Philips 37PF7320A 37-Inch Widescreen LCD HDtv

by Philips

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 78 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.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000AMNOVU
• Item model number: 37PF7320A/37
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #208,084 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Save space and enjoy a wonderfully vivid picture with the stylish, 37-inch Philips 37PF7320A widescreen LCD TV, a great choice for living rooms. It has a built-in 181-channel NTSC tuner for standard television broadcasts, and you can receive high-definition TV right out of the box with the optional, removable CableCARD, which picks up HD (ATSC) broadcasts from your digital cable provider (digital cable subscription required). This set includes a tabletop stand, but it's also wall-mountable with optional kit (VESA compatible).

This set uses Philips' exclusive Pixel Plus video processor to increase the number of lines and the number of pixels. The result is razor sharp pictures with incredible detail and dept, every time from any source.

The 37PF7320A has a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution, 176-degree viewing angle, very fast 8 ms (millisecond) response time (great for sports), a 550 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and an 800:1 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 an anti-reflection coated screen, picture-in-picture display (via component and HDMI connections), 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: 3 (1 side)
• S-Video In: 3 (1 side)
• Component Video In (Y PB PR): 2
• HDMI In: 2
• RF In: 1
• PC Audio In: 1
• PC Audio Out: 1
• Monitor Out: 1
• USB: 1
• Headphone: 1

The USB connector allows access to multimedia JPEG, MP3, MP3-PRO, and ALB (photo slideshow) files of most USB memory drives and most digital cameras (USB 1.1 memory-class device). Plug the USB connector into the slot at the side of the TV and access your photos or music files.

Tech Talk
CableCARD -- The CableCARD system enables the "Plug-and-Play DTV" functionality as agreed between cable operators and consumer electronics manufacturers. It allows the decoding of encrypted or scrambled content delivered from the cable system. CableCARD functionality includes conditional access and copy protection. A CableCARD-enabled television without a CableCARD inserted receives high-definition standard TV broadcasts. When a CableCARD is inserted, the television receives high-value high-definition, cable programming.

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

Product Description

With this Philips 37PF7320A 37" LCD Digital Ready Flat HDTV Pixel Plus, you'll turn up your viewing experience. Enjoy superior quality as you watch this HDTV integrated with the latest LCD technology and Pixel Plus. It's all packed into a stunning design that will complement your interior design. You can even share music and photos through the built-in USB port. Breathtaking, natural pictures and one-touch convenience are combined into an elegant, stylish design. 800 - 1 Contrast Ratio Brightness - 1000 cdm2 Response Time - 8 ms Viewing Angle - 176 degrees (horizontal and vertical) Anti-aging circuit, anti-reflection coated screen 3D Comb filter NTSC, ATSC tuner Built-in speakers with Dolby Surround HDTV ready for use with CableCARD Child Lock and Parental Controls Smart Clock Closed captioning support USB 1.1 connection for easy, instant multimedia playing Plays back JPEG images, MP3s and sideshow files (.alb) Other connections - Audio L/R, S-Video in, Component in, headphone out HDMI connection for digital audio/video Includes tabletop stand Dimensions(WxDxH) - 3.8 x 24 x 43.6 Weight - 66.15 lbs. (32 kg)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Breed, June 25, 2006

By 

Robert J. Nagy "Inventor" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 37PF7320A 37-Inch Widescreen LCD HDtv (Electronics)

I'm a just-retired Broadcast Chief Engineer, and am very hard to please when it comes to video quality. After much deliberation, and after settling on the Sharp, I had occasion to see a Philips LCD in direct comparison with 8 other brands (not Sony). No contest, the Philips had the best image. Philips-LG has a tremendous LCD technology right now with their S-IPS LCD. The colors are deeper, blacks better, view angle and sharpness better. To my eyes, the lineup from best to worst is: Sony, Philips-LG, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, RCA, Syntax, Polaroid, ILO. To Sharp's favor, they have a very nice- smooth look. The surprize- Sanyo. Sony is in a class of it's own, with a price-tag to match. Even as a former Sony fan, I can't justify it.

