The Philips 55-inch 4K LED TV may not be as premium-looking as TVs from brands like Sony and Samsung, but Philips has done well to make sure it doesn’t look like a low-end TV either. Right out of the box, the first thing I noticed was the slimness of the bezels on the sides and the top. The frame feels metallic and premium although the casing is inherently plastic. It also isn’t the slimmest smart TV out there, but neither does it feel too bulky, I feel Philips has hit a sweet spot in the price-to-design ratio and you will be satisfied with how the TV looks for the money you pay for it.
Picture quality is easily the most important aspect when it comes to TVs, and at least in some cases, separates the budget TVs from the premium ones. The Philips 8200 55-inch 4K TV’s IPS panel offers a pretty enjoyable picture quality. The display might not be as rich and crystal clear as QLED TVs, but the Philips TV does offer excellent clarity and good colour reproduction. Philips highlights that the TV comes with P5 Picture Engine, which supposedly offers improved details and vivid colours while offering natural skin tones. This is true as Vivid mode does offer brighter colours while keeping skin tones natural rather than oversaturated, something that I find annoying in my 43-inch Mi TV 4X.
The Philips 8200 55-inch 4K TV comes equipped with two 8W full-range speakers that deliver a total of 16W sound output. On paper, this looks underwhelming and you’ll find rivals like the Redmi Smart TV X55 offering louder and more powerful 30W speakers. My Mi TV 4X 43-inch priced at Rs 29,999 offers 20W speakers.
Out of the box, the Philips 8200 55-inch 4K TV runs Android TV 9. If you’re used to any other Android TV out there, the interface should look familiar. You get a rather stock Android TV experience with not a lot added on the top unlike, say, Patchwall on Mi TVs. The TV does come with Philip’s own app gallery that supposedly offers applications that are not available on Google Play Store. However, the Philips app gallery is fairly limited in India. For all intents and purposes, the Play Store is where you will find all your favourite streaming platforms. Netflix comes pre-loaded and you can download Hotstar, Prime Video, Sony LIV, and so on.
Browsing through the Android TV was fairly fluid and smooth thanks to the quad-core processor powering the device. There were times apps like Netflix crashed while browsing, but I didn’t see any crashes while watching content.
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