Philips 6000 Series 55-inch LED TV

The last TV that Philips sent me was the Cinema 21:9, and while it had its kinks, I liked it a lot. Philips also sent me the 55-inch 6000 series. After reviewing a TV like the Cinema 21:9, I was pretty hopeful about this one. So lets see how it did.

Nice and slim design, but that's about it

Design and Features
This TV looks pretty decent and is quite thin, although the border is quite thick. While setting it up, we realised that there was a screw missing for the stand, but the TV was surprisingly stable even with the missing link. After properly setting it up, I tried putting it on, but it just wouldn’t happen. I was quite puzzled, and kept trying until I found out that the remote had to be pointed to the left of the TV, and not where the feather-touch menu buttons were. That’s when I started having my doubts about this TV.

I decided to stop complaining about the narrow reach of the remote and go about checking other stuff out. Next up, I tried connecting a Bose 2.1 home theatre system and found that the HDMI cable’s input jack was a little too thick, and Philips hasn’t left enough place at the back for this to be connected to the HDMI input; another fail. Still, I was sure the rest would be A-OK, so I plodded along.

HDMI cables with thicker jacks have a tough time squeezing in

HDMI The Philips 6000 series has all the regular connections any Full HD LED TV would such as 3 HDMI ports, a USB port that plays movies, music and shows you images and the rest of the regular stuff; I’m talking about component, composite, etc.

Performance
After a rather disappointing encounter with the design and features, I was sure that the 6000 series would deliver. Again, I was wrong. I first tried it out with our test disc, played back from the Philips BDP2700/12 Blu-ray player, and it the picture was quite harsh. The colours seemed saturated, the contrast was terrible and there was a lot of motion blur even in slow moving scenes. I double-checked the TV as well as the Blu-ray player, but it all seemed fine.

The screen actually looks like a cloudy sky!

Even when there was no picture, the blank screen looked really patchy and the viewing angle wasn’t impressive either. And like I mentioned before, operating the remote can be a big pain, especially if you don’t know that you have to point it to the bottom left of the TV.