Philips Ambilight 43PUS6814/12 TV 43 inch LED Smart TV (4K UHD, HDR 10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, Smart TV, Alexa built-in) light silver (2019/2020 model)

I purchased this TV (I'll call it the 'Philips' from now on) to replace my 40-inch Samsug HD set, which after 5 years was looking lost and lonely in the corner of my living room. I watch a lot of physical disc media as well as YouTube and Amazon Prime streams; I am very concerned with quality of picture detail, sound and colour, and felt after 5 years I must upgrade from HD to 4K UHD, despite not owning any 4K media. My understanding was that 4K would improve the quality of HD Blu-ray and DVD. The 65-inch screen size would allow me to display those physical media bonus features (photo galleries, advertisement literature, etc) at legible proportions. I measured up the space I could allocate to a TV and 65 inches was just about right. It's vital you take measurements, because the TV at first looks gigantic until it is situated in its final resting place. Even better if you can go study a 65-inch TV in the real world so you're prepared for the size of it. I purchased the Philips via Amazon Prime with a £200 discount for £699 and it was delivered 48 hours later by two gentlemen who carried it into my living room. The box is intimidating and heavy, approximately seven feet-long. The enclosed instruction sheet made the connection of the stand easy, though the sheer mass of the TV can make lying it flat to commence the operation quite tricky. The rear connections are easy to fit. The power cord is plugged into the opposite end of the set. My choice of TV is the silver rim, which is accompanied by a white back-panel (to reflect the Ambilight more efficiently). The remote-control is white and two AAA batteries are included. I stood my Philips on the existing reinforced glass, metal and wood cabinet. I was dubious concerning the stand because it seems very small compared to the set, but it's absolutely fine, heavy and sturdy (secured with seven screws, two clips and a white back-plate). Onto the Philip's settings, of which there are many, which means, for a TV-phile like myself, a range of options to perfectly fine-tune all operations. I disabled all image enhancement filters because one should always discover what a TV's default standard is before fiddling with settings in case they are undesirable or superfluous; so far, I've seen no need to reactivate any. I wirelessly connected the Philips to my broadband, then paired the remote-control to the TV; no trouble at all. I don't watch anything but discs or internet streams, so skipped the TV channel detection and tuning systems. I previously owned a Philips HD set with two-strip Ambilight and always enjoyed it. I jumped at the chance of obtaining a three-strip version covering a much larger area of wall. The new Philips set Ambilight is gorgeous, with many modes and options. Now, and finally, the picture and audio quality. I played scenes from two Blu-rays ('Star Wars The Last Jedi' and a 'Hammer Horror film') to contrast two very different decades of film production. Star Wars was outstanding, a cinema-grade image; I was stunned how well a HD Blu-ray upscales. I am struggling to imagine how much better it could look via a 4K Blu-ray. I could clearly make out all the surface details of spacecraft, and reflections on the spacecraft portals. The surface of Crait (the mineral plant) looks beautiful, and the final battle there throws up so much texture and detail that it's almost 3D. The Hammer Horror film was full of grain, it being a lower-budget and older production, but every ounce of detail was present and looked larger than life on this massive screen; it made the 'horror' aspects once more seem creepy for this jaded old film buff. I also played some DVD format TV and film discs and they all look an order of magnitude superior to my old TV, even old black & white episodes of American shows from the 1950s that show no signs of enlargement deterioration and look better, more nuanced, than through my 40-inch HD Samsung. Sound-wise, the Philips is quite good and I would advise you do not purchase a soundbar until you have studied the on-board audio quality because it's satisfying, particularly the AI-enhanced mode. In conclusion - well, my praise is all over this review. This fantastic TV revitalises the home media experience and I can't wait to run all my favourite films and shows through it. It is a phenomenal piece of technology and I know that anybody upgrading from a smaller standard HD TV will be shell-shocked and delighted by the technological improvement. Don't feel intimidated by its size because the benefits are more than worth it. My set cost £699 via Amazon Prime and it's the best £699 I've ever parted company with.

