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Posted 19 October 2016
Philips 4K Ultra HD Ambilight HDR Android Smart TVs - 49" was £749.00 now £479.00 or 55" was £899.00 now £599.00 @ Argos
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Pretty good price on these if you've been toying with the idea of Ambilight. There are 3rd party systems that can be hooked up to other models, but to be honest, I've not seen a huge amount of positive things said about them. Would more than likely help with vanishing into a game and ignoring the rest of the world for a while.
For these sorts of specs with an Ambilight system, I feel this is a fair price really. Been waiting for a drop on the 49" Model for a while, it's been hanging around the £500 mark for a good few months, so good to see it drop.
Model numbers for your ref are:
Philips 49PUS6401
Philips 55PUS6401
Ambilight
Both TVs have a built in lighting system that will light up around the TV and correspond with what is on screen. You should check some videos out if you're interested. I use a light behind my PC screen and find it helps with eye strain too, although not sure if it will have that effect with ambilight system, on a TV, but it does help on a monitor for sure.
The Idea is that it makes the whole movie watching experience more immersive. So lights out, pizza on the lap and zone out.
HDR
From what i can see it's HDR+ via HDMI/USB only. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong though. Seems to be good value at this price at the moment.
Stand Footprint on both sets
One of the most important things when buying a TV with they type of stand is the footprint. With the legs being set apart, you'll want to make sure your stand will be wide enough. The Footprint on these is 83cm
Below Specifications apply to both sets
LED TV Screen.
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.
More specs on deal links
Pretty good price on these if you've been toying with the idea of Ambilight. There are 3rd party systems that can be hooked up to other models, but to be honest, I've not seen a huge amount of positive things said about them. Would more than likely help with vanishing into a game and ignoring the rest of the world for a while.
For these sorts of specs with an Ambilight system, I feel this is a fair price really. Been waiting for a drop on the 49" Model for a while, it's been hanging around the £500 mark for a good few months, so good to see it drop.
Model numbers for your ref are:
Philips 49PUS6401
Philips 55PUS6401
Ambilight
Both TVs have a built in lighting system that will light up around the TV and correspond with what is on screen. You should check some videos out if you're interested. I use a light behind my PC screen and find it helps with eye strain too, although not sure if it will have that effect with ambilight system, on a TV, but it does help on a monitor for sure.
The Idea is that it makes the whole movie watching experience more immersive. So lights out, pizza on the lap and zone out.
HDR
From what i can see it's HDR+ via HDMI/USB only. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong though. Seems to be good value at this price at the moment.
Stand Footprint on both sets
One of the most important things when buying a TV with they type of stand is the footprint. With the legs being set apart, you'll want to make sure your stand will be wide enough. The Footprint on these is 83cm
Below Specifications apply to both sets
LED TV Screen.
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.
More specs on deal links
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sorted byIs £439 for a 49 inch 4k TV with HDR capability, Ambilight and Andriod TV a very good dead? - Yes
Is it going to compare to a 10bit TV thats going to cost you at the very least 3 times the price - No
Also the people saying "its getting bad reviews on AV forums" or "its not a great 4k TV" I do wonder if thats just what you've been told and you haven't actually looked at it with your own eyes. The reviews and people you are listening to are just snobs and experts, I guarantee 99.9% of you out there wont be able to tell the difference between this and a high end 4k tv.
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I would also like to sign up to your "search for an affordable 4K HDR set" newsletter.
Apologies for the massive pictures (tried finding out how to resize them embedded for 30 minutes but had to give up in the end)
This is a very good and informative link for the very confusing HDR10/Dolbyvision/gamut/UHD/4k spec, worth a read for anyone considering a TV right now.
acousticfrontiers.com/uhd…v2/
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The Android system it runs on can be a bit hit and miss, but on the whole works fine, not laggy but not ultra smooth like a Playstation 4's interface (more like an Xbox one as a comparison - I have both). I have to turn the TV off to restart the android OS once or twice a week when certain programs like youtube or iplayer don't work. I have Kodi installed on it, and it works like a charm.
Annoying thing is all the resolutions between 1080p and 2440p support/run only at 30Hz, so are pretty much made redundant, so difficult to scale for PC gaming - I have it hooked up by HDMI. So you're either at 1080p or 4K, nothing inbetween if your GFX card can't handle it.
Philips do regular OTA/Internet updates to the software and the firmware which have made it a better set since I got it, so I'm reassured that they are continuing supporting the set.
