Philips bespoke P5 processing series has been an outstanding success with the company’s OLED models winning more than 43 Awards across European media in 2018 alone and 54 in total so far - helping to re-establish Philips as a premium TV brand more than capable of competing at the highest-end of the market.
All P5 processors work on perfecting the five key elements to good picture quality: Source quality, sharpness, colour, contrast and motion. New for 2019 is the 3rd Gen P5, now implemented in a special two-chip arrangement, that maintains the optimised order of processing of the original P5 but adds additional computational power to key intensive parts of the processing chain – the overall result is a doubling of the processing power and a 30% PQ improvement over the already market leading 2nd generation P5 chip.
3rd Gen P5 brings reference quality images to the new flagship OLED+984 and OLED+934 models with their superb Bowers & Wilkins sounds systems – the details of which will be discussed in a sperate post. The new 3rd Gen P5 also gives an identical picture performance in the new 804/854 OLED models,
In all cases, the new processing engine has the power to bring PQ improvements to both Philips TV’s unique Perfect Natural Reality feature, plus better overall HDR performance for both HDR10 & HDR10+ sources.
The Philips TV PQ team has also worked in close partnership with Dolby Labs to allow the key benefits of P5 to be optimised for Dolby Vision encoded HDR content, which in the case of the 3rd generation P5 has brought improvements including lower noise and artefacts, to produce a picture that is both sharper and smoother.
If you’d like more information, look out for news coming soon of an exciting AV Forums Readers’ event with our partners at Dolby, and giving the opportunity to explore Dolby Vision and see our 2019 sets performance first-hand.
P5 Picture improvements
The 3rd Gen P5 processing engine brings a much-improved performance to Philips unique, and widely praised Perfect Natural Reality feature. As most content is still available in SDR, the Perfect Natural Reality ability to upscale SDR content to full HDR performance is still essential for most consumers.
3rd Gen P5 features an improved inverse tone mapping technology for both local and global contrast enhancement. New for 2019 is a specular detection function plus better regional classification and skin tone protection. This combination produces a more realistic image with better detail and more depth impression, contrast, sharpness and improved colours.
Most importantly, PNR can offer better colour and contrast while also offering an improved performance for skin tones to ensure they always look natural and realistic.
Other overall performance improvements offered by the 3rd Gen P5 include an improved Digital Noise Reduction function thanks to additional de-contour enhancement, enhanced Bit-depth calculation and increased sparse filtering, to give a cleaner and sharper picture.
An improved Detail Enhancer now features a Detail Protection and Restoration function to accurately transform original pixels into sharper pixels while dejaggy filtering works to effectively narrow low and high angle diagonal lines to result in a visibly more refined image with finer lines, and greater, deeper details.
Better HDR performance
Outstanding HDR performance has always been a strength of the P5 processing engine but the 3rd Gen P5 still manages to offer improvements in three areas.
More detail becomes visible in very dark scenes. Rather than ‘crushed’ black, the 3rd Gen P5 uses its additional power and increased bit resolution to ensure no loss of detail occurs in the darkest images.
Secondly, 3rd Gen P5 can also improve performance in bright scenes, with the increase in bit resolution and bit depth ensuring that no colour clipping occurs.
Finally, the 3rd Gen P5 can more accurately reproduce subtle colour nuances and can remove colour banding.
In short, the performance of all P5 equipped Philips OLED TVs has been widely acknowledged as outstanding over the past two years but with the 3rd Gen P5 the company has been able to offer distinct enhancements to the reproduction of both SDR and HDR content to ensure that the 2019 Philips OLEDs retain their place as the reference PQ standard at the premium segment of the market.
All P5 processors work on perfecting the five key elements to good picture quality: Source quality, sharpness, colour, contrast and motion. New for 2019 is the 3rd Gen P5, now implemented in a special two-chip arrangement, that maintains the optimised order of processing of the original P5 but adds additional computational power to key intensive parts of the processing chain – the overall result is a doubling of the processing power and a 30% PQ improvement over the already market leading 2nd generation P5 chip.
3rd Gen P5 brings reference quality images to the new flagship OLED+984 and OLED+934 models with their superb Bowers & Wilkins sounds systems – the details of which will be discussed in a sperate post. The new 3rd Gen P5 also gives an identical picture performance in the new 804/854 OLED models,
In all cases, the new processing engine has the power to bring PQ improvements to both Philips TV’s unique Perfect Natural Reality feature, plus better overall HDR performance for both HDR10 & HDR10+ sources.
The Philips TV PQ team has also worked in close partnership with Dolby Labs to allow the key benefits of P5 to be optimised for Dolby Vision encoded HDR content, which in the case of the 3rd generation P5 has brought improvements including lower noise and artefacts, to produce a picture that is both sharper and smoother.
If you’d like more information, look out for news coming soon of an exciting AV Forums Readers’ event with our partners at Dolby, and giving the opportunity to explore Dolby Vision and see our 2019 sets performance first-hand.
P5 Picture improvements
The 3rd Gen P5 processing engine brings a much-improved performance to Philips unique, and widely praised Perfect Natural Reality feature. As most content is still available in SDR, the Perfect Natural Reality ability to upscale SDR content to full HDR performance is still essential for most consumers.
3rd Gen P5 features an improved inverse tone mapping technology for both local and global contrast enhancement. New for 2019 is a specular detection function plus better regional classification and skin tone protection. This combination produces a more realistic image with better detail and more depth impression, contrast, sharpness and improved colours.
Most importantly, PNR can offer better colour and contrast while also offering an improved performance for skin tones to ensure they always look natural and realistic.
Other overall performance improvements offered by the 3rd Gen P5 include an improved Digital Noise Reduction function thanks to additional de-contour enhancement, enhanced Bit-depth calculation and increased sparse filtering, to give a cleaner and sharper picture.
An improved Detail Enhancer now features a Detail Protection and Restoration function to accurately transform original pixels into sharper pixels while dejaggy filtering works to effectively narrow low and high angle diagonal lines to result in a visibly more refined image with finer lines, and greater, deeper details.
Better HDR performance
Outstanding HDR performance has always been a strength of the P5 processing engine but the 3rd Gen P5 still manages to offer improvements in three areas.
More detail becomes visible in very dark scenes. Rather than ‘crushed’ black, the 3rd Gen P5 uses its additional power and increased bit resolution to ensure no loss of detail occurs in the darkest images.
Secondly, 3rd Gen P5 can also improve performance in bright scenes, with the increase in bit resolution and bit depth ensuring that no colour clipping occurs.
Finally, the 3rd Gen P5 can more accurately reproduce subtle colour nuances and can remove colour banding.
In short, the performance of all P5 equipped Philips OLED TVs has been widely acknowledged as outstanding over the past two years but with the 3rd Gen P5 the company has been able to offer distinct enhancements to the reproduction of both SDR and HDR content to ensure that the 2019 Philips OLEDs retain their place as the reference PQ standard at the premium segment of the market.