OLED 9 seriesRazor Slim 4K UHD OLED Android TV

Coming from a 60 inch plasma TV to OLED 4K is like night and day, I own a Philips 42inch 9000 series LED Ambilight TV which we have in the bedroom and always been impressed. I must say this TV is stunning with a great picture with true vibrant colors and is a great build quality, before purchasing I did speak to Philips customer care as wanted assurance that the firmware upgrade is forthcoming in the UK and was assured a roll out date of Autumn 2018. Overall very pleased and a great TV for the money,

Coming from a 60 inch plasma TV to OLED 4K is like night and day, I own a Philips 42inch 9000 series LED Ambilight TV which we have in the bedroom and always been impressed. I must say this TV is stunning with a great picture with true vibrant colors and is a great build quality, before purchasing I did speak to Philips customer care as wanted assurance that the firmware upgrade is forthcoming in the UK and was assured a roll out date of Autumn 2018. Overall very pleased and a great TV for the money,

I've always had Philips' TVs and I was keen to acquire this model when I saw it had become available. I am delighted with it and would recommend it strongly.

This is a fantastic TV. Awesome picture, easy to use and set up. The realism of the picture is breathtaking. Superb!

As there didn’t seem to be any major improvements in pure picture quality, yes I have looked and, ignoring 3D that didn’t impress me, I’ve only needed to upgrade a few times since the introduction of LCD. So I’ve had the following Philips TVs: 2006 - 32PF9830/10 2008 - 42PFL9803H/10 2010 - 40PFL9704H/12, the best pictures so far, and the longest I’ve ever kept a TV for main room viewing. As the first two digits indicate the screen size you can see I actually downsized from 42 inches to 40 - which to me provided improved definition, colour and HD artefact reduction. Being content with the best home TV pictures I’ve seen for years I kept an eye out for the emerging 4K and OLED. It’s all about the pictures for me, so I need to get over just how blown away I am with the pictures of the 55POS9002 - simply stunning - and that’s on good HD quality from the best of the BBC programming. When it comes to the limited 4K HDR content on Netflix, it’s a quantum leap across films and even TV. Even the lower picture quality programme content that I watch is good enough with the gorgeous 55 inch OLED screen and the behind the scenes Philips P5 multifunction processor. Only the very worst of standard definition programme content is no so good, however, I definitely perceive it better than my previous 40 inch LCD at the same viewing distance. Good quality HD content is glorious, and the 4K HDR content that I can obtain from Netflix and BBC beta iPlayer built into the TV Apps are truly stunning. The keys items are... the clear detailed resolution and stable pixel level definition, little to no juddering, beautiful and natural colours - mostly being able to forget about the distractions of artifacts and compromised bit rates for HD, and even 4K media, and just be emersed in the films and programmes being watched for the pure sheer enjoyment of them. After toning down the still well over bright and vivid built in ‘at home’ settings, which was mostly a bit of lower contrast and colour settings, I’ve been amazed at the colours and often ‘3D like’ images this TV can produced. When it comes to the best of even HD programming the pictures just seem to come to life, with much stronger perceived resolution and colours that are the best I’ve seen anywhere. The TV location is in a typical living room with windows behind the TV and no significant sunlight as the widows face east. Most TV and certainly quality programmes are watched late afternoon into the evening, or on dark winter days, also with light cream curtains behind the TV providing a near whole wall for the Ambilight to glow against - folk either don’t get Philips Ambilight or love it... I love it so there’s more on this below. Visual Design of the TV... It’s simply stunning, from the front a jet black screen with just a couple of millimetres of a grey steel frame. When turned on there’s around a centimetre of black border, which actually adds to the look by providing a thin but defined jet black frame for the glorious pictures. Personally, I’d preferred the whole inner section of the TV to be 47.5mm deep as, while it’s initially very impressive to see the top quarter of the TV <5 millimetres thick, it actually looks a bit flimsy which, hopefully, it isn’t. Unless placed in the middle of a room no one sees this ‘razor thin’ part of the screen anyway, so not sure it was a wise design choice. Ambilight... This is my fourth TV with Ambilight and it’s certainly the best with the array of side and top LEDs being more like mini projectors - they can be very bright, extremely colourful that extends the colours at the edges of the TV picture across the back wall. It’s like having a massive visual stage, to match my large AV kit sound stage, without compromising actual picture definition. In my view Philips do not get the credit they deserve for this massive evolution of the known for decades use of ambient lighting - i.e. a low level light source behind the screen of CRTs and then LCDs. This relaxes the viewers eyes for serious or casual watching and still allows for dark scenes to be enjoyed. With Philips Ambilight, once the massive depth of TVs dropped from CRTs, matching the colours at the edge of the screen to shine on the wall surface behind provides both the eye relaxing ambient lighting and extends the perceived screen size - which for the 55POS9002 means the whole wall! Plus, with the latest version of Ambilight, you can also use it with the TV off to provide colourful wall colour or match the music being played. Any issues... 1: Audio Capabilities... With the TV able to use high-end audio from its built in Apps like Netflix, which by the way can look amazing, it’s a shame there’s not an HDMI audio output just for high-end audio that the TV can access from inbuilt Apps like Netflix. Yes it has ARC on all its HDMI inputs, but it only has an Optical audio out that limits the surround sound to simple Dolby 5.1. As my, too expensive for me to replace, AV Amp does not have ARC without a dedicated HDMI audio out I’m limited to simple Dolby 5.1 fed to my AV Amp. It would appear some 4K media boxes including the new Apple TV have no audio out, while others just have a simple Optical. Most high end 4K Blu-ray players do seem to have a second HDMI out just for audio, so that’s perfect for old AV Amps that can’t switch 4K Video or use ARC or audio. The current available HDMI audio extractor or splitter boxes don’t seem to be able to extract high-end audio like Dolby True HD and provide this as a source for AV Amps that don’t have ARC. With yet more devices needed it would also have been ideal to have 6 HDMI inputs, one more than my over 7 year old Philips TV had, rather the one less of 4. 2: TV Sound Quality, it’s not good... As this TV is so thin (<5mm for the top quarter of the TV height and < 5cm for the electronics ‘bump’ below) there’s not much room for the three speakers. The left and right speakers are hidden in the bottom of the cabinet with sound appearing to come from two grills around 18cm long and 3cm wide. There is also a visible complex bass unit in the middle of the back of the TV. As I’ve mounted the TV on a VESA tabletop stand, so that there’s room for a fairly large centre AV speaker directly under the TV, part of the cross-mount arm of the stand goes across the TVs rear speaker from 2 to 4cm from it. This is obviously not ideal, however, there was a sound setting to indicate stand or wall mounted, so Philips must have been aware of this arrangement. I’ve tried both settings and stand mounted sounds the best, however, the sound is still rather poor when compared with all previous Philips TV’s I’ve had. After googling I found that folk suggested running the built in ‘demo’ for pictures and sound a few times. Not sure if it was this that helped or just using in the first week, as it does seem to be ‘a bit’ better. The TV sound is not a major issue, as I use a separate AV Amp and set of 6 large surround speakers, but for general use I do also like to use the TV’s built in speakers. I’ve used a bit of bass and treble boost but the sound is still ‘small’, quite good but like it’s from a portable radio, and not an overly big one at that. I thought I might have a fault but the comments from others seem to suggest it’s the compromise of the ultra thin design of OLED TVs, not just this Philips. This doesn’t seem to fit with the Philips marketing quote of “Hear every detail with DTS HD Premium Sound”... Just how? The TVs speakers are not good enough by far and I can’t get the high-end sound that the TV pulls in over the net out to my AV Amp. 3: Top third of the TV is only a few millimetres thick - seems a little curved at the very top? After googling, it appears that some owners and reviewers have spotted a minor curve to the top line that’s so thin. Some call theirs ‘a bit bent’ or ‘with kinks’, however, for mine I’d say it just has a very slight curve in the middle. This in no way affects the pictures on screen and is not visible from any viewing position, which indicates just how minor it is. Looking at some of the other super-thin OLED screens they too appear slightly curved, even bent, but only when looking along the top edge of the screen. This seems to be trait of these new screens, perhaps occurring during being boxed or in transit. One manufacturer seems to have bonded their OLED panel onto a few millimetre thin sheet of glass, this would appear to prevent any permanent bend, probably by pulling the OLED screen flat after any inadvertent moderate bending, in transit or handing. Personally, both for integrity and aesthetic reasons, I would have preferred the whole case to be 47.5mm deep. Except, as now, for the last 4 centimetres away from the side edges being <5 millimetres which does add to the stunning looks, rather than the top quarter of the TV that’s <5 millimetres.