So, onto the Philips 37PF7320A. This TV can produce stunning imagry. I am feeding it with the OPPO 971 DVD player- HDMI connection. I have Dish Net sat service. What you immediately learn is that most all of our current sources of video are sub-standard. This is revealed in 10 minutes with the Philips. Although it does better with MPG2 sat signals that most others, compression artifacts will become very evident on all of the lesser channels in the sat line-up. Realize that HBO pays for top quality MP2 coding rate on the sat services. It looks pretty darn good. Look at Worldlink or other bottom rate coding channels- and you'd better be 20 feet away from the set.

DVD's fed with HDMI or Component look GREAT. As long as you feed it 480P, It looks like the film it probably came from. The "Pixel Plus" feature on the Philips does what it says. I was able to see very small sweat beads on faces in close-up shots. You will need to adjust most of the video settings to get it "dialed-in". The menuing system is just average. I'll be sending several suggestions to the firmware guys at Philips for small tweaks. I've already updated the firmware on the TV via the USB flashdrive. Excellent feature.

If you want to see what the TV can do, play some 1360x800 pixel images off a Flashdrive. It's jaw-dropping. As soon as mainstream sat service is 720P, you'll probably have a 100% increase in couch-potato mode time with the Philips. It's light, has modern design, good internal audio, decent remote, fine PDF CD manual,

Plenty-o-inputs, triple TV tuners and Superb picture. To boot, Circuit City has it for $1499 delivered (with a free 15" chineese LCD TV thrown in). Right now, it's the 37" to buy.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay now...but a bad first impression..., June 20, 2006

By 

R. Gordon "Tech Enthusiast" (Decatur, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips 37PF7320A 37-Inch Widescreen LCD HDtv (Electronics)

Okay, so I buy this TV, right? I hook everything up, position it perfectly in the room, then I fire it up. I do the channel auto scan [a joke] and as I begin poking through the other settings I realize that I don't hear anything...ANYTHING! No sound at all. I call Philips, and their technical support was a joke. After transferring me a few times to the "area that can help me" I was referred to a authorized service center in my area. Huh? This TV is new?

Don't get me started on the 'proof' of warranty debacle.

Anyway...since I am somewhat savvy, I went to the Philips site and downloaded the latest firmware. I put it on a compact flash card/USB card reader combo, and plugged it into the side of the TV and powered the TV back on. The firmware loaded automatically, and I had sound after powering the TV off then on again. Whew!

You always learn about a company when you have to contact them for a problem. I love Philips' designs--very clean and elegant--but they lost a point here.

The screen is great but some cable and most OnDemand (Comcast) programming look awfully pixelated. I know that's not the TV's fault. Multiple picture settings (personal, multimedia, movies, etc.) are available to fine tune poorer quality signals. HDTV on air programming is flawless...just flawless.

Sound is impressive, with decent bass response. Multiple sound settings too (voice, movies, etc.)

A plethora of inputs...which I need. Two HDMI, but no DVI? Go figure.

Minus one star for the poor customer support.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great TV, April 21, 2006

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Ed - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips 37PF7320A 37-Inch Widescreen LCD HDtv (Electronics)

Been watching the market for 6 months, following prices closely. When I saw this one in Costo for $1800, I bought it on the spot.

So far we are very happy with the purchase. Have not watched HD yet, but DVD progressive scan picture looks awesome, and SD looks much better than on our old SD TV. Have experienced no glitches or problems with menus, etc. TV has plenty of input connections, including two HDMI connections. The side input connections for USB and AV are very handy too.

I did find that monkeying with the brightness, contrast, and color settings made the picture much better. The factory settings were much too bright. Also, it's worth trying each of the screen formats when you start a new movie or show, to see which looks the best. With 7 settings for screen size, one of them is bound to match the input best.

Oh, for those of you complaining about no volume bar ... read the friggin' manual. You can set the menu preferences so the volume bar appears.