This was a great deal a week ago at £521.10. This is now £449.10 with code TV10. £499 without code. This only runs until Saturday though so get in quick!
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.
Television picture quality:
LED TV Screen.
4K Ultra HD display resolution.
Screen size: 55 inches.
Motion rate 1000.
Viewing angle 176/176 degrees.
Resolution 3840 x 2160 pixels.
Connectivity:
1 SCART socket, 3 USB ports and 4 HDMI sockets.
Smart TV.
1 DVI socket.
Component video socket.
Optical connection.
Headphone socket.
Wi-Fi enabled.
Ethernet connection.
DLNA compatibility.
Open browser.
Suitable for wall mounting 400 x 200 bracket.
Sound quality:
2 channel sound system.
20 watt RMS power output.
Digital features:
Features USB recording and video playback.
Micro dimming technology improves the contrast by dimming individual sections of the TV screen.
Freeview HD digital tuner.
Quad core processor.
CI plus slot.
Additional features:
Sleep timer.
Size of TV H72.5, W124, D8.5cm.
Weight of TV 16kg (unpackaged).
Size of TV with stand: H78, W124, D23.2cm.
Footprint of TV 83cm.
Weight of TV with stand: 16.3kg.
Manufacturer's 2 year guarantee.
Energy efficiency information:
Energy efficiency rating: a.
On mode power consumption 91 watts.
Off mode power consumption 0.3 watt.
Annual power consumption 133kWh.
Standby power consumption 0.3 watt.
This product contains lead.
Top comments
misterleoni
10 Mar 1711#34
fine, do that. I wouldn't spend money on an OLED as it stands, and how much future proofing can you ever get from a TV? Buy this now for 3 years, sell for £100, buy a 55" OLED in three years for £460. Much more sensible in my opinion.
Talking of OLED as 'future proofing' is potentially flawed anyway, since the organic subpixels in OLED TVs deteriorate significantly faster than the LED lamps in these TVs. So in six years' time - assuming the rest of the hardware still works - an LED TV will have lost very little brightness where an OLED panel will be discernibly dimmer. Not to mention the likelihood of patchy 'ghost' artefacts from the more accelerated blue subpixel deterioration in OLED panels. There is no way to make them last longer as they are organic compounds, so manufacturers try to lessen the effect by having the display move imperceptibly. Over time you'll still get a build up of patchy screen ghosting either way.
OLED panels look great, but they are astronomically more expensive and certainly don't count as 'future proofing' in my book, for the reasons outlined - on top of the fact that prices will plummet a lot faster than LEDs at some point. It still makes sense to buy a TV like this.
EndlessWaves
10 Mar 175#11
No. TP Vision, who run the Philips TV brand, are a display company. They also make AOC monitors.
Plenty of people still have DVD players or older consoles that get used on a regular basis and don't have an HDMI output.
This isn't an HDR TV, it's support is limited to the ability to read HDR content and adjust the whole screen brightness based on that. There's no local dimming or wider colour gamut.
The KS7000 is the minimum you want if you're buying for HDR, and it's seriously worth considering spending another £500 on something like a DX902.
OLEDs don't tend to do that well in side by side HDR comparisons because they can't do those bright highlights, and there's the colour desaturation at high brightness caused by the white subpixels in LG's OLED panels.
john184
11 Mar 174#86
Connected my N64 up using SCART the other day to my HDR Panasonic. Works well. Thanks SCART.
misterleoni
12 Mar 173#156
I think this expired yesterday. So to summarise:
Most people who bought this seem happy - including myself
Some people who didn't buy this think it would have made more sense for us to spend an extra £1200 on an OLED one for future proofing.
Good deal, OP.
All comments (320)
kpmatthews
10 Mar 17#1
Will this be a Vestel TV?
TheBiker
10 Mar 173#2
Whats with the SCART socket, most people won't know what a SCART socket is let alone ever need one.
COLD from me for having a SCART socket.
