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What makes this so special – aside from the fact that it’s included with the package rather than an optional extra! – is the fact that it’s curved, and allows the TV to move around that curve until you want to lock it into place. But we’ve still not got to what’s arguably its most inspired touch: its wall bracket. The Essence has already gone further than the vast majority of flat TVs to make wall hanging it an absolute doddle. What’s more, this speaker bar ‘connects’ to the audio output of the TV via a little row of touch-sensitive pins built into the mounting bracket, meaning there’s no need to mess about with anything so last year as audio cabling. Yet here again Philips has come up with a remarkably elegant solution in the form of a really smartly designed speaker bar that can – but only if you wish to use it rather than a separate audio system – be attached to the TV’s bottom edge using a simple two-screw mount. Speakers are always a thorny issue with extremely thin TVs, especially if you’ve got an eye on wall mounting. So thin is the TV’s bezel, in fact, that there’s only just room for a tiny Philips logo along the bottom edge, and a ‘pin-hole’ power light. Naturally the glossy finish of the receiver also matches the rich black finish of the extraordinary thin screen bezel – a bezel which extends barely half an inch in width around the entire screen a space-saving design flourish reminiscent of Toshiba’s Picture Frame LCD models. It does no harm to the external media receiver’s case, either, that it’s very nicely designed, featuring a glossy dark finish that looks almost as futuristic as the screen. In fact, in this respect the Essence actually outdoes Pioneer’s KRP-500A plasma TV, since while the Pioneer system required separate power cables for its screen and media box, this Philips puts power, video and audio through from the media receiver to the screen using just one ‘umbilical cord’.

It’s much tidier to have an external connections box, with just a single cable running between it and the screen.

For starters, if you’re serious enough about wall-hanging your TV to have splashed out the best part of two grand on an Essence, then the last thing you’ll want is to have to put up with reams of cables sticking out of it. However, far from being a disadvantage of the 42PES0001, I’d argue that this external receiver box is actually a good thing. Instead, the usual digital and analogue tuners are housed in an external media receiver box, supplied with the screen, along with all of the TV’s connections. The ‘price’ for this is the fact that the screen doesn’t actually have any tuners built into it. It’s worth adding, too, that the 42PES0001’s screen weighs under 17kg. What’s more, this stunning slimness isn’t compromised by any unfortunate big sticky-out bits like the one on, say, JVC’s ‘Super Slim’ 42DS9 sets. This might seem rather odd when I tell you that the TV actually ships fastened to a neat desktop stand, but believe me: the Essence takes the basic ‘hang it high’ concept and, in increasingly typical Philips fashion, ‘turns it up to 11′.įor starters, the 42PES0001’s screen is astonishingly slim just 38mm deep, to be precise. The key to what I love about this TV is that every single inch of it has been designed to make it the ultimate ‘hang on the wall’ TV.

Why? Because it combines elegance with cold but brilliant practicality so effortlessly that it has to be seen to be believed. This has always been true to some extent, but the Philips R&D department seems to have been in absolute overdrive this year, hitting us over recent months with such goodies as new, extremely powerful image processing, a debut LED backlit TV, and most recently a much-refined version of its Aurea Light Frame technology.īut you know, for all the cleverness, quality and sheer flamboyance of some of these earlier TVs, for me the new ‘Essence’ 42PES0001 is the brand’s most successful innovation to date. Whatever else you might think about Philips, you certainly can’t deny that the brand is a genuine innovator.