PHILIPS HAS MADE A GIANT LEAP AHEAD FOR THE NEXT GENERATION IN PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN WHEN IT COMES TO VISION WITH ITS NEW 9000 SERIES. THE EYE IS YET TO EXPLORE AND DISCOVER DETAILS BEYOND ITS LIMIT.CONTRAST HAS BEEN THE PROBLEM OF GOOD PICTURE , NOW WITH ITS NEW TECHNOLOGY, A PERFECT VIEW IS EMERGED WHEN A QUAD CORE ,4K ULTRA HD, ANDROID POWERED WITH 16 GB MEMORY IN A RAZOR SLIM DEIGN,EXPANDED BY AMBILIGHTS . NO VIEWER EXPECTS NOTHING MORE....

Gekocht voor €100 omdat de vorige eigenaar een hele fijne zwarte lijn onderin beeld zag. Als je TV kijkt valt dat eigenlijk zo goed als niet op. Had hem gekocht als bladmuziek monitor tijdens het drummen maar onze 9 jr oude samsung begon kuren te krijgen, wat een geluk dat we deze in de schuur hadden staan! Hup, in de woonkamer en wat een mooi beeld. Geluid is niet van het beste maar met de soundbar van Onkyo merk ik dat niet. Snelheid is ook niet gek bij het bedienen van het menu. Best blij met dit toestel. Maar het transporteren is wel tricky. Het scherm is zo dun dat je het gevoel hebt dat bij het minste of geringste verkeerde beweging het scherm kan breken.

TV is fantastisch. Super beeld en geluid. Maar toen deze defect raakte, wat ook nog in de garantie viel, duurde het precies 50 dagen voordat de tv gemaakt was. Dus de service is niet geweldig, maar gelukkig doet hij het weer.

Uitstekende beeld en geluidkwaliteit. Een genot om naar te kijken in combinatie met 3-zijdig ambilight.

Tot nu toe altijd Philips TV gekocht vanwege goede beeldkwaliteit (na beeldvergelijking bij diverse winkels) en diverse specs (voldoende HDMI aansluitingen, beeldverbeteringsfuncties, vertonen films via usb-hdd, e.d.) en betrouwbaarheid.