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Posted 19 April 2019
55-Inch Philips 55PUS6753/12 4K Ultra HD Smart TV with HDR Plus and Ambilight 3-sided +2 Year Warranty (50 inch £359.10 OP)-£404.10 @ Amazon
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This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
- Ultra HD has 4X the resolution of standard Full HD; this gives sharper, crisper, more detailed images and with HDR Plus enjoy improved colour and contrast
- Ambilight three sided for a truly immersive viewing experience
- The Philips Pixel Precise Ultra HD engine optimises picture quality to deliver smooth, fluid images with incredible detail and depth
- Smart TV with Freeview Play. Find programmes from BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5 and UKTV Play sitting alongside 70 TV channels and 15 HD channels
- All Philips TVs come with a two year warranty
- Includes two year UK warranty
Philips 50PUS6753/12 50-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart TV with HDR Plus, Freeview Play and Ambilight 3-sided - Dark Silver £359.10
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One for the gamers
I've ordered one for the loft. Will probably only watch it when I'm getting the Xmas decorations down.
You can set up Ambilight as simple bias lighting if you want. There are quite a lot of options for what you want it to do, one of which is just having it display a static colour (the brightness can also be adjusted). It's the best solution there is for providing some bias lighting to make blacks look deeper in a dark room. It's not going to perform miracles on a budget LCD, but I was generally pretty impressed when I had the 2017 model of this TV (which was essentially identical).
Honestly, the picture is going to be better displaying SDR. The TV has no local dimming whatsoever and no wide colour gamut, which means you're essentially losing any and all benefit of HDR, since the TV just isn't capable of producing specular highlights or 'deep' colour. These sort of TVs try to fake some sort of HDR effect by cranking up the brightness and colour saturation, but they just don't have the hardware inside to do it any kind of justice. If you're shopping in this price range, I'd just consider what you're getting as a TV that will display an excellent SDR image and forget that it's even capable of parsing an HDR signal. If you want any sort of real HDR effect, stepping up to a TV with even basic column-based local dimming and a wide colour gamut is a requirement. (edited)
My two kids can help you with that!
Probably 8k. But good luck getting an 8k tv for £400
nice flex... i ordered one for my toilet room...
To be honest, this is nonsense. I totally accept that this is clearly your personal view but then you make it into a broad statement that people looking for a new TV will actually read and potentially act upon. I feel it belittles those who can’t afford what you regard as appropriate. At least if you entered the discussion with some meaningful alternatives or reasoning then it would have some actual value. What is ‘proper movie viewing’. You are saying that in order to watch a movie ‘properly’ you need to buy something a lot more expensive? Like what? And that is before you even start on the other things you need to watch a movie ‘properly’ such as a THX certified Atmos setup (because I am sure you have one of these), BluRay HD (because streaming 4K sucks doesn’t it) a comfy chair and popcorn at just the right temperature etc...
The truth is this is a TV that is a good deal and has been reasonably well reviewed. It represents good value for money and at its current discount, is a hot deal (or not if you think the TV is trash).
Happy Easter.
I bought the android version in hopes of sending the other back but it was dire. Terrible to use with no catch up download options at all. "Sideloading" the catchup apps ended up with portrait 4od app and the sideloaded app to rotate it only worked ocassionally. Ended up sending back the android one and now just put up with the original.
Thank you This is a cracking price for a 55 inch TV with ambilight (edited)
You got it for a good price £480 (8) months ago. Thank you for the feedback
Also why can’t you wall mount ?
The TV is 16:9. 4:3 ratio hasn't been used on TV's for years.
Because 10% of £449 is not an insignificant saving! It's a bloody good deal! I wish I'd got mine for this price from Richer Sounds (edited)
thanks
Thanks, will do some secret measurements while wife is out in the sun (edited)
Richer sounds wouldn’t match because of the warranty, you were right, but knocked it down a bit to £425, so we decided to go for that as my husband wanted the 6 years, gets delivered Wednesday x
1 zillion % worth it
Really good use of a TV. Makes my idea of putting on in the hall way for watching while i put my shoes on seem a bit frivolous.
How does this compare with the LG SK8500? Got that reserved for collection tomorrow but unsure if this would be just as good for £300 less
Put mine on the wall but set it up first with feet , looks fine but you won’t get the best effect in a corner , best against a wall flat
I've always been curious about this too. Is the ambilight basically useless if the TV isn't wall mounted or not in a corner?
Thanks
Thank you