56″ Philips Cinema 21:9 Ultra-Wide LCD TV

Philips sent us this awesome LCD TV together with their new Blu-ray player. First seen in CES 2009 and finally released in the Philippines last May, the Philips Cinema 21:9 is an ultra-widescreen LCD TV.



The LCD TV measures 56″ across and has a resolution of 2560x1080p, a 200Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time. This could also be perfect for hooking up with your PC and enjoy some big-screen gaming.

So far, I’ve been watching a couple of Blu-ray movies with it. Our friends from Tradeport sent us a batch of Blu-ray discs as they’re launching an watch-all-you-can Blu-ray rental service, ala-Netflix, in the Philippines (more on this later).



The Philips Cinema comes with 5 HDMI ports, a LAN port, USB port, WiFi 802.11 b/g, DLNA, among others. Dynamic contrast ratio is set at 80,000:1 but its got this LED wide-color Ambilight Spectra 3 which allows it to project crisp and vivid colors.It’s not that thin compared to other LED TVs we’ve tried before but that’s not a biggie. The edge of the back panel is lined up with lights that changes color depending on the videos projected on the screen. The wooden panel you see is just some minor carpentry we did so we can hook it up via wall bracket without punching a hole in my apartment wall.



The TV isn’t cheap either. Very limited number of stocks were released in the Philippines and one of these babies will set you back a cool Php350,000.