Awesome!! We bought this TV to replace our previous 32" model. I'd noticed for some time that the picture quality on our old TV appeared to be getting worse....either that or my cataracts were developing quickly. Well, the picture quality on the Philips TV convinced me that I needn't be overly concerned about my eyesight. Quality is simply amazing. Sound is also amazing. It is also easy to quickly alter picture and sound by using some pre-sets depending on whether you are watching a film, game, music etc. Now, shortly after getting the TV, my son-in-law came to visit. He was rather impressed to then said, "Oh, it's a 4K TV" "Is it?" I replied. He looked at my vague expression and said, "You don't know what 4K is, do you." I admitted defeat. He then explained that 4K was ultra high definition TV. Apparently there are not many 4K broadcasts at the moment although there is some 4K content on Prime Video and Youtube. He selected a 4K Youtube video of an aquarium to show me. It took a while but eventually I did manage to drag my jaw back off the floor. The video quality actually appeared to be more real that reality itself if that makes any sense. I now find myself often playing Youtube 4K video during breakfast; aquarium, log fires, snowfall all look wonderful. The TV quickly links to Amazon Echo or you can talk to the TV through the remote. You can control some basic functions with your voice. I'll be honest, I find it really cool to simply say, "Alexa, turn on Philips TV" and the TV turns on (my name is actually Philip). Ambilight was another feature that I didn't fully understand when I bought the TV. It is a collection of LED lights on the back of the TV that glow onto the wall behind your TV. Their colours change, synchronised to what ever picture is showing on the TV. Now, at first I thought that this was just a clever gimmick that wouldn't often get used, however I'm finding that it really is a very pleasant feature, causing a nice ambient glow in the TV corner of the room. In short, a fantastic bit of kit. I've stopped worrying about my eyesight.

UPDATE 1/5/2022 Updates to the firmware have now removed the use of the USB port to play video content. Everything that used to play fine now has a 'cannot play video format' error message and you can't roll it back. The picture is great especially if used with a 4k signal on either Prime/Netflix/YouTube/4k Blu-Ray etc. Great clarity and the HDR+10 is a useful addition if you come across such content. It has Prime and Netflix built in but the lack of app availability is limited otherwise, mainly to radio stations and foreign channels and movies. It does not support Android or Apple so many apps are unavailable. I wanted WWE Network but you can't get it so having to access that through the built in Internet Explorer, which is slow and often unresponsive, awkwardly moving an arrow cursor around the page. The built in speakers are pretty good although they are underneath so if you use the stand/table top some sound gets muffled and lost into the table. Better if placed up on a wall where the speaker sound is more open. The Ambient light feature is a good addition but I can't really see what difference it makes other than I can use it to sort of light the room and save on main room lights. Its a clever function but I suspect the first thing to go on this TV is likely to be the bulbs which are inside the back panel. Alexa is ok but if you already have one in the room, you will need to silence the microphone on that one first or they just get confused! It has a handy USB connection which I have been using to watch films on a USB stick. It seems to handle most formats of MP4 and MP3. What with a SKYQ UHD box, 4K Blu ray player and Sound Bar, the HDMI slots have quickly filled up, there is never enough!! Its a decent bit of kit at this price bracket and overall I would recommend, even though its not perfect, but what is these days!

A great TV - for the price you really can't go wrong the picture quality is top notch, lots of setting to tweak as you like it. Only gripe is that in dark conditions the blacks do come off a little grey. Unlike other reviewers I found Alexa very easy to setup up; just be sure that you need to enable the 'Philips SAPHI smart skill - otherwise you will not find the device.

