Philips 24PW6006C

My family recently purchased this Philips television from a branch of electronics store Comet. I thought I would review it because I feel I have a good knowledge about electronics and new technologies in general. I am also the one who was given the role of setting it up and tuning it in so I can give my opinions on that as well. We have needed a new television for some while now, as our old one looks very odd the relatively modern house, in which now live. Our old television was and old black Goodmans tele that was around 8 years old. So we all jumped in the car and of we went to Comet. We ... more

Right, I just got this TV yesterday... So it is a first impression opinion... However, I played all day with it yesterday. UPDATE (23/04/04): 3 months on, still delighted with the telly. *APPEARANCE Well, that's a 24" (56cm visible) widescreen TV. It is silver, delivered with a matching stand, silver as well. The size is: 70 cm high, 46 cm wide, 47 cm deep. This TV looks good, but stay discreet. The stand is not the best looking, but lets face it, it is doing its job. Once you add your VCR, DVD or game console on it, you don't see it much. The stand is included, but you have to build it. Don't ... more

As the model number suggests, this is a 24” widescreen television – something that there are not too many of on the market at the moment. It seems to be the fashion to get the largest TV that you can fit in to your sitting room. Prior to buying this model I owned a much larger wide screen television and initially this unfairly blurred my judgement of this sets merits. The first thing to note is that a 24” widescreen is NOT big; in fact the viewable screen size seems similar to a 20” 4:3 television. Don’t buy this TV expecting to get the big movie screen experience – you’ll be very disappointed ... more

Plasma/LCD screens are great. We'd all like to have one of them stuck on our wall, and in a perfect world, those of us with small living rooms could enjoy widescreen cinematic glory to the max. In reality, most of us don't have two or three grand to spend on such an item, and if we care enough about aspect ratios to want a widescreen TV, but only have a couple of hundred quid, that means a 24-inch CRT model like this one. (I've seen these going for less than £200 in the January sales). Many manufacturers don't produce widescreen TVs smaller than 28" - so the 24" sector has become a niche ... more