Overall, I have a Wii U, PS4 and Xbox One hooked up and they are all excellent at 1080p. 4K HDR with Forza Horzion 3 looks just like the Life of Pi Trailer, absolutely stunning and makes you a bit annoyed to go back to anything non-HDR really. My BT YouView Box showing SD tv on it looks pretty rubbish though tbh, pixellation, motion blur and all that, but I'm not surprised to be honest, all SD content tends to look crappy on modern HD TVs for some reason.
With regard to the comment about the HDR being downscaled to SDR, that doesn't appear to be the case on my set, as both the trailer and games (well only one atm) are shown to be running at 4K (the info button), and looking like they're running at 4K as well.
Just wanted to give a positive opinion to balance out some of the more negative ones (not that there's anything wrong with them), as I'm very glad I got mine.
Next TV I buy will definitely be from JL, even if it is a hisense at least I know it will be covered!
Subtotal: £479.00
Promotional discount: £47.90
Balance due: £431.10
43" £341.10 = £7.93 per inch
49" £431.10 = £8.79 per inch
55" £539.10 = £9.80 per inch
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Philips sold out to TPV years ago now TPV make and sell the sets under the philips brand. I bought one of the last excellent philips sets bought in 2011 still have it now. digitaltrends.com/hom…ss/
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Mines 50" and LG, and I'm now suffering from little man syndrome thanks to this thread
And who says students have no money.
I guess the reason I decided to contribute to this post was because I felt posts like these were misleading for people (who were sitting on the fence) not that into tech. To my mind low, end screens are ones such as cello, alba or bush. I've had to use them at budget conscious friends' or familys' houses, and they are dreadful.
This is not a 720p screen nor does it have a poor bare bones interface as some TVs do for freeview.
Its pleasant to use, has a nice picture image and runs 4k HDR content. To compare it with £800 or £1000 TVs seems a bit off topic at least in my mind. True you're not getting a steal, but then again I would never buy a £800 TV in any case.
I grew up with Philips being a quality brand, maybe its changed now. But I personally with this TV haven't noticed that change, and it's at argos so if anything goes wrong you are covered if you need to return it.
If paired with a raspberry pi and the right software, or something like a lightberry for example, the LEDs will correspond with whatever is on the display
Go to philips website and download latest update on there dated August. Put this on USB and update your TV.
You can now turn on install from unknown sources from settings . Seems philips disabled it on purpose and it upset a lot of people so they added it back in
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In exactly the same boat with a 51" Sammy plasma. If you find anything that does the job let me know.
Guy at work has got a 3rd party one set up on his TV. It's pretty impressive. And you can put it on a better TV than a cr@ppy Philips ....
(Needs something to drive it through. PC/RPi. It's a Lightberry setup he has I think.)
i may be wrong, but it looks like the TV will process HDR input (i.e. not just show a black screen with sound) but at 350 nits maximum brightness, the image won't be dazzling. UHD alliance recommend a minimum of 1000 nits
on a separate note, I too was once a Sammy 51" plasma owner. it died after 2y (? coincidence) and samsung gave me a replacement 49KS7000 (after me quoting Sales of Goods Act)
Not a hot deal but the mod posting sways it as usual.
With what everyone has been saying about the cheapest 10 bit panels being £1000 or so, I wouldn't be surprised. But still it's a nice panel, even if 8 bit.
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This is a cheap low end screen, it's not going to be the best, will it do the job I'm sure it will
You can wait until 10bit screens are in every cheap screen, but the new tech will be out then, so you will be looking that
And really how important is 10bit hrd, you will be seeing it the very odd time, odd game consol and the odd over priced movie.
If you like it buy it
Thank you I have done this fingers crossed!
You have to use fast track and pay for it online, that's what I did to get the extra 10%
Specious/deceptive -- it's the square footage that counts.
Before you post something about you have never seen, just do some research (via google - simple option).
And here is the link
instructables.com/id/…ur/
Overall I'm very happy with the picture and casual watchers of TV who aren't picture experts won't have anything to grumble about.
Overall a very good entry level set
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Massive upgrade for me. Screen is great in comparison. I love ambilight.
Sound quality was not great. I had to use my soundbar - ARC works fine.
Not so good: I think the tv is a bit underpowered to run android tv. Navigating menus and TV guide don't feel very snappy. Netflix and amazon were a bit juddery until I reenabled motion smoothing. Netflix and amazon were both very laggy until i unplugged the TV and rebooted it. I assume it's because something was running in the background.
Overall I'm happy with it so far but a bit worried that the underspeced android tv will only feel 1000 times worse in 5+ years time.
Pointless thought as all the missing apps when you load them on TV use a phone interface so can't really navigate with w controller .
And All4 the screen goes upside down . You also need side load launcher to see the icons
Any suggestions?