Any word on the Philips pw9570 ???

It would appear to be their successor to the pw9509.

Philips website spec's seem similar to 9509 so I'm a little confuzzed as to the difference if it's more than cosmetic (although it doesn't look too different neither).

The only reason it stood out was that I found it on line for £699.99 which seems very reasonable for PP2 technology on a 32"-er

Views please ...

Ok, this is now down to 499.99 at Curry's / Dixons. Any reason not to go for this Pixel Plus 2 Philips TV which appears to have replaced the 9509 on their website for under £500 (just)....???

Anyone know of this unit in any respect...? Looking at making a purchase and this price could be just too good to miss.

[Peritas]

I also noticed this, but cant find much info on it..

Better buy than the 32ZP48P ?

Hope so, just put myself down for one.. at that price, I couldn't wait on any longer...

In the same dilemma myself over the 9570.

Had been intending to get a 9509, until the incidence of people with problems with it seemed to grow to a level where it didn't just seem to be over-picky technophiles.

The then 'disappeance' of the model from just about everywhere seemed to underline that. Not sure how long the 9509 was on sale but can't have been many months as I was at one point going to get the 9309, until the 9509 popped up. 4-6months?

Anyway, done some digging on the 9509 vs 9570, and the only things I can see are

Cosmetically

A CineOS logo on the 9570, and no Matchline logo

Specs

After comparing the spec docs for the 9509 (no longer on philips website but had saved a copy) and 9570 there are differences...

9570 has a different remote control - 2 additional buttons
9570 seems to consume 20W less power
9570 doesn't have Cinemalink
9570 Doesn't state blackline S tube.


My feeling is the latter is the most significant difference, and probably why the 9570 has been introduced at a lower price point.Could also have been the probs with the 9509?

Asked the sales staff in currys the same question as the out of town store I went to had a 9570 (at £499) alongside a 9509 (£998!). Predictably, I could have guessed they would just read the little spec card on the front, and say one was a discontinued model, and so we were able to buy the 9570's in bulk....should have gone to a palm-reader for more accurate sales info.

Having said that all that, an absolute steal at £499 (cheapest anywhere)...ordering mine later today!

I notice the Blackline is only offered on the old 6008 model so maybe Philips have dropped it from their products, or come up with something else instead.

I bought this model from Currys just yesterday and I must say that I have never seen a screen so vivid, the screen just seems to jump out at you, its almost 3D. At first it was a novalty but after a while it was just too much on the eyes so I turned it down, do you know that Data under all that white makup has mega spots on his face? lol, I have never noiticed his 'problem' before.

Under 'Smart picture' menu you have
Personal
Rich
Natural
Soft
Multimedia
ECO

The 'Rich' setting is just too rich for me but others will undoubtedly like it.

One minor gripe for me is the headphone setup. All TV's I have had inserting the headphone plug disconnected the TV's speakers. Not so on this model, the handbook says to use mute which mutes the main speakers but allows you to use your headphones. Problems I can see is that everyones in bed and you are listening through the headphones, you accidently touch the remotes volume button resulting in whatever you are listening to blaring out of the TV's speakers waking up your annoyed loved ones neighbours etc and you not knowing about it until you get something thrown at you...

I choose not to use mute but rather just turn the sound right down. Oh to alter the headphone volume you have to go into the menu settings to alter it..

The other gripe I have is that under the default settings there is no volume bar displayed on screen when changing volume. I like to see where I'm at here. Going into a sub menu gets the bar up but you will also get displayed in the top left corner whatever side you are watching permantly displayed there, annoying....

Saying all this I am very happy with the picture, sound and cosmetics, my gripes really are minor but may be significant to some peaple....

Thanks for the update Tonks, puts my mind to rest a little having not actually seen one of these before ordering !

[Neiliboy]

Cheers for that Tonks - that could actually be the only review on this tv to exist in the whole world!

[bear7364]

I'm a new member and joined because this is the only place I could find that had any sort of review on the 32PW9570 !!!!

I have bought one of these sets today and after much travelling to various Currys stores ended up back at at my local one as no one had stock and had to order it to be delivered on Sunday.

Can't wait to get the set as the picture looks amazing plus it has 2 RGB capable scarts which is a neccesity.

Click on link for a bit more info fron the Philips website :

http://www.consumer.philips.com/cons...ESHQFHKFSEKI5P

[Neiliboy]

Just looked at the spec....

No component input

Neil

[IndianaBlues]

Dixons have it for £499 plus free delivery until monday, also if you type pricerunner25off into the promotional code box you get another £25 off...

PS I couldn't actually find it through Dixon's website, but there's a direct link from Pricerunner.co.uk, I was worried that meant Dixons were out of stock and Pricerunner were linking to a cached page, but the system lets you check for stock and order it so I guess it's ok!

[bear7364]

Had a Toshiba TV with component inputs and did not notice much difference when connecting DVD player through this compaered to RGB !

I would say Philips Pixel Plus 2 technology gives better visual results than using a component input anyway, not far off the quality of HDTV.

What do others think ?????

[bash]

Originally Posted by bear7364

I would say Philips Pixel Plus 2 technology gives better visual results than using a component input anyway, not far off the quality of HDTV.

What do others think ?????

ROFL, I disagree.

Anyway, how do you get HD without component inputs from your DVD player apart from HDMI? Get a Tosh TV using component cables with even a bog standard prog scan DVD player and it shizzles all over PP2 IMO.

[shacky]

i went out today to buy 1 of these but stopped as i am not to sure which is best , the tosh or the phillips, what do u guys think ?