Philips 52PFL5704D/F7 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 51.3 x 34.1 inches ; 96 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 101 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: B001RPMTTW
• Item model number: 52PFL5704D/F7
• Batteries: 2 AAA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,192 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

The Philips 52PFL5704D 52 inch 1080p LCD HDTV combines a full HD display, Pixel Plus 3 HD engine and incredible surround sound from invisible speakers. The HD Natural Motion feature estimates motion in the picture and corrects the juddering movements in both broadcast and recorded movie material such as DVD and Blu-ray disc. This TV is easy to connect and enjoy with four HDMI inputs with Easylink for a full HD connection. This flat TV ensures brilliant design and powerful performance for years to come.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent image for it's price, February 15, 2010

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Gabriel Baptiste "gabeb2000" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 52PFL5704D/F7 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV (Electronics)

After owning this set for over a month, and spending a lot of time researching the best bang for the buck in the 50 inch and larger category, here are my impressions:

The only real compromise you will make in purchasing this TV versus the more expensive models is the contrast ratio, it just doesn't get as truly black as other far more expensive models. There are a few occasions when you will notice this: on letterboxed super wide screen Bluray content, and on some graphics on broadcasts and playing some parts of video games. But that's it...the dynamic contrast of this 52" Philips/Funai is certainly adequate for 98.3% of all other content.

Also note that the picture right out of the box is in no way representative of what this set can achieve. Out of the box settings are way too bright, the color is hyped, and the resolution was set to a mode that created scaling artifacts on a 1080i input. As soon as these were adjusted to more realistic levels, and the picture set to "unscaled", the screen quality came to life.

There are many controls for how the image is displayed, play with them to get close to what pleases your eye, and then write them down when you are happy. From there you can tweak up and down to achieve close to perfection.

I like my picture somewhat on the dark side (akin to the movie theatre experience) which also lowers power consumption. Here are some settings you can use as a starting point (Firmware version 13). Try these before calling in the expensive home theatre guy to calibrate your set:

Contrast 38
Brightness 67
Color 33
Tint 0
Sharpness 3
Temperature - Warm
Dynamic Contrast - On
Digital Natural Motion - On
Noise reduction - Off
MPEG noise reduction - On
Color enhancement - On
Picture Format - Unscaled
Vertical and Horizontal - Adjust to fit your source material so that the image fits perfectly into the screen.

Something no one has mentioned here is the ability to display your digital photos from a USB flash drive...the quality is phenomenal, the ultimate slide show!! You can also play music files from a flash drive.

Also, please note that this set has upgradable firmware. There is information on the Philips site for the latest version (correcting many of the issues that have been brought up in previous reviews) and the instructions for upgrading the firmware are in the manual. The set I purchased was already up to date as it was unboxed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing HDTV for the price., January 8, 2010

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Mir T. Ali (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 52PFL5704D/F7 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV (Electronics)

I was able to find this HDTV, under a 1000 buck, and for the price this is truly a bang for your buck. It have 4 HDMI slots which is quite adequate, plus it got the standard audio and video slots. The Picture quality is quite amazing. The 120 Hz of video processing gives a very sharp and clear picture, and personally, its hard to discern the difference between the 240Hz HDTVs and this one, so its a smart buy. It was quite easy to install, and make sure you got an adequate stand for this, cause the Tv is huge. The speakers are pretty good, but don't expect surround sound from it.
The Remote control is alright, not really a great fan of it, but it gets the job done. Otherwise this TV is a great purchase.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent HDTV, December 30, 2009

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Tony Crosby (Alma, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 52PFL5704D/F7 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV (Electronics)

We received this television for Christmas. We haven't even purchased an upconverting DVD player yet and we are blown away by the picture quality from a component connection. Playing Wii games and now with our newly installed HD satellite, we couldn't be more pleased with this television. Contrast and response time seem great.