Philips 27PT643R 27" Real Flat Stereo TV
great deal for the price
I bought this Philips 27PT643R 27\\" Real Flat Stereo TV a week ago at a Costco warehouse ($300). It has been released recently. I do share the comments with the July 19, 2003 posting, it relates my experience so far.<br />The TV hasn't shown any problems or noticeable things yet (I hope it won't).<br />For the price this is a great deal. I'm not sure why the other users have those buzzing problems, it seems so strange. The sound is great. We have two large speakers and now are not necessary, it is enough with the TV.<br />It's true that the image is darker than other TVs I've seen, and that the annoying \\"MUTE\\" setting stays all the time visible, but programming the features was quite easy.<br />Although it took us a while to set up the control of DVD and VCR devices. The manual puts the instructions simple but it didn't work that well. Also, for my Emerson VCR I had to try 6 different codes until I got the proper one. And I was surprised that is bilingual (English/Spanish) when my 4 years old Zenith was trilingual! Other than that, the menu features are ok. I didn't need the parental settings.<br />What I like mostly is that you can set your favorite channels with 4 buttons, so I asigned a channel per button and go directly to it without the need of zapping.<br />The only thing I dislike (and it's quite common with new TV sets) is that the TV completely depends on the control remote, only volume and channels can be regulated without it; for the rest, there is no way if something happens to the remote. I wish it had a protected front panel where you could adjust contrast, brightness, etc manually.<br />Overall, I'm very satisfied with it.