Philips 46PFL8007T Pro Reviews

The Philips 46PFL8007T produces picture performance which is good, on the whole. However, it’s also fairly expensive: if you can track one down, expect to pay somewhere in the range of around £1500. There are plasma TVs on the market which give better picture quality for less money – provided you’re not watching in a very bright environment, and provided the annoying (but not lethal) issue of image retention isn’t a deal-breaker for you. On the Liquid Crystal side, rival models like Sony’s KDL-46HX853 avoids some of the Philips’ picture quality imperfections for less money – and that particular example, like the Philips 8007, actually does include a speaker-integrated stand to address the typical flat-screen TV issue of puny sound. With that said, the Sony is an anomaly in that regard, and Philips’ speaker integrated stand still produces considerably better TV-generated sound than almost any other flat-panel television on the market. There’s also Ambilight, which can be configured as a bias lighting system to reduce eyestrain and make the image perceptibly richer when viewed in a dark environment – if you’re a fan of this, Philips is your only choice. What’s more, the 46PFL8007′s overall colour accuracy – in the ISF-branded modes – is good by “out of the box” standards (although the default Gamma settings need a quick adjustment to avoid the picture appearing washed out and greyish). The fact that it has no less than 5 HDMI inputs doesn’t hurt, either.