HD Ready For The Highest Quality Display Of HDTV Signals - Enjoy the exceptional picture quality of a true High Definition TV signal and be fully prepared for HD sources like HDTV broadcast, Blu-ray DVD or HDVD. HD ready is a protected label that offers picture quality beyond that of progressive scan. It conforms to strict standards laid out by EICTA to offer an HD screen that displays the benefits of resolution and picture quality of a High Definition TV signal. It has a universal connection for both analogue YPbPr and uncompressed Digital connection of DVI or HDMI, supporting HDCP. It can display 720p and 1080i signals at 50 and 60Hz. 26PF5521D at PC World
Digital Crystal Clear is a package of picture innovations that digitally adjusts and optimises picture quality to optimal contrast, colour and sharpness levels. It's like watching vivid cinema-like images.
You want the LCD flat display with the highest contrast and most vibrant images even at wide viewing angle. The Philips dynamic contrast enhancer uses video processing and unique dimming backlight technology. This delivers deep, rich black levels with increased detail. The dimming backlight increases the contrast up to five times*, and at the same time improves the viewing angle. It gives a bright, lifelike picture with high contrast and vibrant colours, (* factor between two and five, screen type and picture content dependent).
Virtual Dolby Surround for a cinema-like audio experience. Virtual Dolby Surround is a processing technology for enhancing surround sound effects. It will create the sensation of Dolby Pro Logic without the necessity of additional rear speakers. You become totally immersed in your television experience.
This design style emphasises a slim, compact look that saves space and fits in anywhere
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HDMI for full digital High Definition connection. HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen. By eliminating any conversion to an analogue signal, it delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal delivers reduced flicker and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI will intelligently communicate 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.
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The Philips 26PF5521D /10 26-inch HDTV-ready LCD TV with in-built Digital TV tuner has more than just great looks. The perfect display provides an excellent audio/visual experience with features like Crystal Clear, Active Control, Virtual Dolby Surround, and unique flat speakers.
The 26PF5521D high-definition (HD tuner not included) ready, 1,366 x 768 WXGA LCD panel uses the latest panel technology, such as Philips' proprietary Crystal Clear package of innovations featuring a 3D digital comb filter (eliminates dot crawl and colour bleeding, enhancing fine detail, cleaning up image outlines, and removing most extraneous colours), Dynamic Contrast for deep blacks and pure whites, and green and blue colour enhancement. The high 600:1 contrast ratio gives you better subtle colour details and the ability to see the picture in bright light conditions, and the 8-millisecond response time means it's capable of handling fast-moving action without image blur or lag.
26PF5521D Active Control delivers the best picture setting, any time, from any source. The incoming signal is automatically analyzed and key picture settings, like sharpness, colour, and contrast, are adjusted. The 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio is the best for viewing HDTV and DVDs so you can have a more realistic cinema experience, but the TV has zoom modes for viewing 4:3 analogue broadcast TV and pan-and-scan-formatted video.
Built-in flat speakers (5 watts per channel) sit on either side of the 26PF5521D LCD WXGA Active Matrix TFT screen, giving you full stereo sound without needing to connect to an external speaker system. Virtual Dolby Surround sound support simulates cinema surround sound effects without the need for rear speakers. Philips' Smart Listening auto volume leveling eliminates drastic volume spikes while changing channels or when channels go to a commercial break.
Other 26PF5521D features include 176-degree horizontal and 176-degree vertical viewing angles, 100 preset channels, Autostore for easy tuning, Auto Picture (five modes give you picture settings for different types of programming), Auto Sound (four modes to tailor the TV sound to enhance what you're watching), multi-language onscreen display, sleep timer, integrated DIGITAL tuner, and RF jack for analogue terrestrial reception, ergonomic remote control, and an anti-reflective screen.
Want to do more than just watch TV? The 26PF5521D /10 has 2 rear SCART sockets, and a component input that helps minimize digital and line-scan artifacts during DVD playback. And, because the TV is progressive scan, it can take advantage of the more film-like images produced by progressive-scan DVD players. A set of side jacks has a composite A/V input with S-video, a mini headphone jack, and an audio in for using the TV's speakers with your PC.
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