The task force consisted of around four to eight persons, though according to Philips, the Compact Disc was " invented collectively by a large group of people working as a team.

A CD-R ( Compact Disc-Recordable ) is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony.

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.

I²C (" eye-squared cee " or " eye-two-cee " Inter-Integrated Circuit ; generically referred to as " two-wire interface ") is a multi-master serial single-ended computer bus invented by Philips that is used to attach low-speed peripherals to a motherboard, embedded system, cellphone, or other electronic device.

The compact disc, invented by Philips and Sony, helped greatly in boosting the company's sales and market share.

In 1926, Philips invented a technique of adding yet another grid to combat the secondary emission that the tetrode suffered from.

In 2000 Philips ' consumer electronics division ( business unit Audio ) invented the Streamium brand for a " Connected Home ".

Ambilight is a feature invented in 2002 by the Philips ASA lab ( a central development lab of Philips Consumer Electronics, also responsible for development of flat TV ) and Philips Research, both situated in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

The Class D audio modules employ a control method called UcD, invented by Bruno Putzeys and patented by Philips Electronics.

The Philishave shaver was invented by Philips engineer Alexandre Horowitz, who used rotating cutters instead of the reciprocating cutters that had been used in previous electric shavers.

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

Philips Semiconductors would pick up on the vision of Philips Consumer Electronics and task the " advanced system lab " to prototype this vision ( first demos end 2004 ).

Later in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc.

" Mary Philips, in her own stage hit A Touch of Brimstone ( 1935 ), refused to give up her Broadway career to go to Hollywood with Bogart.

By the time Sony came up with MiniDisc in late 1992, Philips had introduced a competing system, DCC ( the digital compact cassette ).

Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include Lanix, Hyundai, Sony, Vortec, BMW, Vizio, Toyota, Dell, Samsung, Kodak, Matsushita / Panasonic, Bimbo, GE, Nabisco, Ford, Microsoft, Cemex, Zonda, Philips, Pioneer, Airbus, Plantronics, Siemens, Jaguar, Pall Medical, Tara, Sanyo, Volkswagen and vimay.

In Europe, a whole range of Philips MSX2 systems NMS 8230, 8235, 8245, 8250 and up features either 360 or 720 Kb 3. 5 " floppy drives.

By the Spring 1971 Gerry Bron's deal with Philips / Vertigo was over, so he set up his own label, Bronze Records.

Waite Philips led a rescue crew up, but the 7 men on board were killed on impact.

This line up started with Karl Blake, Steve Cannell and Allison Philips.

One member of the crew, John Philips, tried to reach the magazine with a lighted match to blow up the ship, but was prevented by two forced men.

The desirable undulations of paths and islands and bands of shrub plantings would ideally undulate in elevation too: " break up the level by throwing up elevations ,' Philips suggested, " so as to answer the double purpose of obscuring private walks and screening other parts from the wind.

This set up Sevilla's first-ever European triumph, the 2006 UEFA Cup Final in the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven on 10 May 2006.

Until early 1980, the format had no " official " name ; however, the LaserVision Association, made up of MCA, Universal-Pioneer, IBM, and Philips / Magnavox, was formed to standardize the technical specifications of the format ( which had been causing problems for the consumer market ) and finally named the system officially as " LaserVision ".

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.

Although Philips and Grundig agreed on a common tape format, they came up with machines that were radically different mechanically.

The Four Seasons then left Vee-Jay for Philips Records, and EMI's Capitol Records picked up the U. S. rights for both the Beatles and Frank Ifield.

Philips is said to have threatened to hit Pope with a rod he kept hung up at Button's coffee house for the purpose.

However, the Royal Commission's recommendation was not implemented by all police forces, and so in 1978 another Royal Commission was set up, this time headed by Sir Cyril Philips.

Scoles entered the race in the last 90 days of the campaign, when the original Democratic candidate, Greg Philips, was called up for Reserve duty to support the Iraq War.

He also picked up the nickname ' Batman ', because the famous theme song was played at Philips Stadion every time he scored.

During this battle, two brigades of Pleasonton's cavalry under Colonels John F. Philips and Frederick Benteen caught up with Price's rear guard as it covered the crossing of the Marias des Cygnes River by the Southern supply train.

When Philips and other manufacturers were entering the American market, General Electric reacted by setting up the " International General Electric Company " in Paris.

Moreover, the back-end service would allow Philips to build out an " after-sales " relationship with their customers through the web-based-extension and would stimulate some early form of web-based social networking with the streamium cafe web site that was set up by Mark Tuttle.

In 1992, Bernard Luskin, Philips Interactive Media, and Eric Doctorow, Paramount Worldwide Video, successfully put the first fifty videos in digital MPEG 1 on CD, developed the packaging and launched movies on CD, leading to advancing versions of MPEG, and to DVD.

The first Philips CD-i player, released in 1991 and initially priced around USD $ 700, is capable of playing interactive CD-i discs, Audio CDs, CD + G ( CD + Graphics ), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs ( VCDs ), though the last requires an optional " Digital Video Card " to provide MPEG-1 decoding.

Besides Philips, several other manufacturers produced CD-i players, including Magnavox, GoldStar / LG Electronics, Digital Video Systems, Memorex, Grundig, Sony (' Intelligent Discman ', a portable CD-i player ), Kyocera, NBS, Highscreen, and Bang & Olufsen, who produced a television with a built-in CD-i device ( Beocenter AV5 ).

* Video Cassette Recording, an early videocassette recorder system by Philips

Philips ' CD-i players with the Full Motion Video MPEG-1 decoder cartridge would play both formats.

Philips ' preferred name for the format was " VLP ", after the Dutch words Video Langspeel-Plaat (" Video long-play disc "), which in English-speaking countries stood for Video Long-Play.

Video 2000 ( or V2000 ; also known as Video Compact Cassette, or VCC ) is a consumer videocassette system and analog recording standard developed by Philips and Grundig to compete with JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax video technologies.

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.

This was featured in Philips VR2840 and Grundig's Video 2x8 machines.

* Philips VR2025 rebranded Grundig Video 2x4 Super

* Grundig Video 2x4 Super 800 – series II machine with noiseless Picture Search at 7x forwards and 5x reverse ( also Philips VR2025, Siemens FM404 )

Philips and Grundig intended Video 2000 to correct the failings of the VHS and Betamax formats whilst providing the potential for further developments.

Published photos clearly show the nomenclature VMC120, suggesting that 60 minutes per side were possible, but Philips retired Video 2000 before the development was ready for market.

The Philips VR2020 was the first mass-marketed model of the Video 2000 format sold in the UK.

Philips released the first Video 2000 VCR, the VR2020, in the UK in 1979.

Notably, whilst Siemens had re-badged Grundig VCR machines, for Video 2000 they adopted those from Philips.

This was soon followed by the competing VHS ( Video Home System ) format from JVC in 1977 and later by other formats such as Video 2000 from Philips, V-Cord from Sanyo, and Great Time Machine from Quasar.

* Video 2000 ( Philips )