Yesterday, TP Vision introduced the latest Philips TVs for Europe, including new OLED models and high-end LCD LED models with Bowers & Wilkins audio system. It is striking that none of the new TVs have HDMI 2.1, and we also don’t expect 8K for the time being.
During a number of workshops we received more information about the Philips TVs for 2020 today, and some light was also shed on the plans for the coming year. Striking is absent HDMI 2.1. None of the new televisions on the market comes with the new HDMI standard. According to Philips, it currently has little added value for consumers. The TVs do support ALLM (auto low latency mode), which is part of HDMI 2.1 and allows a game console and a TV to communicate with each other to automatically select the picture mode with the least input stroke.
Another absentee was the Filmmaker Fashion, an image mode that was specially created to show films and series as the makers intended. Various manufacturers, including Panasonic and LG, have already announced TVs with this image mode and last year Philips also indicated that it would support this mode. However, the TVs presented this week do not yet have the Filmmaker Mode. The expectation is that this mode will only be present with the models presented during IFA 2020.
Finally, 8K was also absent, although not against expectations. Philips did show an 88-inch 8K television, but then as a prototype to show what the company can do with this high resolution. For the time being, Philips does not see that the market is really ready and waiting for the 8K resolution, but as soon as this is the case, Philips says it will be ready with a Philips 8K television. Whether this will already be the case at IFA 2020 remains to be seen.
Moreover, Philips has not added a 48-inch OLED TV to the range, including LG and Sony did show a model during CES. However, there is a good chance that we will see this TV during IFA 2020.
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