Philips 17PF8946A 17" HDTV-Ready LCD Flat-Panel TV


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Here is an LCD TV that not only enhances the decor of your home with its European styling and slim design, but also provides a great audio visual experience with features like Crystal Clear III, Active Control, Virtual Dolby Surround and unique flat speakers.
Philips' widescreen, 15:9 aspect-ratio 17PF8946A TFT LCD television is stylish enough and small enough to be used in any room of the house. The 17-inch TV offers high brightness (450 cd/m2) and high contrast (400:1), and an integrated TV tuner for cable or broadcast reception of all your favorite programs. This is an EDTV display, which means it's a step closer to high-definition or HDTV than standard TVs. When used with a progressive-scan DVD player (or 480p-output DTV set-top box) you'll get seamless, razor-sharp images from your favorite movies and concert videos.

LCD technology allows screens to be thinner and televisions to be lighter and more energy-efficient than ever before. The result is television that not only fits on a wall, but fits in places conventional televisions cannot. The 17PF8946A's comes outfitted with Digital Crystal Clear III technology, a suite of picture innovations including Dynamic Contrast, green/blue stretch, and a 3-line digital comb filter. The comb filter removes blurred edges between colors and reduces dot crawl (tiny, moving dots of color along a sharp color separation in a vertical line, as in a depiction of a character's striped T-shirt).

A feature called Active Control continually adjusts picture settings at over 60 times per second for all inputs, correcting both sharpness and noise reduction. Auto Picture lets you change--at the touch of a button--the picture settings (color, tint, contrast, etc.) for various types of programming, including sports, movies, multimedia (games), or weak signals.

Auto Sound allows you to select from 3 factory-set controls and a personal control that you set according to your preferences. Use the factory-set controls (voice, music, and theatre) to enhance appropriate programs. Virtual Dolby surround simulates enveloping surround sound from any 2 speakers.

Inputs include 1 component-video, 2 S-video, and 3 composite-video connections, as well as a VGA computer input, which accepts signals up to WXGA (1,280 x 768, from 60 to 75 Hz). Side-panel AV inputs accommodate a camcorder, gaming device, or VCR hookup, and a headphone output (minijack .125-inch) lets you listen in private.

What's in the Box
TV, stand, remote control, remote batteries, and a user's manual.


1 Above average Price and Performace
The first thing you might notice is it's unusual 1280x768 resolution, which seems to be an interesting compromise between 1024x768 and 1280x1024.

This is an EDTV, which means it plays at 480p.
This is great for those Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube games that
support progressive scan. Lastly DVD output is incredile. I tried playing "Hero", a chinese martial arts film noted for it's outstanding use of rich colors. Color separation and saturation were spot on. Brightness was above average, but I've seen better from other monitors.

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Above average monitor. Above average performance. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Thursday, 04-Dec-2008 19:27:57 CST
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