Philips 42PF9966 42" Plasma Television Pixel Plus 2 with Ambient Backlighting

This state-of-the-art plasma screen technology gives you widescreen HD resolution of 1024 x 1024i pixels. It produces brilliant flicker-free pictures with optimum brightness and superb colours. This vibrant and sharp image will provide you with an enhanced viewing experience.

Enjoy the exceptional picture quality of a true High Definition TV signal and be fully prepared for HD sources like HDTV broadcast, Blu-ray DVD or HDVD. HD ready is a protected label that offers picture quality beyond that of progressive scan. It conforms to strict standards laid out by EICTA to offer a HD screen that displays the benefits of resolution and picture quality of a High Definition TV signal. It has a universal connection for both analogue YPbPr and uncompressed Digital connection of DVI or HDMI, supporting HDCP. It can display 720p, and 1080i signals at 50 and 60Hz.

Pixel Plus 2 is a digital picture processing technology that improves the resolution of still and moving pictures. It does more than adding pixels, it also makes the pixels better, resulting incredible sharpness and picture depth every time and from any source. And it does not just improve the resolution either, because you also benefit from improved colour reproduction, resulting in the finest colour details and superior brilliance.

The full-colour ambient lights offer you relaxed viewing and a unique ambiance via a soft light glow on the walls surrounding the TV. Research has shown that watching television with adapted ambient lighting promotes more relaxed TV viewing. The Ambilight colours automatically adapt to the images on the screen to add a new sensation to the viewing experience. The light can also be switched to fixed colours or various shades of white. In standby mode, the lights can be operated to any colour and create a unique ambiance in the room.

A DVI-I input connects the non-compressed highbandwidth digital RGB signal from source to screen. By eliminating the conversion of the digital signals to analogue, it delivers an unblemished and noise-free image, that is clear and flicker-free. The DVI input supports HDCP copy protection that allows viewing of copy protected programs from Digital Settop boxes, DVD players and HD recorders. DVI-I is future proof as it can be be connected to all HDMI devices (a converter cable is required). The DVI-I input also supports analogue PC-VGA and YPbPr Component video signals (adapters supplied).