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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