Home > Consumer Reviews > Philips 26PF5321 - 26" Widescreen HD Ready LCD TV

Excellent TV - really good picture, and all the connectivity options I could wish for. My kids used it for Xbox 360 gaming, Wii gaming, DVD playback and Sky Plus - this box has had a lot of use over the last 12 months. Problem is that this last weekend it died - just inside the manufacturer's warranty - so I guess Philips just timed that one wrong ;-) No picture at all - power & sound good.

In brief - excellent quality - unmatched connectivity - dubious longer term reliability.

Anybody contemplating buying an lcd tv need look no further than this model. Excellent picture and sound, and ample connections for other devices. One slight grumble....slightly to wide owing to side speakers but nothing to put anybody off. My advice......go for it!!

Have had this model for about 1 month and am very pleased with its performance. Excellent, clear picture and outstanding contrast ratio. Very versatile (can be used in France as it will receive SECAM as well as PAL, important to us as we will be moving there soon), with PC, etc.

Had no problem with screen ratio autoswitching so the problems reported by another reviewer may be the result of a fault. Note also that some analogue transmissions do not carry an autoswitching signal, although all digital channels should be OK.

I'm really not sure why people rave about LCD TVs so much. When you see them in the shops the picture is muddy and frequently blurred. It was a pleasant surprise therefore to see this one, which appeared clear, crisp and with none of the annoying movement blurs or blurs around the edges of say peoples faces. What a disappointment therefore to get it home and find that using freeview, the blurring is there (and my signal is very good). It turns out that the shop were running it off a HDMI enabled DVD player.... Having said that, its better than most other LCDs I've seen, but CRT TVs are far superior in picture quality. Maybe when high definition tv finally comes out, it'll be different, but for the moment, the only good thing about LCD tvs is that they are lighter!

My first experience with LCD TV was a JVC which died on me 3 weeks after the manufacturer's warranty expired so I was sorely tempted to return to good old CRT. However this Philips caught my eye so I decided to give the technology another try and I am very glad I did. The picture quality is excellent, the virtual Dolby surround sound is a reasonable alternative to a home theatre kit and the remote control unit is a work of art in its own right - small, thin yet perfectly conceived.

My previous TV automatically identified the screen ratios being broadcast and switched configuration automatically. With the Philips this needs to be done manually. This is a minor irritation but significant enough for me not to be able to award 5 stars for what is otherwise an excellent television.