Update 2 - 1 month +a couple days Tv started making a loud bong bong sound every 2 seconds, over everything we tried to watch. Unplugged the tv, let it sit for 20 minutes. Power back up and off we go loud bong bong every second - it was a form of torture ! After a few hours figured out the tv has lost internet connection. I found it hard to believe the Tv was designed to do this. After further investigation I found it was Alexa built into the Tv. When it loses internet it demands remedy by playing bong bong every second..... Disabling Alexa appears to have fixed the issue. That was a very annoying few days to figure that out! Update 1 month In - Still struggling to get it reliable Flirting with returning this. It is so unreliable. It shows that Ambilight Hue is enabled every time you turn on the TV - but to actually turn it on you have to go dumpster diving deep in menus to turn Ambilight Hue Off then On again - then it it actually works - having to do this EVERY time you turn it on is miserable, but that pails in to insignificance with everything else. Power up the TV and Sound system and you have a fight on your hands, first of all it will report that the cable to the sound system is missing, this will block you form changing to the tuner or anything else until you have unplugged and plugged the HDMI lead back into HDMI 1. Then you get picture but no sound. Philips shows it is send ing sound through the HDMI to the sound system but the sound system is not getting any sound. Change the Philips to use the TV Speakers and you get sound through the TV, change it back to use HDMI (sound system) and Philips declares it has lost the cable again. Keep messing around plugging things in and out again and it will eventually work. I have tested the sound system and AppleTV against a Panasonic TV and it works great out of the box If you spend an hour every time you turn it on it will eventually all work. You have to be determined. Original Review shortly after purchase: Ideally there would be a way to disable the Smart TV elements so you can add Smart TV elements through the HDMI ports supplied. The Menu and Smart TV elements are very slow and clunky - takes 4 seconds to respond to remote presses and the SmartTv overlay insists on coming up when not required. I really like the picture. I really like the Ambilight. For reasons best known to Philips the Ambilight +Hue option turns itself off and you have to menu folder dumpster diving to turn it back on. Also discovered if you have too many bulbs/devices attached to the Hue Hub the Philips TV reports that there are no hue lights attached to the Hue Hub. That was head scratcher for a while, until I realised that the Philips TV adheres to the device/bulb limit much more strictly than the Hue Hub does. I have added an AppleTV 4k and an Panasonic vsx-934 to it to make a great home theatre. This gives me Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos all the way. The Satellite tuner is awful - it found over 800 channels 80% of which are locked and can't be accessed, the ones you want to access would normally come in a FreeSat package but that isn't there so it make navigating TV very painful indeed. The Freeview appears to be Ok - but I have a poor Freeview reception so wasn't able to test it. Tried setting up the DVR on the TV but it just plain refuses to see any USB drives attached to it, will keep trying but harder than it should be. The ARC and RC relay were surprising features that made very remote control everything else and the sound automatically relayed to the AV Receiver. Ran into issues of randomly losing sound when AppleTV 4k plugged directly into TV which was solved when I connected AppleTV into the receiver direct. I suspect it was to do with Audio formats that just confused the TV. Once I had everything worked out, set a limited number of channels in the Sat TV Tuner to Favourites - it made using it much simpler. All in all this would be much better TV if you could disable all the SmartTV parts and just lock it to only ever seeing/using one HDMI then plugging all the Smart stuff into the AV Receiver. But thoroughly enjoying UHD Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos experience. Just wish it had been a little easier to get all setup and working right.

Bought this for our son for his bedroom for Christmas. Easy to set up and it looks and sounds great. He mainly uses it for gaming and it is in the desk area of a high sleeper bed so the glow behind the tv looks great in that space, the size leaves plenty of room for the effect without losing screen size. The added bonus is the use of the alexa through the tv and ability to turn the tv off via alexa to hint when being ignored that he's supposed to be turning it off. He soon gets sick off turning it back on after a couple of times LOL. Had it for a while now and no problems.

