 bit 4k, picture isn't the best compared to my 1080p sony bravia. Although it is much clearer when displaying 4k resolutions.
The android interface is terrible, it is slowish and laggy compared to my NVidia shield. Can never seem to get Netflix to load. Now and again volume bar disappears completely, or source button doesn't change channels between hdmi imputs. This requires a hard reset.
I have also encountered a crash where google services stops working, then you cant change channels or get into settings etc without error messages.
This needed a firmware downgrade to fix.
But now TV is working fine, without using android interface to any extent, thanks to my shield.
But the one saving grace, and I really mean this...
... the ambilight is AMAZING!!
I cant get over how much it brings to my viewing experience, whether it be movies/tv shows, the footy or some xbox gaming. I absolutely love it, and can look past all the quirks to keep this genius innovation only available to Philips TV's.
P.S I paid £340 for 43", it would cost more than double that for a proper good 4K high spec tv, so I got what I paid for really
spruceyb to coullgfx
14 Dec 16#10
I got the same for £340ish, haven't had any problems with the Android TV interface other than Leanback Launcher crashing once and YouTube crashing a couple of times. Netflix always loads up super fast, Kodi runs fine (except won't do Samba with my WD Cloud so using UPNP instead.
I don't use the built in TV tuners though, just have a Sky Q box hooked up to it.
Ambilight is totally awesome. Have a Hue bulb in my living room too, planning to get a couple of Hue Blooms for the side walls too for some real immersion.
Even if you find the built-in Android TV isn't the greatest it's still miles better than WebOS on LG TVs.
waterloo
14 Dec 161#9
Bargain for a ambilight set with this screen size but not made by philips in europe anymore they stopped making tvs 4 yrs ago its now made by Funai tpv in china.
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Opening post
Ambilight technology is unique to philips and provides an immersive viewing experience. You can adjust the style depending on your needs. This philips tv recieves irish channels in ireland through the mpeg 4 feature.
Google Play movies, Google Play games, Google Play music, Netflix, BBC iplayer, BBC news, BBC sport, Youtube, Google Cast.
Top comments
The android interface is terrible, it is slowish and laggy compared to my NVidia shield. Can never seem to get Netflix to load. Now and again volume bar disappears completely, or source button doesn't change channels between hdmi imputs. This requires a hard reset.
I have also encountered a crash where google services stops working, then you cant change channels or get into settings etc without error messages.
This needed a firmware downgrade to fix.
But now TV is working fine, without using android interface to any extent, thanks to my shield.
But the one saving grace, and I really mean this...
... the ambilight is AMAZING!!
I cant get over how much it brings to my viewing experience, whether it be movies/tv shows, the footy or some xbox gaming. I absolutely love it, and can look past all the quirks to keep this genius innovation only available to Philips TV's.
P.S I paid £340 for 43", it would cost more than double that for a proper good 4K high spec tv, so I got what I paid for really
Cons = almost certainly 1st gen 4K, and Philips havent got the best reliability record on the gubbins round the back.
For £50 more you can get some Samsung and LG models which generally are more reliable, and have better smart features; even if the screen isnt quite as good out of the box.
All comments (47)
Cons = almost certainly 1st gen 4K, and Philips havent got the best reliability record on the gubbins round the back.
For £50 more you can get some Samsung and LG models which generally are more reliable, and have better smart features; even if the screen isnt quite as good out of the box.
The android interface is terrible, it is slowish and laggy compared to my NVidia shield. Can never seem to get Netflix to load. Now and again volume bar disappears completely, or source button doesn't change channels between hdmi imputs. This requires a hard reset.
I have also encountered a crash where google services stops working, then you cant change channels or get into settings etc without error messages.
This needed a firmware downgrade to fix.
But now TV is working fine, without using android interface to any extent, thanks to my shield.
But the one saving grace, and I really mean this...
... the ambilight is AMAZING!!
I cant get over how much it brings to my viewing experience, whether it be movies/tv shows, the footy or some xbox gaming. I absolutely love it, and can look past all the quirks to keep this genius innovation only available to Philips TV's.
P.S I paid £340 for 43", it would cost more than double that for a proper good 4K high spec tv, so I got what I paid for really
I don't use the built in TV tuners though, just have a Sky Q box hooked up to it.
Ambilight is totally awesome. Have a Hue bulb in my living room too, planning to get a couple of Hue Blooms for the side walls too for some real immersion.
Even if you find the built-in Android TV isn't the greatest it's still miles better than WebOS on LG TVs.