Philips TVs

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By introducing the Ambilight Aurora function, Philips is enhancing the colour illumination on the back of the TV with a so-called Ambience mode. You can use theme packages that are already installed on the TV, to provide images in combination with suitable background music, to relax in a rainforest atmosphere, for example, or to continue with your current novel.

If you need some colourful background music for your current playlist, Ambilight Music gives you exactly that. As soon as you activate the feature, its LEDs jump on to match the beat of the song you’re listening to. In combination with additional Hue lights, you can even intensify the effect and let the room be completely captured by a colourful background.

The term Ambilight Next Generation refers to an advanced version of the ambient illumination. Here, the control no longer takes place in groups as before, but instead for each LED. This allows the colour effect on the back to be resolved more precisely. The outcome is an even finer transition along the displayed image content.

Philips TVs that have the AmbiWakeup feature provide a special alarm mode to wake you up as gently as possible. To do this, you need to programme the TV beforehand based on various settings for wake-up time, colour theme, music preference and volume. Using a sunrise effect – similar to a daylight alarm clock – the screen becomes steadily brighter and thus ensures an altogether more relaxed awakening.

AmbiSleep works in exactly the opposite way to AmbiWakeup. Here, Philips aims to help you fall asleep. The TV uses warm colours combined with natural sounds to help you relax. On this basis, you should be able to sleep more easily. As with the wake-up feature, you can set your preferred settings in the menu.

Philips has been working with the British audio company Bowers & Wilkins since 2018. Today, you can find several TV models with sound systems made by the sound experts from the island. Those products range from small audio bars that are directly integrated into the design up to external sound bars that can also serve as a stand.

The DTSMulti-channel-sound-system (Surround Sound) competing with Dolby Digital Play-Fi functionality provides you with two different options. In combination with compatible speakers, you can create a multiroom setup and move the playback of the TV to another location in your home. Alternatively, Philips offers you the option to implement a home theater setup that uses surround sound and utilise the TV as a center speaker within this configuration.

This is Philips’ so-called Black Frame Insertion feature, which allows black images to be inserted into the screen. During playback, the screen switches on and off at high speed. What may seem strange at first is a functionality to reduce blurring during fast motion sequences.

The Local Contrast setting is used to improve the degree of contrasts. An algorithm is used to analyse the displayed material. While details in darker areas are brightened without negatively affecting the black level, a filter ensures that edges remain sharp.

This marketing name refers to the type of background illumination used and therefore has no role to play with OLEDs. In general, Philips differs between two variants here. If you read “Premium“, the TV has so-called local dimming. If the term “Pro” is attached to it, the simpler and lower-quality edge-lit variant operates in the housing.

A valuable feature for people with hearing impairments is Philips’ audio optimisation system, called Mimi Sound. It allows users to create a personalised tone profile based on an app to compensate for limitations in listening perception. This provides a better subjective quality by highlighting low noises, for example, or by making individual details more audible within a louder soundscape.

For TVs labelled or advertised as “OLED+”, the Dutch-Chinese manufacturer uses a so-called OLED.EX panel. Technically, this is the first development stage of standard WOLED screens with self-luminous pixels and thus the second generation of this panel type.

A horrible marketing term, but actually a collective term for various features of a Philips TVs that are related to signal processing. In detail, this includes, for example, the automatic recognition of the displayed content in combination with HDR formats and tone mapping, other picture optimisation processes or maintenance options to avoid burn-in on the panel.

Philips uses this term to describe the so-called interpolation feature, also known as interframe calculation. An optimisation process that ensures a smoother representation of the displayed content and thus helps to capture scenes with fast movements more clearly. To implement the method, the processor uses real footage to calculate synthetic frames that are continuously inserted throughout the existing content at matching points.

With the help of Philips’ own Hue brand, the Ambilight functionality of your TV can be extended beyond the illumination on the back of the device. For this purpose, various solutions are offered by the company in the form of floor lamps, table lamps and wall lamps. Light strips can also be integrated into your configuration. Additionally, you can set the components according to your requirements via an associated app and thus save different colour moods and access them when needed.