I took a look at the Phillips on the Best Buy website, it's on sale from a normal price of $1,599.00. It has good ratings from the customers. I can't imagine anything not being HDCP compliant but you had better make sure before buying. Some one posted here they bought a Phillips TV from 2005 and it was not. Your potential model has 3 HDMI inputs which is good you just want to be able to use them.

The Sony has excellent customer ratings (on Amazon) and is about the same price, one online source showed $1,499.00 with free shipping, if this qualified at BB for the free Blu-ray player though it may be worth a few extras bucks at purchase to get the player if you don't have one yet. The Sony give up a HDMI but adds a computer input. The Sony also has a list of trademark features like the 24p input capability.

Me personally I'd choose the Sony. It would really come down to which picture you thought was best and it seems like both models would be easy to find. If you go with Sony the extended warranty might not be a bad thing if not too expensive. My Sony tube HDTV messed up not long after the factory warranty was gone. Luckily when I bought it it was on sale and I took the extended warranty. I also had a couple low end Phillips things like one of those Tv's with a built in DVD that didn't last long. So I've had issues with both brands. One thing about my Sony it has virtually unrivaled picture quality and the best upconverting of lower video resolutions of anything I've ever owned. The picture from our VCR is unbelievable, the best I've seen from VHS. I have a LG upconverting DVD player hooked to it using HDMI but the picture from other sources that the TV upconverts is as good or better. The LCD you are considering mentions it does this upconversion as well.