Philips 17PF9936 17-Inch LCD Flat Panel HDTV-Ready TV
Flawed design and support
I am lowering my rating of this set.  This is an HD set however when powered on it always wakes up in analog mode and you must manually switch it to HD mode. Customer service says that is by design and cannot be fixed.<br />Tried to resolve this via the web site - no help on line.  Sent e-mail & two days later got e-mail response suggesting I call the 800 number.  Called and went through the menu to get a recording that I had been routed to voice mail but \\"the person at 3901 does not subscribe to this system. Good bye.\\"<br />I bought this to use in a home office.  It sits next to my PC monitor with the analog computer output to the TV and the digital PC output to the PC monitor.  This doubles my monitor real-estate when the TV is in PC mode.  There is an adjustable size and position picture-in-picture function (not HDTV) in the PC mode so you can watch TV while using the TV as a PC monitor.<br />Good things:  great picture, lots of adjustments, 1080i HDTV input, component video (DVD) input,  3 sets of AV inputs, analog VGA input from PC, sound is richer than expected with such small speakers, output for powered sub-wolfer, nice FM radio with 40 presets.<br />Bad things: height not adjustable, no wide screen PC vidio modes like 1600 x 1024 (max is 1280 x 1024), universal remote could be more universal, requires external FM antenna, non-standard remote usually cannot be learned by non-phillips universal remotes.