pembssurfer
Active Member
Well it wasnt what i was after and i probably should have waited but i sold my tv and wasnt prepared to sit for my 4 holiday days off in utter silence, so here it is my brief review of the philips 37" 1080p 37pfl7662d.
Got it home and unpacked it and everything is great seems reasonably well built and easy to use, and a very sturdy stand for it. First up 1080p content looks stunning on blu-ray with very dynamic colours, bright..plenty of contrast and not to soft...my only bug-bear is the fact despite it saying it will process 24fps via the ps3 (oh yes i checked with the comet sales jockey who couldnt even write the name "adam"), as i thought it indeed struggles with this and judders like a biatch to the point where certain scenes are unwatchable, fine without 24fps selected though in the ps3 settings. I always thought id struggle to get it to do 24fps without any problems at this price and indeed i was right. I may try a more expensive lead however i doubt this will solve the problem.
As for the rest of it, black levels seem pretty good and contrast ratio is good at 5000:1. Saturation is probably average (not as good as a sony w) and iv just watched some football with no apparent motion blur which is always good. Response time is an average of 8ms but capable of 6.
SD Freeview looks fine and a lot better than my old bush HD LCD via a set-top box ever did (which probably isnt hard).
Sound is probably about average compared to the others i heard today in this price range...no better no worse, stereo speakers with an option for fake surround sound.
Connections, this is where it starts falling short of the slightly pricier models....and could be a lot better...only 2 HDMI and no VGA, and the other usual av connections...but fine for my needs at the moment.
SO just to re-iterate....HD material from Blu-ray and xbox 360 looks pretty stunning for the price in some parts, although 24fps via the ps3 is a no go with frame stuttering all over the place, although at this price im not really supprised.
DVD's upscaled via my sony upscaling dvd player are also pretty admirable.
SD material from freeview pretty good although some blockyness more noticeable on the lesser bit-rate channels like setanta sports.
The dynamic mode used to alter backlight settings constantly is pretty noticeable in effect but for all the wrong reasons so iv turned it off for now.
In short my first impression of this tv is that its pretty capable in most areas but not a ground breaker by any strecth of the imagination. But then iv only had 4 or 5 hours with it.
Got it home and unpacked it and everything is great seems reasonably well built and easy to use, and a very sturdy stand for it. First up 1080p content looks stunning on blu-ray with very dynamic colours, bright..plenty of contrast and not to soft...my only bug-bear is the fact despite it saying it will process 24fps via the ps3 (oh yes i checked with the comet sales jockey who couldnt even write the name "adam"), as i thought it indeed struggles with this and judders like a biatch to the point where certain scenes are unwatchable, fine without 24fps selected though in the ps3 settings. I always thought id struggle to get it to do 24fps without any problems at this price and indeed i was right. I may try a more expensive lead however i doubt this will solve the problem.
As for the rest of it, black levels seem pretty good and contrast ratio is good at 5000:1. Saturation is probably average (not as good as a sony w) and iv just watched some football with no apparent motion blur which is always good. Response time is an average of 8ms but capable of 6.
SD Freeview looks fine and a lot better than my old bush HD LCD via a set-top box ever did (which probably isnt hard).
Sound is probably about average compared to the others i heard today in this price range...no better no worse, stereo speakers with an option for fake surround sound.
Connections, this is where it starts falling short of the slightly pricier models....and could be a lot better...only 2 HDMI and no VGA, and the other usual av connections...but fine for my needs at the moment.
SO just to re-iterate....HD material from Blu-ray and xbox 360 looks pretty stunning for the price in some parts, although 24fps via the ps3 is a no go with frame stuttering all over the place, although at this price im not really supprised.
DVD's upscaled via my sony upscaling dvd player are also pretty admirable.
SD material from freeview pretty good although some blockyness more noticeable on the lesser bit-rate channels like setanta sports.
The dynamic mode used to alter backlight settings constantly is pretty noticeable in effect but for all the wrong reasons so iv turned it off for now.
In short my first impression of this tv is that its pretty capable in most areas but not a ground breaker by any strecth of the imagination. But then iv only had 4 or 5 hours with it.