So far, so good, it ticks all the boxes of a good tv. The ambilight is amazing...really brings atmosphere to the room and is a visual treat. Sound is ok, however, I had to treat the tv to a soundbar which now gives a richer sound and makes it feel you're at the cinema when watching films. Definitely recommend. ******Update**** The TV is still amazing, however, the latest software update managed to muck up the connection between tv and remote control. After a couple of days speaking with Amazon and Phillips, it seems the software for the tv completed successfully but it wasn't completed for the remote control, hence, every time we pressed the 'HOME' button on the remote control, it kept resetting the tv. This meant we could not access any of the tv settings. After another few days, I had to download the updated software from phillips, buy a usb stick, unzip the downloaded software onto the stick and then plug it into the tv before turning it on in order for it to take the tv back to factory settings. Thankfully, after all this aggro, the remote control is working as it should with the tv. The FLAW on this tv (and I think it's a big one) is the fact that you can only access the settings through the remote control and not the tv itself - I feel that, if we could have had access to the settings from the tv itself, it would have been really easy to take it back to factory settings in a flash. That said, I hope all future software updates are clean and that this problem does not happen again.

Ambilight is simply an amazing addition to any TV & allows for a more immersive and enjoyable experience watching TV. Also as it can integrate with existing hue bulbs, and sync colours it really creates a great experience. Occasionally there are glitches in the software which mean unplugging the TV and plugging back in. This is disappointing and would have preferred the Android TV software or bugs to be fixed by Philips. Integration with Alexa is also a massive benefit & means voice commands can be used to turn the TV on or off and it can be programmed into routines i.e. "goodnight" switching everything off. Remote is very cheap and although it does include voice control for Alexa, for the price of the TV I would have expected a remote with a better build quality.

Come Philips garantisce e la maggior parte dei compratori lo conferma, nel panorama dei televisori di livello riesce sempre a distinguersi in maniera limpida e netta. Già proprietario di 3 TV Philips tra cui una serie 2017 naturalmente sempre AMBILIGHT ed un OLED 2019 sparsi per casa, posso garantire che anche in questa fascia riesce ad affermarsi un gran televisore e soprattutto unico nel suo genere. I giochi di luce, la brillantezza ed il coninvolgimento dell'immagine sono veramente INCREDIBILI, questa versione offre Ambilight su 3 lati [32 LED in totale!] in pratica ben 18 in più rispetto alle versioni precedenti, rende tutto molto più bello e da favola, oltre naturalmente all'ottima risoluzione, la scelta della colorazione e quindi dell'effetto Ambilight è legata esclusivamente al gusto dell'utente che può scegliere se le luci debbano seguire il video, l'audio, il suono oppure un set di opzioni fisse a colori dinamici. Da non sottovalutare soprattutto per le tipologie differenti di audio su televisori ultrapiatti in commercio, il validissimo e potentissimo impianto audio DOLBY ATMOS integrato unico, [per dirvi, la soundbar BOSE l'accendo quasi mai]. Risoluzione ottima, colori ben calibrati, hardware SMART TV perfettamente funzionante ed intuibile tanto quanto l'utilizzo del telecomando che io, a differenza di altri utenti, trovo assolutamente perfetto e pratico, tasti soft-touch e materiale ottimo, il bianco poi lo trovo stupendo più speciale, esclusivo e di nicchia, come anche tutto il retro della scocca, la foto che ho inserito può dare già un'idea degli effetti video ma credetemi dal vivo, per chi lo sa bene, fa ancora più scena e lo vivo interamente a pieno. Unico piccolissimo appunto, se tale può essere definito più come nota di miglioramento, riguarda l'R&D controllo qualità Philips, dato che il primo ricevuto aveva 2\3 pixel bruciati solo nella parte inferiore, ma ancora peggio è stata la consegna da parte del corriere, ovvero ricevuto il pacco con l'impronta di una scarpa molto grossa al centro del packaging che ne ha provocato la rottura\taglio della scatola ed il completo incurvamento del TV, da brivido..., ma qui subentra la prontezza e l'efficacia del servizio Amazon che mi ha prontamente sostituito l'articolo dispiacendosi e scusandosi per gli inconvenienti. Che dire, grazie, contentissimo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Llevo un año usándola y la recomiendo. ( Philips ha actualizado el Firmware en un año 4 veces ) PROS: - Calidad de Imagen ( 4K increible ) - Ambilight - Estética CONTRAS: - No te permite cambiar el aspect ratio de la pantalla desde dentro de las Apps ( Prime, Netflix, etc ) - El material del mando parece de juguete. - Sonido normalucho ( a veces, en alguna ocasión, retumban los altavoces ) La recomiendo MUCHO.

