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Brings movies to life

Be captivated by the immersive power of Ambilight in an ultra thin and slim design. Featuring the stunning Perfect Pixel HD engine and powerful sound, movies really come to life in your living room.

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Brings movies to life

With Ambilight and breathtaking sharp pictures

  • 107cm (42")
  • Full HD 1080p
  • digital TV

Ambilight Spectra 2 enhances the viewing experience

Add a new dimension to your viewing experience with Ambilight Spectra 2. This patented Philips technology enlarges the screen further by projecting a glow of light from the back of the screen onto the surrounding wall. Ambilight adjusts automatically the colour and brightness of the light surrounding the TV to match with the picture, creating an immersive viewing experience. With Ambilight Spectra 2 movies truly come to life!

Perfect Pixel HD Engine for unrivalled sharpness and clarity

Experience unrivalled sharpness and clarity with Perfect Pixel HD Engine. Each pixel of the picture is enhanced to better match the surrounding pixels, resulting in a more natural picture. The result is a unique combination of sharpness, natural detail, vivid colors superior contrast and smooth natural motion whatever you are watching. Clean and razor sharp images result from artifact and noise detection and reduction in all content sources - from multimedia to standard TV.

Full HD LCD display, with a 1920x1080p resolution

The Full HD screen has the widescreen resolution of 1920 x 1080p. This is the highest resolution of HD sources for the best possible picture quality. It is fully future proof as it supports 1080p signals from all sources, including the most recent like Blu-ray and advanced HD game consoles. The signal processing is extensively upgraded to support this much higher signal quality and resolution. It produces brilliant flicker-free progressive scan pictures with superb brightness and colors.

Philips Net TV with Wi-Fi for online services on your TV

Perfect Natural Motion for ultra smooth Full HD movies

200 Hz Clear LCD*, 1 ms performance: superb motion sharpness

Ultra slim and thin TV for perfect fit in your living room

Enjoy a rich selection of web videos from YouTube and others

MPEG4 HDTV reception via DVB-T and DVB-C tuner with CI+*

Technical Specifications
  • Ambilight

    Ambilight Features
    • Ambilight Spectra 2

    • Lounge light mode

    Ambilight light system

    LED wide color

    Dimming Function

    Manual and via Light Sensor

  • Picture/Display

    Aspect ratio

    Widescreen

    Diagonal screen size (inch)

    42  inch

    Diagonal screen size (metric)

    107  cm

    Color cabinet

    Brushed aluminium decofront

    Panel resolution

    1920x1080p

    Brightness

    500  cd/m²

    Picture enhancement
    • Perfect Pixel HD Engine

    • Perfect Natural Motion

    • Perfect Contrast

    • Perfect Colors

    • 3/2 - 2/2 motion pull down

    • 3D Combfilter

    • Active Control + Light sensor

    • Jagged Line Suppression

    • Progressive scan

    • 1080p 24/25/30Hz processing

    • 1080p 50/60Hz processing

    • 200Hz Clear LCD*

    • Scanning backlight

    Display screen type

    LCD Full HD W-UXGA Act. matrix

    Dynamic screen contrast

    80.000:1

    Response time (typical)

    1(BEW equiv.)  ms

    Viewing angle

    176º (H) / 176º (V)

    Screen enhancement

    Anti-Reflection coated screen

    Color processing

    2250 trillion colors 17bit RGB

  • 200Hz Clear LCD displays 200 scenes per second by combining advanced 100Hz technology with scanning backlight @ 50% dutycycle.
  • 8 days EPG, service not available in all countries
  • DVB-T, supported in selected countries only
  • DVB-C in selected countries and for selected operators only. Most up to date information is available on the type plate of the TV.
  • Net TV, service offering is dependent on country and subject to terms of use.
  • Optional Philips DVB-S module required (part no. PFS0001, only available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland)