Philips 50BDL3550Q/00 - 50 inch - 400 cd/m² - UHD - 3840x2160 pixels - 18/7 - SoC - VA - Android - Display

Smart and powerful is the Philips 50BDL3550Q signage display! With this UHD display , you'll have great 4K picture quality and 18/7 runtime release , as well as powerful features to make your everyday work easier. Develop your own content and publish it easily using the CMND & Create feature. With the built-in Android 8 operating system, you can access a wide range of apps while getting enhanced connectivity. Whether you're in corporate, public, education or retail environments, you're equipped for all types of use and benefit with this versatile signage solution.

But let's start with the picture quality of the 50BDL3550Q: The display from Philips has a brightness of 400 cd/m², which is perfectly adequate for bright locations without direct sunlight. The VA panel offers you significantly higher contrast values than an IPS panel. Thus, the display has a contrast ratio of 4000:1 and convinces both with digital signage content and with classic office applications with high black and white values. Together with the ultra-high resolution display, your advertising content, presentations or video clips are displayed much better and closer to reality.

In addition to the outstanding picture quality, the 50BDL3550Q also impresses with numerous functions that also make your work easier. Let's start, for example, with the integrated media player, with which you can easily play videos, music, Office documents that you play back via USB. You programme your content and the display does the rest: for playback, the 50BDL3550Q is brought out of standby mode. After your video, for example, has been played, the display returns to standby mode. Above all, this is an energy-saving and sustainable way of working. Easily plan schedules and create elaborate playlists within minutes, which are then played at set times. You also have the option of creating switch-on and switch-off times and linking them to your playlist. You can also have your desired apps start at a predefined time. This way, the display automatically plays your desired content in the morning and switches itself off again at closing time. This consumes no electricity and you don't need any staff to look after the display. By the way, your playlists and content are temporarily stored on the 50BDL3550Q, which means you don't have to worry in the event of a network failure. This way, customers and visitors won't notice a failure and you can work on the solution in the background. With Philips' FailOver feature, the display can automatically switch between primary and secondary inputs. So you can define a list of alternative inputs that the display can then access. This means that if your primary source doesn't want what you want, your content will still play.

For quick content creation and publishing, Philips offers you the free CMND & Create authoring software, which is aimed at both beginners and professionals and is a suitable solution for every user. You can download templates and built-in widgets and quickly share your photos, videos or text at . In addition, you have a SmartBrowser function: via the integrated HTML5 browser , you can easily surf the Internet and do not need a PC for this, which is a great advantage especially in meetings and discussions and enables agile working.

With a runtime release of 18 hours, 7 days a week, regular monitoring is an essential part. For this, Philips gives you CMND & Control: This gives you the ability to centrally manage and monitor your Philips display. Distribute software updates to all devices, switch displays on or off without having to be on site. Administrators can intervene at any time if there is an error message in the meeting room or if, for example, a meeting visitor has accidentally changed the channel. You are in control of your displays at all times and can quickly clarify or resolve situations. With CMND & Control you also have another advantage: if you use several Philips digital signage devices, you only need to create settings and playlists once and then distribute them to all displays via CMND & Control. And so that you can always see whether your display is running correctly and showing the right content, Philips offers you an automatic screenshot function. With the help of this function, screenshots are regularly created, stored on the FTP server at and can even be forwarded to you by e-mail if you wish.

Finally, let's turn to the topic of connection options. The digital signage device offers you many connections, which you would expect from a professional display. Not only do you get two HDMI 2.0 connections, but also a DVI-I connection and a VGA connection for connecting external source devices. For the connectivity of external hard drives or USB sticks, two USB 2.0 ports are available. The audio input and output with 3.5 mm jack connection is advantageous if you want to connect a microphone to the display or pass the audio signal through to a sound system. In addition there are two integrated 10-watt loudspeakers.

On the subject of durability, it remains for us to mention that Philips gives you a 3-year warranty on the 50BDL3550Q.

Our verdict on the Philips 50BDL3550Q display:

We are particularly impressed by the display's versatile features and functions. In addition to an integrated media player and Android 8 operating system, CMND & Create and CMND & Control are available. So you can not only design your own content and use templates, but also monitor and control the whole. This makes daily work easier, you can concentrate on the essentials and thus increase your productivity. What's more, the display can be used 18 hours a day, 7 days a week and is a reliable solution for any business.

This product is exclusively intended for professional use and is therefore not sold to private customers. We thank you for your understanding.