Hab den TV vor 2 Wochen noch für 869 € gekauft, jetzt gibts den für knapp 200 € weniger, schade das Amazon mir hier nicht auch noch den Rabatt nachreicht :) ansonsten ist der TV Top für den kleinen Preis, Saphi OS ist nix besonderes, da ich aber die SMART TV Funktionen nicht nutze, ist es mir egal. Ich lass alles über den AVR mit angeschlossener Shield TV PRO, Xbox, SetTop Box laufen. Dolby Vision funzt perfekt über Shield. Bild in HD für normales TV ist ok, Bildverbesserer hab ich alle ausgemacht, da sehr unschöne Nachzieheffekte komische Umrandungen bei Gegenständen. Verstehe ich nicht, warum das noch bei einem 2019 TV auftritt, besonders wenn man hier Werbung mit P5 Processor macht. Ambilight hatte ich an meinem vorherigen PUS7118 schon, ist jetzt bei dem TV etwas dezenter und entspannter als bei dem 2016 Modell. TV startet auch sehr schnell, ich nutze eine Harmony Elite + Hub sowie Alexa und Google Home Sprachsteuerung. Die FB von Philips liegt verpackt im Schrank. Ansonsten kann ich den TV für anspruchslose Nutzer empfehlen :D

TV muy gruesa y la imagen me ha decepcionado,necesita de calibrar la imagen para poder verla con buena calidad.

Alla ricerca di un televisore da mettere in camera mi sono imbattuto su questo philips con ambilight e conoscendolo me ne sono subito innamorato. Il prodotto a mio parere era abbastanza economico, quindi mi sono fatto coraggio e l'ho acquistato. Diciamo che ha dei difetti ma tutto sommato sono molto soddisfatto. Partirei parlando degli aspetti positivi: quello che mi è piaciuto di questo TV è senza ombra di dubbia la qualità dei materiali per non parlare dell'estatica stessa, io personalmente lo adoro. Per fare un esempio banale il piedistallo è in metallo pesantissimo, ciò' garantisce sicuramente un'ottima stabilità. Inoltre sono pochissimi i televisori in circolazione di questa colorazione, io ho la camera bianca e credo che si abbini alla perfezione. La qualità del pannello 50” è sorprendete, si tratta di uno schermo con tecnologia VA, diverso dalle altre misure che invece sono IPS. Questo permette di avere un contrasto migliore e neri più profondi. L'ambilight è semplicemente fotonico, bellissimo, ti permette di godere a pieno le scene dei film, una volta che lo si usa non si torna più indietro. Le diverse impostazioni permettono di seguire il video dello schermo, ma anche il ritmo della musica. Gli aspetti negativi purtroppo sono legati al software, motivo per cui ho dato 4 stelle. Il sistema è molto lento, basato su Linux, c'è molto ritardo tra la digitazione sul telecomando e l'azione del TV, inoltre mancano tantissimi programmi anche famosi come PLEX, che io uso tantissimo. La skill di Amazon Alexa si arresta di continuo ed è pertanto inutile. Consiglio infatti di compare lo stesso televisore ma con il sistema Android dentro oppure di aggiungere una firestick 4 k per risolvere tutti i problemi e godervi a pieno questo televisore.