Philips also contributed eight-to-fourteen modulation ( EFM ), which offers both a long playing time and a certain resilience to defects such as scratches and fingerprints, while Sony contributed the error-correction method, CIRC.

In June 1985, the computer readable CD-ROM ( read-only memory ) and, in 1990, CD-Recordable were introduced, also developed by both Sony and Philips.

The Magnavox Odyssey², known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil as the Philips Odyssey, in the United States as the Magnavox Odyssey² and the Philips Odyssey², and also by many other names, is a video game console released in 1978.

In the past, Philips UK also included

* Philips Semiconductors, Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater Manchester and Southampton, Hampshire, both also earlier part of Mullard.

In 2007, Philips has entered into a definitive merger agreement with North American luminaires company Genlyte Group Incorporated, which provides the company with a leading position in the North American luminaires ( also known as ˜ lighting fixtures "), controls and related products for a wide variety of applications, including solid state lighting.

CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony ( not to be confused with MMCD, the pre-DVD format also co-developed by Philips and Sony ).

Philips also released several versions of popular TV game shows for the CD-i, including versions of Jeopardy!

Recognizing the growing need among marketers for networked multimedia, Philips partnered in 1992 with Amsterdam based CDMATICS to develop TeleCD-i ( also TeleCD ).

CDMATICS also developed the special Philips TeleCD-i Assistant and a set of software tools helping the worldwide multimedia industry to develop and implement TeleCD-i.

It is also used to sandbox HTML5 web applications in the Tizen architecture, in the commercial Wind River Linux solutions for embedded device development, and in Philips Digital TV products.

During the late 1970s the company released the Odyssey², also known as the Philips Videopac.

While it did work to a degree, it also caused confusion to the consumer as to the difference between " Philips Magnavox " products and " Philips " products, resulting in Philips marketing the 2 brands separately again.

The brand also has worked with Funai with their televisions after the Philips Magnavox name was popular.

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek ( in Dutch also Anthonie, Antoni, or Theunis, in English, Antony or Anton ;, ; October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723 ) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands.

Agilent Healthcare was purchased by Philips which became Philips Medical Systems, before the walnut-boxed, $ 300, original Rappaport-Sprague stethoscope was finally abandoned ca.

An example of gypsum crystals reforming in modern times is found at Philips Copper Mine ( closed and abandoned ), Putnam County, New York, USA where selenite micro crystal coatings are commonly found on numerous surfaces ( rock and otherwise ) in the cave and in the dump.

Following pressure by IBM, Philips and Sony abandoned their MMCD format and agreed upon the SD format with one modification based on MMCD technology, viz.

Ultimately, Philips abandoned any hope of trying to sell their VCR format in North America, partly because of the reliability issues, and partly because of the introduction of VHS that same year.

In the early 1980s, Philips merged Sylvania, Philco and Magnavox into one division headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, with a manufacturing plant in Greeneville, Tennessee.

With the help of some companies such as Philips and Osram Sylvania, halogen bulbs have been made for standard household fittings, and can replace banned incandescent light bulbs of low luminous efficacy.

In the early 1980s, GTE Sylvania sold the rights to the name Sylvania and Philco for use on consumer electronics equipment only, to Holland's NV Philips.

Magnavox is currently a brand for products made by Funai under license from trademark owner Philips.

In 1962 Philips invented the compact audio cassette medium for audio storage, introducing it in Europe in August 1963 ( at the Berlin Radio Show ), and in the United States ( under the Norelco brand ) in November 1964, with the trademark name Compact Cassette.

The " compact cassette " ( a Philips trademark ) was introduced by the Philips Corporation in 1963 and marketed in 1965 as a device purely intended for portable speech-only dictation machines.

The logo is a trademark owned by Philips and Sony and licensed to identify compliant audio discs only.

Philips named the videotape standard Video Compact Cassette ( VCC ) to complement their landmark Audio Compact Cassette format introduced in 1963, but the format itself was marketed under the trademark Video 2000.

Direct-Stream Digital ( DSD ) is the trademark name used by Sony and Philips for their system of recreating audible signals which uses pulse-density modulation encoding, a technology to store audio signals on digital storage media that are used for the Super Audio CD ( SACD ).

Plumbicon is a registered trademark of Philips for its Lead Oxide ( PbO ) target vidicons.

Senseo is a registered trademark for a coffee brewing system from Dutch companies Philips and Douwe Egberts.

For personal care products marketed outside the USA, Philips used the Philishave trademark until 2006.

The company was acquired from GTE by Philips in 1981 in order to gain the rights to use the Philips trademark in the United States ( Philco had been able to keep Philips from using its trademark legally because of the similarly sounding names ).

The system is called VideoPlus +/ ShowView in Europe because Philips has a trademark registration for " VCR ", and as G-Code (' G ' for Gemstar ) in Japan because VCR is not a common abbreviation there (' VTR ' is used instead ).

By 1992 the cost of typical recorders was down to $ 10 – 12, 000, and in September 1995 Hewlett-Packard introduced its model 4020i manufactured by Philips, which at $ 995 was the first recorder to cost less than $ 1000.

The concept was similar in principle to the bucket-brigade device ( BBD ), which was developed at Philips Research Labs during the late 1960s.

Industrial activities initially centred around tobacco and textile and boomed with the rise of lighting and electronics giant Philips, which was founded as a light bulb manufacturing company in Eindhoven in 1891.

Before commencing work, he returned to the Netherlands to make Industrial Symphony for Philips Electric which is considered to be a film of great technical beauty.

On 11 March 1927 Philips went on the air with shortwave radio station PCJJ ( later PCJ ) which was joined in 1929 by sister station PHI.

Philips owns the naming rights to Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, which is the home ground of PSV Eindhoven.

Philips is running the EcoVision4 initiative in which it committed to a number of environmentally positive improvements by 2012.

Philips have made some considerable progress since 2007 ( when it was first ranked in this guide ), in particular by supporting the Individual Producer Responsibility principle, which means that the company is accepting the responsibility for the toxic impacts of its products on e-waste dumps around the world.

In 2009 Lawrence Philips released a third version, called Metaphone 3, which achieves an accuracy of approximately 99 % for English words, non-English words familiar to Americans, and first names and family names commonly found in the United States, having been developed according to modern engineering standards against a test harness of prepared correct encodings.

* CD-RTOS-the operating system used in the Philips CD-i players, which was a special version of OS-9 / 68K v2. 4.

Although his pupils included Peter Philips and Thomas Tomkins, both of whom were active as keyboard composers, the native virginal school to which he had contributed so much went into sharp decline with a number of deaths in the 1620s and never recovered.

The first industrial factory to be illuminated by gas was the Philips and Lee cotton mill in Manchester which was fully lit by Murdoch in 1805, four years after the idea was first broached.

The Cretan War begins between Philips ' Macedonians, the Aetolian League, several Cretan cities ( of which Olous and Hierapytna are the most important ) and Spartan pirates against the forces of Rhodes and later Attalus I of Pergamum, Byzantium, Cyzicus, Athens and Knossos.

The building will be located on the St Philips site, which was demolished in Summer 2010.

" Thrashers " had actually been runner-up to " Flames " in the poll ( as a homage to the old Atlanta Flames ), and Philips Arena, the Thrashers ' new home, was built on the site of the former Omni, which had been home to the Flames.

The Hawks won all three games at Philips Arena, which hosted its first playoff games and earned its first sellout.

Their home is Philips Stadion, which is based in the Eindhoven borough of Strijp.