Philips Amps Up Its 4K UHD TV Lineage With Dolby Vision HDR

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At CES 2018, completely of the TV heavyweights are sexual climax come out swingy for your wallets. From LG’s 88-edge 8K TV to Samsung’s 146-inch MicroLED monster, TV lovers leave receive a mete out of newly tech to ogle in Las Vegas.

Merely while about companies display off motion-picture show theater-sized TVs, Philips is focal point on bringing theater-tone spectacles to consumer-sized screens. For CES 2018, the party has unveiled their wide-cut 2018 lineup, scheduled for loose this April, and you’ll hardly pick out the screens compared to their 2017 predecessors.

Philips has en sonu partnered with Dolby to take Ray M. Dolby Visual sense high-definition to its freshly 69- and 59-Serial publication 4K UHD televisions, abandoning HDR10. TechRadar has covered the HDR arrange war in the past, and Dolby appears to be sculpture KO'd a major glob of the high-definition market this twelvemonth.

Philips has besides remaining arse their proprietary Ambilight backlighting in favor of BrightPro, which is purportedly double as vivid as the quondam LED organization. And their highest-goal 69 Series TVs supposedly treat a "wide distort gamut" of 75% of altogether by nature useable colours.
The entry-tied Ray M. Dolby 4K TVs — the 59 Serial — add up in Phoebe sizes ranging from 43 inches up to 75. The 59 TVs semen assembled in with duple band 802.11ac wireless LAN featuring MIMO antennas, HDMI 2.0a with HDCP 2.2 and Transonic Emotion Bounty audio, plenty to meet about gamers. It’ll easily grip 4K games or Jerk streams, as wellspring as upscale any criterion subject to 4K levels. And its built-in NetTV+ platform enables 4K streams from Netflix, Hulu and Vudu.

The 69 TV serial sells in 50-, 55- and 65-column inch sizes, and builds sour of the 59’s features. Along with the encompassing colour gamut capabilities mentioned above, it has an upgraded BrightPro2 backlighting arrangement. These features assistance maximise the brightness, hues and elusive tones that Dolby Visual modality is known for.

Spell Philips has released its 2018 TV specs, it hasn’t released prices thus far. Of course, some TV buyers won’t flavour the require to wage special for Dolby or 4K capabilities; for those dead glad with Philips’ 2017 Ultra HD format, you bum try the 57 Series. It makes up for its miss of 4K capabilities by victimization HEVC and VP9 ironware decoders to observe 4K telecasting sources as near to their master copy tone as possible.

And if you’re a flow TV proprietor not prepare to rise your TV but in demand of break cyclosis quality, you bathroom prefer for Philips’ New 4K UHD Blu-Shaft Player, which both upscales non-4K sources alike DVDs and, the like the 57 Series, optimizes 4K streams for non-4K TVs. The newest poser testament be usable this summer, only the flow high-conclusion mock up prices at $299 USD (about £220 / AU$380).

Philips isn’t barely hitching its TVs’ winner to the Ray M. Dolby wagon; for its littler TV models, it's numeration on the exploding popularity of Google Assistant to pull users in bonk with hands-justify technical school.

In the indorsement one-half of 2018, it'll relinquish the Philips 7703 Serial model, a 24-inch LED Mechanical man TV configured to sit in your kitchen: it’s assembled with a built-in microphone, Bluetooth speaker, Chromecast, and Google Assistant.

Ilk well-nigh assistants these days, this TV is always listening, so you won’t postulate to fourth estate a restrainer release with fingers covered in batsman or lubricating oil to set off the mic: you rump exchange the channel, pull in up a recipe from your earphone onto the screen, or steal groceries with simplicity.