No one can argue that Philips produce some absolutely stunning LCD TV’s (sure, there have been a few gripes over functionality in the past, but nobody is perfect). We’ve been digging around and we’ve found al gorgeous new batch of LCD’s heading your way courtesy of this Ducth TV maker. Foremost amongst the new additions, in our eyes, in the new Philips 9000 series. There isn’t a huge amount of detail just yet but looking at the stats we’re going to see some massive improvements. Personally, I’ve had a Philips 37PFL7603D for some time now and I can honestly say that I have no complaints. The new range of TV’s look set to take performance to the max.
The new range has been divided into two groupings: the 9600 (9604) and the Philips 9700 (9704) series. There’s not much info about the 9700 series kicking around just yet but you can expect it to be one of their top of the range model (featuring advanced LED backlighting, according to rumours).
The general expectation is that the 9704 series (9700) will come in three sizes: 40-inch - Philips 40PFL9704, 46-inch - 46PFL9704, and the monster 52-inch - 52PFL9704. As you might have guessed, these aren’t the sort of TV’s that you’ll simply drop into you guest room (unless you live in a palace) - it definitely looks like Philips are intending them to be flagship models (more on that in a minute). One notable point that is filtering down is the price - we knew you’d ask about that - which, allegedly, looks set to be cheaper 9800 models. A sign of economic times, maybe?
So what are we going to get for our money? We did some digging and found a nice little pdf (linked at the end of this article) which details, amongst other things, the following specs:
- LED Lux backlight engine
- Dynamic backlight value of 5,000,000:1 (according to Philips)
- 1080p Full HD
- 200Hz Clear LCD technology
- 1ms response time
- Ambilight Spectra 3
- Perfect Natural Motion technology
- Perfect Pixel HD engine (providing superior image enhancement)
- Five HDMI 1.3 inputs
When I read those specs, I just drool!
A final point to note: the Philips 9704 series comes with built-in Wi-Fi. No more cables running all over the place when you want to stream media from your PC.
Here’s the pdf from the Philips press event.
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