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Not sure about philips TVs, but on sony TVs, which also use Android as OS, it is possible:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2349618
So if you google around a bit you'll certainly find some information whether Sony and Philips go the same way using Android for their TVs. As far as I remember the first Philips Android TVs some years ago did not use "Android TV (the TV operation system made by google)" but instead some kind of own Android implementation and this was stuck at Android 4.x back then. So...I'm not sure whether the philips branded TVs are a good choice regarding software stuff... they've never been good at software maintenance.
Keywords for your own google searching would be:
Philips sideload apk android app play store tp vision ...in some combination.
If sideloading android apps is working, then an installation of android kodi / SPMC might work. But then again it would be questionable whether automatic frameswitching, audio passthrough etc will work, perhaps even support of SMB shares and NTFS drives connected via USB port are things you should sort out before buying anything.
I'm quite sure it is a better solution if you simply buy a Raspberry (non 4k) or Odroid C2 or Wetek HUB (both 4k) and use it with LibreELEC. There you can be sure that development is proceeding and that most things just work out of the box. But the most important thing is that you'd have a community to ask questions and to sort out issues. Such a box is around 50 to 100$. That's perhaps way less money than what you would save if buying a tv of another brand or so.
I've got a Philips 42PFL6907 from 2012 and although Im still really impressed by the picture quality, the software is a mess from the first day... and every update got worse. From the day "philips" (TP Vision) announced to use Android as OS (2014?) I hoped it would get better for their products, but then again I read how terrible the support of their Android line was... philips support forum is always full of hilarious complains.