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I would be realy interested to know who buys these piles of crap, how stupid do you have to be to be fooled by a TV with flashing lights.

I bet the owners of this piss poor excuse of a TV think it has good contrast. Dumb ass, its the Disco around the edge of the TV thats making you think that, you still cant see whats going on in dark scenes.

Philips are laughing all the way to the hash cafe with this one!]]>Jun 4th 2008 8:20AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/philips-launches-9600-ambilight-lcd-tvs-in-uk/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/philips-launches-9600-ambilight-lcd-tvs-in-uk/
While Philips does have some issues with contrast and artifacts in dark scenes, generally speaking the picture is pretty decent. However, their Ambilight feature is the real deal. I never want to go back to watching TV without it. The depth enhancement is real. And the fact that you can watch TV in a dark room, with no other lights on, and not strain your eyes like you would without Ambilight, is totally kick-a$$.

And while you can create an ambient lighting situation by just putting a lamp behind the TV, that doesn't even hold a candle to Philips' feature because Ambilight automatically adjusts the light level of Ambilight to match what's going on onscreen, and it changes color to match what's onscreen as well so the ambient lighting effect is dynamic, unlike a lamp which puts out constant, harsh white light.

The Ambilight system rocks and if you've never seen it in real life and you make comments bashing things that you know nothing about, then all you've done is made yourself look like an idiot. Good job.
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As for the whole concept, the aim of any good TV is to make you feel like you are part of the action, immerse you in the image. Now if ambishite does that for you then all well and good, I would love to be in your world when you go to watch sports/films/whatever and have flashing lights around your eyes mounted on glasses. If philips were to market these glasses would you buy them. The world will judge you by your answer.

Its a con, simple as.

"While Philips does have some issues with contrast and artifacts in dark scenes" understatement of the decade, to be fair though its not just philips.]]>Jun 4th 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/philips-launches-9600-ambilight-lcd-tvs-in-uk/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/philips-launches-9600-ambilight-lcd-tvs-in-uk/(and with no reflecting surfaces interferring, so that it provides
only 'ambient' light, not direct lighting)
does exactly the same thing for your eyes & the perceived contrast
benefit for just a couple of £/$.

It's supposed to be easier on your eyes and have a little bit of an
improving & amplifying effect on your perception of the contrast level(s).

Done for a few £/$ it's well worth trying (I reckon it's worth
it)......

.......but if the 'price' was that you had to buy a Philips LCD TV?

No thanks.

It's been way a long time since too many reviewers thought they were
on the leading edge.

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