Philips 15PF8946 15" HDTV-Ready Flat Panel TV

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Philips 15PF8946 15" HDTV-Ready Flat Panel TV
Manufacturer: Philips
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Here is a LCD TV that not only enhances the decor of your home with its European styling and slim design, but also provides a great audio visual experience with features like Crystal Clear III, Active Control, Virtual Dolby Surround and unique flat speakers.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Philips 15PF8946 15-inch HDTV-ready flat-panel LCD TV is more than great looks. The perfect size for a small space, the less-than-3-inch-thick display provides an excellent audio/visual experience with features like Crystal Clear III, Active Control, Virtual Dolby Surround, and unique flat speakers. It even has a built-in FM radio tuner so you can listen to all your favorite radio channels, and up to 40 station presets make sure you tune in fast.

The high-definition (HD tuner not included), 1,024 x 768 XGA LCD panel uses the latest panel technology, such as Philips' proprietary Crystal Clear package of innovations featuring a 3D digital comb filter (eliminates dot crawl and color bleeding, enhancing fine detail, cleaning up image outlines, and removing most extraneous colors), Dynamic Contrast for deep blacks and pure whites, and green and blue color enhancement. The high 400:1 contrast ratio gives you better subtle color details and the ability to see the picture in bright light conditions, and the quick 16-millisecond response time means it's capable of handling fast-moving action--even 3D games--without image blur or lag. Active Control delivers the best picture setting, any time, from any source. The incoming signal is automatically analyzed and key picture settings, like sharpness, color, and contrast, are adjusted. The 4:3 aspect ratio is better for viewing analog broadcast TV and pan-and-scan-formatted video, but the TV has a 16:9 compressed picture mode so you can have a more realistic cinema experience.

Built-in flat speakers (4 watts per channel) sit on either side of the active-matrix TFT LCD, giving you full stereo sound without needing to connect to an external speaker system. Virtual Dolby surround-sound support simulates cinema surround-sound effects without the need for rear speakers. Philips' Smart Listening auto volume leveling eliminates drastic volume spikes while changing channels or when channels go to a commercial break.

Other features include 100 preset channels, Autostore for easy tuning, Auto Picture (five modes give you picture settings for different types of programming), Auto Sound (four modes to tailor the TV sound to enhance what you're watching), multilanguage onscreen display, sleep timer, integrated NTSC tuner and RF jack for terrestrial reception, ergonomic remote control, and an antireflective screen.

Want to do more than just watch TV? The 15PF8946 has an FM antenna connector for getting better reception, a rear composite input, and a component input that helps minimize digital and line-scan artifacts during DVD playback. And, because the TV is progressive scan, it can take advantage of the more filmlike images produced by progressive-scan DVD players. It has a VGA input too, which receives the signal from your PC so you can use it as a TV and a PC monitor. A set of side jacks has a composite A/V input with S-video, a mini headphone jack, and an audio in for using the TV's speakers with your PC.

What's in the Box
15-inch HD-ready LCD TV, stand, remote control, 2 AA batteries, user's manual.

Average customer rating: 4.5

Excellent choice
lack of documentation, customer service
Great if you need this much storage.
Excellent External Drive, terrible software
Seagate usb/firewire external hard drive

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Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000F3XIMY

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The Seagate ST3500641CB 500GB External USB/FireWire Hard Drive has the advanced features and blazing performance you need, for better storage and memory performance. It's exceptionally easy to use and gives you better storage for your film, video and audio files - and even the latest memory-intensive games. DiscWizard software simplifies installation SATA connection Includes cable, disc utility CD, quick-installation guide and mounting screws Operating Systems - Windows 98SE, NT, Me, 2000 and XP

Customer Reviews:

Excellent choice.......2007-06-01

A few months ago, I had to buy an external hard drive for my new iMac, mainly to store photos and home video, but also for backing up files.
So I did some minimal research on the web, user forums, etc. and saw a lot of comments on various Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate external hard drive models.

I finally chose this model, and have to say that I just love it. Here's why from a user's point of view:

* It has a USB 2.0 interface, as well as FireWire.
* It's quite fast.
* It's very quiet.
* You get "one-touch" backup. The Seagate comes with an excellent software utility called Bounce Back Express, which is very easy to set up and to use.
* It has an on-off button on the front.
* You can daisy chain more drives if you need more capacity.
* It's "hot swappable" which means you can plug and unplug without turning off your computer.
* You can stand it up or put it on its side.
* It looks very nice next to my beautiful iMac.

Hope that helps...

lack of documentation, customer service.......2007-05-07

I think the drive works fine, but I had questions about performing backups and wasn't able to get a good response from customer service. I'll keep trying.

Great if you need this much storage........2007-04-12

I found that it took longer than I expected to receive my "two day" delivery time. Unfortunately I did not keep the item. I found that my current hard drive had been "partitioned" coming from the factory and that I still had plenty of memory without the new purchase. Overall, I was very pleased to find this quality of an external hard drive, and that level of warranty for such a reasonable price. I have not found a deal to equal this price. Wish that I had needed the extra storage space.

Excellent External Drive, terrible software.......2007-04-01

This drive has worked perfectly, and seems very fast on Firewire-- with no cpu load like USB 2.0. Virtually no vibration, runs cool, and easy to use.

The included BounceBack software immediately caused system stability problems so bad I had to delete it. As I researched BounceBack software, I found that many others have had serious problems with it. The included version of BounceBack is rudimentary, so you'd probably replace it anyway.

I can recommend this 500GB Seagate drive as an excellent external drive, but you'll need to find other backup software. You don't need backup software, but it will make it easy to backup regularly.

Right after I bought this drive, I read that Seagate has released new external drives that are cheaper for the same capacity. Expect the older models (like this one) to become cheaper, while still being excellent drives.

Seagate usb/firewire external hard drive.......2007-03-13

This Hard drive is wonderful, I purchased according to the reviews of other websites discribing the durability, reliability and simplicity of this product... I am using this on a vessel in some of the harshest weather and climate around, in Alaska, on the water... As yet, I have had no problems with this device and look forward to years of faithful service... keep up the good work...

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