Archive for the 'Philips' Category
Philips 42PF9631D Review
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Philips’s flat TVs have always brought unique designs to the table, and for the last couple of years, they’ve usually included a feature that’s completely unique to the Dutch company: Ambilight. These back-mounted fluorescent lights can be set to display a constant color, which can help ease eyestrain in a darkened room, or to follow [...]
Philips 37PF9631D Review
Saturday, November 4th, 2006Philips has, by now, established its maverick street cred by installing Ambilight on a large number of its flat-panel HDTVs. The 37-inch 37PF9631D LCD TV is one of the least expensive, and its back panel does indeed bear those two multicolored banks of fluorescent lights, designed to shine upon the wall behind the set, either [...]
Philips 42PF9831D
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006We’ve tested a few of Philips’s Ambilight-imbued TVs over the last couple of years, including models such as the 42PF9830A LCD and the 42PF9630A plasma, but we’ve never been sold. The idea says that a set of lights that illuminate the area behind the TV–and change in color and intensity along with the onscreen image–can [...]
Philips 42PF9830A
Friday, May 19th, 2006The tremendous popularity of flat-panel HDTVs shows no signs of slowing down, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether they’re plasmas or LCDs, as long as they’re flat. Philips’s 2005 lineup includes both technologies and doesn’t do much to differentiate between them; the company’s flagship 42-inch flat-panel LCD, model 42PF9830A, is a perfect example of [...]
