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Posted 10 March 2017
Philips 55PUS6401 55 Inch Smart 4k TV Ultra HD TV with HDR with TV10 code £449.10 Argos
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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.
£4.49 TopCashBack or £4.53 if having delivered.
- Shambles
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.
£4.49 TopCashBack or £4.53 if having delivered.
- Shambles
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329 Comments
sorted byfine, 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.
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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.
I own the 55PUS6401 and I can confirm my Xbox One S recognises the TV as HDR 10 and my NVIDIA Shield TV shows it supports 10-bit and 12-bit Rec.2020. The TV changes to HDR mode when it receives a HDR input. It's not a huge difference to SDR due to being only 350nits, however there is a difference. I've not had it long so only tried an episode of The Grand Tour and the first few minutes of Hacksaw Ridge in 4K HDR but both look very good. 1080P material also looks good.
Having previously owned Plasma I don't think any LCD TV's are good enough so I've bought this cheap TV to put me on until OLED is more developed and affordable.
The Ambilight on this TV is a nice feature and does help with perceived black levels when used in either colour changing mode or just as a D65 bias light.
I've not seen any reviews saying the picture is dire but I would be interested to read them.
I've seen conflicting information regarding whether the panel is 10 bit or not as information I found from a Philips press event states that it is.
I also haven't noticed any issues with lag using the TV interface and have read a review of the 6501 which uses the same quad core processor commenting on how nippy it is. According to the Philips support forums an update to android 6 is also imminent.
According to the press event report I saw this TV was always intended to support HDR10, prehaps it just didn't ship with the required software as it wasn't ready for the release date (and probably wasn't considered a priority on a bottom end TV). Here is a one of the slides from the 2016 TV event:
I do agree there are better HDR TV's available but these are 2-3+ times the price and still have issues. I couldn't justify that kind of outlay and still have to accept compromises.
COLD from me for having a SCART socket.
Perhaps its a special 4K SCART socket?
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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.
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Changelog:
QM163E_U_0.6.188.12 – Date: 2017/03/08
- Introduction of “How-To” app and re-arranged Settings shelf
- Improved reaction of Bluetooth Remote Control connection
- Improvements for stability
- Improved discovery of DLNA servers
- Improved DVB-C reception on certain frequencies
- Fix for Dropbox Login issue
- Fix for some notifications remaining on screen and some notifications being absent
- Fix for Ambilight Hue connection loss with specific routers (e.g. Fritz!Box)
- Fix for RTL XL issue
- Fix for Videotext "888" and “889” not getting re-abled after commercial break
- Fix for incorrect picture format when using Picture Style “Computer”
- HDR playback improvements
- Lower latency in GameFly usecase
- Fixed translation errors
- Fix for inability to control volume on certain sound bars (e.g. Samsung HW-K450)
- Fix for incorrect AV sync during playback of recording
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get it delivered with argos, think sameday delivery is around £3, then you can send it back if you don't like it.
3.5/5
Listing has been updated, it wasn't that price earlier
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You're mental.
I bet all them supposedly 4K tellys have analogue tuners in them too. What a cliche.
don't care about picture reviews - bunch of nerds waving willies. bought the 49" version myself on a whim about six months back and the picture is fantastic to my eyes. Maybe I should chuck it in the bin though, since the reviews are so dire...
Going to order this for downstairs.
Yeah too many cliches for me. Not a SCART connection in the house, all HDMI. VHS went to the dump years ago.
WHY would anyone want a 4K TV with a SCART connection. Beggars belief IMHO.
MOST people would want a Blu-Ray player that supports 4K through HDMI.
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Really? You sir/madam are ridiculous.
The picture quality was very good in both HD and 4K, didn't use the HDR feature, bright and colourful with plenty of settings so you can tweak it and get it right. Inputs are sufficient and plentiful for the average household. The design is lovely, slim with a tiny silver bezel around the edge, feet are small but sturdy and solid.
The interface is messy and non uniform, things aren't where you'd expect them to be, these aren't nice on my slight OCD, so another reason it had to go back. It seems to run the Android OS through the processor, plus the Philips interface runs though the same processor thus the entire lot becomes laggy. It has to switch between Android, the TV, and the Guide like it has simultaneous OS's running at the same time, or opens them like they're both apps.
Had an older Philips TV just as the Smart features became popular but it wasn't an Android Quad core machine, it was a standard boring Philips built interface, and I've got to say that was terrible also. It was even slower and laggier, harder to use and very messy, which made me loose my faith with Philips. Decided to give them a try with a brand new model, but that's it for me with Philips. Their TV quality has been bad from the beginning and it's not getting better, so I've gone to LG and I'm impressed. I have the Philips Hue 2.0 lightbulb kit which I am again impressed with, so maybe Philips just can't figure out how to make a good TV interface which lets it down for me.
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I don't find the interface laggy or slow, screen uniformity is good too with no noticeable bleed, clouding or banding (annoying on sport).....I hope this helps someone as these where the concerns I had but due to Argos being so good with returns I took the gamble and I'm glad I did.
Went out and bought one of these last night, my third 4K TV in the space of a few months, both the Samsung KS7000 and Sony KD55XD8599BU let me down (Sony bad light bleed, Samsung refused to turn on, both were bought when on offer and when returned, were out of stock).
Big time Sony fan and interested in Samsung products but decided to hold fire to see what else was about, saw this deal and figured I'd take a punt at £450.
I'm amazed, other than the light bleed issue on the Sony, the picture seems on par. Please note that I am not a professional nor do I claim to be, but to my eyes (and I'm fussy) I really can't see any difference.
There's a touch of light bleed round the edges but I've managed to massage those out with tweeking the settings to a point they're barely visible. I've resided myself to the fact that I'd have to change the TV numerous times to get one without light bleed. With modern TV's, it's an ailment we've got to live with (unless you're spending mega money).
Having said that, a little light bleed with a £450 TV is acceptable. Not with TV's reaching circa £1,000.
Just need to wait for a decent PS4 Pro deal to rear it's head...
Oh, and the ambient lighting...Not a gimmick.
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Cheers mate! I do have to agree with everything you've said but I'm now even more undecided whether to change or not!!! Like you I want a 4k so I might give it a go, because as you've already said the price is a bargain! Thanks again
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lol
Maybe HUKD isn't for you then, unless you like alarm bells.
ps I'd ignore anything jokerevo has to say he is clearly a moron. this coming from the guy who said a 55 inch TV is suitable for a kitchen.
I'm using with my Sky+HD box as the source
Picture style ISF Day
Colour 55
Contrast 60
Sharpness 0
Brightness 50
Advanced -
Computer Off
Colour Temperature Warm
Contrast, Contrast mode Off
Dynamic Contrast Off
Video Contrast 88
Light Sensor Off
Gamma -1
Sharpness - Ultra Resolution Off
Noise Reduction Off
MPEG artefact reduction Off
Motion - Natural Motion Off
Picture Format Fit to Screen
I can't help on sound settings as I use a Yamaha Amp, I hope they help you.
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Seen that, its at the price point of £750 though so i'd say they would review it very differently at £450
perhaps your special k? X)
I have a LG B6 and it **** on anything I've seen picture quality wise OLED is the way forward and it's actually true 10 bit HDR not all these fake 8 bits HDR panels that are around plus you can't beat the pixel responsiveness of oleds and the blacks.
Good luck buying a 55" OLED for £450.
Yeah good point Bully, I had to use a different TV stand for mine as it didn't fit on my old one.
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