Very good Philips CRT TV (Philips 28PW6451)

Member Name: baker85

Product:	Philips 28PW6451
Date:	07/10/08 (496 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: All options it has work very good

Disadvantages: its weigh and limited features,

As long as we have this television it is alright. It is not possible unfortunately to mount in on the wall  
Will have to replace it probably when moving to new house as we do not consider having such a monster on a table in living room.

It does everything what should. We watch DVD movies, movies from PC by directly connected cable into it and quality is fine. Sound of watching movies and programs is alright; nevertheless we bought Home Theater Cinema system to improve DVD watching experience with 5.1 channels.
TV itself

Philips 28PW6451 is a 28" flat screen widescreen monitor. It does support image aspect ratio of 16:9, 14:9 and 4:3. Philips has also some extra features like "super wide" and "subtitle zoom" mode which helps when watching movie with subtitles and do not want them to cover movie. Image seems to be slightly lifted up.

The dimension of this TV is 76.4 cm x 48.7 cm x 50.3 cm. I have it in silver frost color which is fine. Whole TV if not thinking about its size and alright and even quite stylish. Has nice rounded corners and top. 2 Built in speakers are nicely hidden behind front panel and have output power of 10 Watts each. The sound output mode is stereo which is nothing special. If need to boost your speakers you can turn them to Incredible Surround mode. It improves quality but it is not as good as expected.
Philips 28PW6451 has following features: Crystal Clear, anti-reflection coating, Smart Picture Control, Smart Sound Control. All of them are there to increase quality of images displayed and sound. It has a sleep timer.

Remote control is simple and unbreakable. Number of times spilled liquids on it, dropped on a floor and so on. I t is still working and is fine. 2 AA batteries last for about 3 months.
Connections

It has at the rear one RF port and two 21-pin SCARTS. At the front one headphones jack, audio in left and right and s-video

Conclusion
It is pretty good, old and big TV with number of helpful options and modes. Everything it has works brilliantly. It is not as bright as LCD or Plasma screens but images displayed looks good. It is very easy in use and installation.

I like its simplicity and fact that we have it. Takes quite a lot of room but as long as you have space and do not have to move it from place to place is alright.
Dislike that do not have option to connect blue ray player or more sophisticated stuff.
This philips TV is alright but I can not recomend it unless someone wouldn't mind to lift it or has no plans to connect newest gadgets into it.

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Summary: It is good TV but takes quite a lot of room.