Philips 19PFL5422D 19-Inch LCD HDTV

 (37 customer reviews)

I picked this TV up at Best Buy a few days back. It was the only one that didn't have a box with damage. Paid $450 plus taxes. I spent a good hour or two fiddling with all the TVs in the same shelf that were from 19" to 26" HD sets. There were 26" of unknown brand that were the same price, slightly more or less, but all had either terrible sound or video, and the majority were of a lesser resolution than this TV.
It does have slight leakage from the backlights but only videophiles like myself will notice, and honestly its hardly noticeable.
I really like the automatic picture sizing feature, it does a great job resizing the screen with different video sources automatically and stretching them in ways that don't make the picture look bad or way off-scale. Some of the time I still resort to setting the mode manually but for the most part I live it alone.
The ATSC tuner works really good, switching between channels doesn't take very long compared to other sets. This...Read more

Rather Then bogging you down with conversational points I'll try and list the facts of this HDTV.

Video: The Video is excellent, Although with a 8ms you can see a slight blur while gaming. I noticed this while playing on a low def PS2 game. The only other complaint is the slight white hue around the screen. It's a bit distracting but nothing too serious.

Audio: The speakers with the set are generally good, for the size they're a bit above average. I hooked up some external speakers and that problem was easily solved.

Design: The TV looks great, hands down. But i did have some trouble with the Connection Ports facing downward, it can be a hassle to plug in your DVD player for the first time. But this is nothing too terrible.

Overall:

In retrospect I'm very happy with this purchase, It's worth the price. And overall an amazing HDTV.

Pros: Great video,Decent Sound,Good Design,Easy Install.
Cons: White backlight...Read more

For those of you that have problems with this turning itself off and screaching a dozen times during warm up, here's the fix:

Take the back panel off, remove heat panel around the motherboard and the cable attached to it. Up by where the cable comes in from the power panel, you'll see 3-4 blown capacitors. They look like little black & gold beer cans, and you'll see how the top is domed, and/or the bottom is blown out. Any that look like this need to be replaced.

I needed three 1000uf 10V, and one 470uf 16V. Got them from STSI.com for $8 shipped, and three days later with 15 minutes work with a soldering iron and it was fixed. Make sure you don't put them in backwards!! The stripe down the side is the negative (-) side--the board is marked for pos & neg.

Yeah, it's still junk, but for $8 it was worth fixing.