Perhaps its a special 4K SCART socket?
thedixon
10 Mar 171#3
Can't recommend this TV enough. Have the 49" version when that was on sale 6 months back. The ambilight may sound like a gimmick, but it's really immersive. Added bonus it'll sync with any Hue lights you have in your home.
kilmac
10 Mar 171#4
Closest i've been to upgrading our tv with this deal. Am I better putting the extra money in and getting the Samsung KS7000 for HDR or waiting for an OLED? AAAHHH so many different tvs with different specs!
kpmatthews
10 Mar 171#5
get it delivered with argos, think sameday delivery is around £3, then you can send it back if you don't like it.
borosidf
10 Mar 17#6
this or the lil smaller LG 49UH650V 49 Inch Web OS SMART 4K Ultra HD TV with HDR? need it for xbox one gaming and watch moovies nothing hardcore or special
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Opening post
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.
Television picture quality:
LED TV Screen.
4K Ultra HD display resolution.
Screen size: 55 inches.
Motion rate 1000.
Viewing angle 176/176 degrees.
Resolution 3840 x 2160 pixels.
Connectivity:
1 SCART socket, 3 USB ports and 4 HDMI sockets.
Smart TV.
1 DVI socket.
Component video socket.
Optical connection.
Headphone socket.
Wi-Fi enabled.
Ethernet connection.
DLNA compatibility.
Open browser.
Suitable for wall mounting 400 x 200 bracket.
Sound quality:
2 channel sound system.
20 watt RMS power output.
Digital features:
Features USB recording and video playback.
Micro dimming technology improves the contrast by dimming individual sections of the TV screen.
Freeview HD digital tuner.
Quad core processor.
CI plus slot.
Additional features:
Sleep timer.
Size of TV H72.5, W124, D8.5cm.
Weight of TV 16kg (unpackaged).
Size of TV with stand: H78, W124, D23.2cm.
Footprint of TV 83cm.
Weight of TV with stand: 16.3kg.
Manufacturer's 2 year guarantee.
Energy efficiency information:
Energy efficiency rating: a.
On mode power consumption 91 watts.
Off mode power consumption 0.3 watt.
Annual power consumption 133kWh.
Standby power consumption 0.3 watt.
This product contains lead.
Top comments
Talking of OLED as 'future proofing' is potentially flawed anyway, since the organic subpixels in OLED TVs deteriorate significantly faster than the LED lamps in these TVs. So in six years' time - assuming the rest of the hardware still works - an LED TV will have lost very little brightness where an OLED panel will be discernibly dimmer. Not to mention the likelihood of patchy 'ghost' artefacts from the more accelerated blue subpixel deterioration in OLED panels. There is no way to make them last longer as they are organic compounds, so manufacturers try to lessen the effect by having the display move imperceptibly. Over time you'll still get a build up of patchy screen ghosting either way.
OLED panels look great, but they are astronomically more expensive and certainly don't count as 'future proofing' in my book, for the reasons outlined - on top of the fact that prices will plummet a lot faster than LEDs at some point. It still makes sense to buy a TV like this.
Plenty of people still have DVD players or older consoles that get used on a regular basis and don't have an HDMI output.
This isn't an HDR TV, it's support is limited to the ability to read HDR content and adjust the whole screen brightness based on that. There's no local dimming or wider colour gamut.
The KS7000 is the minimum you want if you're buying for HDR, and it's seriously worth considering spending another £500 on something like a DX902.
OLEDs don't tend to do that well in side by side HDR comparisons because they can't do those bright highlights, and there's the colour desaturation at high brightness caused by the white subpixels in LG's OLED panels.
Most people who bought this seem happy - including myself
Some people who didn't buy this think it would have made more sense for us to spend an extra £1200 on an OLED one for future proofing.
Good deal, OP.
All comments (320)
COLD from me for having a SCART socket.
Perhaps its a special 4K SCART socket?
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