Today we'd like to congratulate prominent Play-Fi partner, Philips, on there success with this year's EISA awards for their televisions featuring DTS Play-Fi. They've been graced as the best product across three categories with three different televisions family offerings.
For the past 42 years, the EISA organisation (Expert Imaging and Sound Association) has been appointing juries of tech experts and guru’s, now from 60 of the most respected specialist technology publications from 30 countries across the globe, to find the very best of TV, imaging and sound products, leading to the EISA Awards become the ultimate recognition of the AV industry’s peers.
Now, onto the illustrious awards! First up, the 55OLED809 was voted as the EISA Best Buy OLED TV for 2024-2025. The EISA judges said:
A mid-range TV that comfortably outperforms its price tag, the 55OLED809 marries its high-brightness OLED EX panel to Philips’ latest P5 AI processing engine, with stunning results…. accompanying the 55OLED809’s superb picture performance is a 70W/2.1-channel speaker system offering clear, expansive sonics. Philips’ set also caters to gamers, with automatic game mode switching, VRR to 144Hz, rapid response times and a feature-packed Game Bar menu. And with its Ambient Intelligence V3 system automatically adjusting pictures based on ambient light conditions, you’ll get an outstanding HDR performance even in a bright room.
Next up, ‘The Xtra’ 65PML9009 was voted as EISA Best Family TV 2024/25, and the EISA judges acknowledged:
Philips’ 65PML9009, also known as ‘The Xtra’, makes use of up-to-date technology. A Mini LED model with a 144H VA panel and Quantum Dot colour filter, it employs the company’s 7th Gen P5 processor to craft sharp and detailed 4K HDR pictures, with brightness peaks reaching 1000 nits. The TV’s easy to use and customisable Titan OS puts a variety of premium apps and channels at your fingertips, so owners will never be short of something to watch. Helping the 65PML9000 blend into any living room are its slender anthracite-grey bezel and feet, plus three-sided Ambilight illumination. This is a family-friendly TV with no compromises.
On awarding the Philips 65OLED+959 as EISA Best Home Theatre OLED TV the judges commented:
Philips’ 65OLED+959 demonstrates the potency of the brand’s P5/AI Dual Engine processor, paired to a new OLED META panel, plus a 5.1.2-channel sound system developed by regular collaborator
Bowers & Wilkins. The result? Gorgeous 4K HDR pictures with true blacks, vibrant colours and a best-in-class HDR brightness, joined by an involving surround sound/Dolby Atmos experience that delights with its fidelity, power and scale. Adding to the TV’s high-end appeal is the new Ambilight Plus engine. The 65OLED+959 is a fantastic flatscreen that maximizes picture and sound quality in a beautiful aesthetic package.
All of these products feature Play-Fi and its expanded feature set of music playback, audio mirroring of TV content to every room in your Home or to a mobile device, and of course DTS Play-Fi Immersive Home Theater for incredible home cinema experiences with DTS:X and Dolby Atmos. You can use any combination of DTS Play-Fi audio speakers, sound bars, and subwoofers made in the last 12 years with these televisions to achieve all of this yourself at home.
Once again, congratulations to Philips for their tremendous wins here, and we look forward to next year!