I thought Philips would have solved the problems with the new model 6516. Nope. Picture curved strongly towards the center in 4:3 mode. In 16:9 chunks of picture were eaten out. And yes, there was an irritating sound when swithing channel.

After two visits to repairs picture geometrics got even worse. I went back to the shop, and got Panasonic 28 inch PL1 instead and have been happy ever after (except poor teletext!)

I've bought my Philips PW6515 widescreen TV in Media MARKT (German chain with equipment) for a very special price (last products) ca. 430 Pounds. The picture, which interests me mostly, is very sharp and good quality. Some little picture bugs doesn't worry me because of 24 month service warranty. With DVD picture it is absolutely great. I had a choice between the Philips and the 100HZ Samsung Plano. 100 Hz equipment for under 1200 Pounds is, for me, controversial. Sound is good but I'm using external Yamaha receiver so it doesn't interest me much. I haven't problems with subwoofer but I can't expect much from plastic case.

I recently bought the 28" version of the Philips PW6515 32" widescreen TV. The major drawback with this set is when changing to superwide mode, chunks of the picture are lost vertically, very irritating.

A lot of people seem to be commenting on the geometry problems of the Philips PW6515 32" widescreen TV.
Surely Philips must be aware of this?
In spite of all I read I went ahead and bought one.
I am in general pleased.
The sound is very good.
The picture, especially with DVD's is good apart from, you guessed it, geometry problems at the sides resulting in
slightly bent vertical lines.
Viewing in 4:3 mode is fine, switching to widescreen (which of course is why I bought a WIDESCREEN model) results in the line bending appearing.
I must emphasise it is only slight.
I can probably even live with it.
I am reluctant to exchange the set in case the second set has worse problems such as those mentioned by other reviewers.
Time will tell whether I decide to report the fault.
Meanwhile I am quite happy with it, and if this one problem was sorted I would have no complaints at all.
It seems that the quality between different 32PW6515 sets varies somewhat.
If you get a good one then they are excellent value for money.
Come on Philips, this is damaging your reputation.
Please get the problems on this model sorted out once and for all, and tell us how to cure the sets we own.