Philips 32PF5320 32-Inch Widescreen LCD HD-Ready TV

by Philips

Product Details

• Item Weight: 41.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 49 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B000BNUESE
• Item model number: 32PF5320
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,371 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 5, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Save space and enjoy a wonderfully vivid picture with the stylish, 32-inch Philips 32PF5320 widescreen LCD TV, a great choice for small- to medium-sized living rooms. It has a built-in 181-channel NTSC tuner for standard television broadcasts and is capable of displaying crisp high definition video with an optional HD receiver. This set can also double as a PC monitor, and with its Picture-in-Graphics small window in the main picture, you can simultaneously view your PC's desktop as you watch television programming. This set includes a tabletop stand, but it's also wall-mountable with optional kit (VESA compatible--200mm x 100mm).

The 32PF5320 has a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution, 176-degree viewing angle, very fast 18 ms (millisecond) response time (great for sports), a 500 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and an 600:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a TV's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) Other features include Philips Digital Crystal Clear video processing chip (for optimal color, contrast, and sharpness levels), an anti-reflection coated screen, auto volume leveler, adjustable color temperature and sharpness, sleep timer, and V-Chip parental controls.

The 3D comb filter separates brightness and color signals better in 3D domain to eliminate cross-color, cross-luminance and dot-crawl distortion. It performs field-by-field comparisons of the television image to accurately separate the color from the black-and-white information and remove both horizontally and vertically hanging dots, as well as dot crawl, resulting in a razor sharp image. This set also performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture.

The Active Control function uniquely and intelligently optimizes picture quality by measuring and analyzing the incoming signal to automatically adjust picture quality settings. Active Control with Light Sensor uses a sensor to adjust the picture brightness depending on the room light conditions.

This TV has two built-in stereo speakers that produce 15 watts per channel (for 30 watts of total power), and can produce Dolby Digital virtual surround sound, emulating a 5.1-channel sound field from just two speakers. It also offers the following connections:

• Composite AV (RCA) In: 2 (1 side)
• S-Video In: 2 (1 side)
• Component Video In (Y PB PR): 1
• HDMI In: 2
• RF In: 1
• PC Audio In: 1
• PC VGA In: 1
• Headphone: 1

Tech Talk
HDMI -- HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen. By eliminating conversion to an analog signal, it delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal reduces flicker and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI intelligently communicates the highest output resolution with the source device. The HDMI input is fully backward compatible with DVI sources but includes digital audio. HDMI uses HDCP copy protection.

What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), tabletop stand, power cord, printed operating instructions

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Problem with explosions!, December 20, 2005

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Petko A. Zlatev "pazdenver" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 32PF5320 32-Inch Widescreen LCD HD-Ready TV (Electronics)

First, the Amazon description is wrong - this model does not have a Cable Card slot. Bought mine at Sam's Club. Out of the box, and set up in about 15 minutes - stand screws to the TV with 4 screws, very stable, clean look. Plugged in DVD via component video - MI2 looks great, great picture. Problem is when playing movie with sudden light bursts (lasers in Star Wars IV, T2). Screen goes black and does not recover for 1-3 seconds. Called Philips, they had me try hooking it through composite video, and it works fine. So their question was "is it the DVD player output or the TV input?" Well, since the DVD player worked fine through a CRT TV with component video before this, and I am using the same cables... I suspect it is probably the TV. I tried going through the CVI 2 also, using their supplied cable through the PC/CVI 2 connector, but the same problem. Since the input works fine for the rest of the movie, I am beginning to suspect that it is not a connector issue, but a processor issue in the TV. I even tried the Star Wars movie on a cheap portable DVD player, and it played fine, so it is not the disc. Philips told me they have no service center near Denver, so they could not send anyone to check it out in house, told me to try another DVD player or return it.

Other thing I noticed is that when receiving regular OTA channels (no HDTV tuner in TV), it takes a few seconds after changing channels for the TV to adjust colors, usually to darken them. I could live with that, since I suspect that hooking up HDTV tuner through the HDMI would cure that issue.

Color is rich, sound is very good from the side speakers. Nice looking unit. I like that the connectors are underneath, so cables don't stick out from behind the TV, but come up from below and are protected. Remote is small, easy to use and well laid out.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good budget model, a couple of flaws, March 16, 2006

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MR (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips 32PF5320 32-Inch Widescreen LCD HD-Ready TV (Electronics)

I bought this model because it works on US & European voltages and both PAL and NTSC signals which is a feature not many other models have.

The picture is very sharp on HD channels, but does show up the flaws on NTSC channels over my digital cable box (let's face it - there is a huge difference in picture quality between these two broadcasting standards)! I wouldn't recommend this TV for anyone who doesn't have a HD source.

PIP only works with certain inputs but this is no big deal.

PC-VGA input isn't fantastically sharp so also wouldn't recommend this as a primary monitor. Although 1024x768 is the official supported resolution for VGA input I set my PC input to 1366x768@60Hz and it works well.Note that there is some bleed over between HD component input and VGA output - when the VGA cable is plugged in it gave a little picture and sound interference when viewing the HD component source.

Speakers aren't very powerful and sadly not detachable. I use my surround sound amp instead.

The HD component input has a 'bug' which results in the screen going blank for half a second (with an error "unsupported resolution") whenever there's a bright flash on screen in a HD resolution. I bought a HDMI cable and this resolved the problem but this might be an issue if you don't have a HD source with HDMI output.

Overall, though, this is a great TV with excellent picture quality with HD input and a good price. And the multi-voltage support is useful if you might be taking it abroad sometime.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing tv for the price, January 11, 2006

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John Deere "John" (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips 32PF5320 32-Inch Widescreen LCD HD-Ready TV (Electronics)

phillips made a great product. i bought it at sams club when they had it side by side with the sony 32in playing the incredibles and the phillips was brighter and cleaner. at first i connected my dvd player to the tv and the image seemed really crappy like it was a bootleg version of the dvd but i connected to the composite ports and it looked beautiful. i later found out that it was my dvd player because my ps2 only plugs into the rca ports and if i play the same dvd is looks almost as good. if your going to buy this i suggest buying a 1080p dvd player so you can really use the full potential of this tv.