Philips 42PF7520 Plasma Tv

With a growing collection of televisions, in varying sizes they are getting a firmer hold in the market than a 35 stone wrestler.

Like their competitors they too have their own technology that promises to relight your viewing fire. Sounding like a division of Disney, Philips’ special picture technology is known as Pixel Plus which produces breathtaking natural pictures.

By increasing the number of lines and pixels you get a sharper image, with more in-depth detail. With its 3000:1 contrast ratio blacks are like the ace of spade and your colours could have been tinted with Loreal hair dye to give all over natural feel.

 
No HDMI conection. You have to use DVI input to get a HD quality picture. Major draw back.

There are two built in speakers that provide that home cinema-like audio experience, but if you want the feeling of being totally submerged at the pictures we would recommend getting additional speakers.

On the looks front you get the staple silver – which seems to be the universal skin of plasmas these day and there’s nothing that is outstanding in design – what you get is Joe Average in television terms.

To stand slightly out of the crowd they’ve added a recording function which allows you to watch analogue TV while recording a digital program – very handy when the footie clashes with Big Brother.

It’s easy to set up and comes with additional features such as teletext and a seven day electronic viewing guide.

However the biggest drawback to this television is there’s no HDMI port. It does has three Scart sockets and the AV3 does accommodate DVI-I with HDCP and is HDMI compatible but with so many sets on the market that are available with two HDMI inputs, this could be a feature that could cast the no vote.