Anyone have experience of Philips 47" LCD TV - Philips 42PFL9632D?

[Paul Adams]

I know Ferral has one, from his post on the sticky up top, but I was wondering if anyone else has one of the 47" Philips Philips 47PFL9632D jobbies and could comment on its performance, specifically wrt display output from a computer source?

According to Philips, this TV can do 1920x1080@60Hz for "computer formats", yet all the reviews I read seem to quote 1360x768 as the maximum resolution from a PC source...

My intention is to get a TV hooked up to my amp, which in turn is hooked up to the HTPC which should be turning up in a few days to handle DVD, HD-DVD and blu-ray playback for all regions.
Ideally the HTPC (running Vista Ultimate) would be able to run at 1920x1080p and playing FullHD content would not require any resolution switch.

It's not a show-stopper if it can only do 1360x768 - I know it's 100Hz, handles 24/25/30/50/60Hz and 1920x1080p - it was just out of curiosity.

[Edit: fixed the wrong link, pointed to 42" product spec, though the features are identical anyway]

[TheAnimus]

one of my masters just bought one of these. He's quite happy, is able to run media center at 1080p via HDMI on it.

myself i'd never go for the ambilight thing, don't like it, as soon as theres something on the wall, or the walls adjacent it just looks wrong!

[Paul Adams]

Ordered the 42" flavour (42PFL9632D) after measuring our living room, plus finding the retailer ran out of the 47" one (but offered the 47PFL9732D which was 50% more than the one I ended up buying).

I love the ambilight feature on my 32PF9986 - I think it needs to be placed parallel to a plain, light-coloured wall, approximately 40cm away to offer the best effect, and everyone that comes to visit remarks on it.

I was not interested in paying ~£170 more for "ambilight surround" (all-round effect instead of left & right offered by "ambilight 2-channel") and a built-in card reader, which are the only differences between the 47PFL9632D and 47PFL9732D.

Ironically the last thing ordered will be the first thing to turn up - I should have the FullHD TV by the end of the week, but the HTPC will take a few weeks due to parts delivery times (and because Swedes tend to take 6-week vacations over summer so it's like parts of the country shut down!).

Some bargain HD-DVDs I bought have turned up, so I'm ready to roll once the HTPC turns up

*rubs hands*