In Australia, the rights to the Magnavox brand are not owned by Philips but by Mistral Ltd, a Hong Kong trading company that uses it to sell audio / video equipment of a different make.

The RC-5 protocol that has its origins within Philips, uses, for instance, a total of 14 bits for each button press.

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 ).

The PVR-USB2 was silently replaced with the PVR-USB2 + which is identical both visually and terms of features, but uses a Conexant chipset rather than the Philips chipset in the old model.

Until 2010, TV1 uses the Philips PM5534 ( PM5544 with clock ) during the off-air hours.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

Around 1999, Philips Lumileds introduced power LEDs capable of continuous use at one watt.

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

Sony's MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems, introduced in 1992, that were both targeted as a replacement for the Philips analog cassette audio tape system: the other was Digital Compact Cassette ( DCC ), created by Philips and Matsushita.

WebTV was launched on September 18, 1996, within one year after its first round of financing, with WebTV set-top boxes in stores from Sony and Philips, and WebTV's online service running from servers in its tiny office, still based in the former BMW dealership.

In 2005, the trio celebrated its 50th anniversary with two special CD issues, one featuring their most popular releases through their long years of recording ( released by Philips Records ), and the other an anniversary collection of new music ( released by Warner Records ).

Philips Medical Systems produced one such device called the ' Polytome.

Dusty Springfield would both feature and epitomize this element on her Philips recording of " The Look of Love ", a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and one of the most respected American pop interpretations of the bossa nova.

Two escalators failed at Five Points station, and one escalator failed at Dome / GWCC / Philips Arena / CNN Center station.

According to the Philips webpage, it was possible for a DCC recorder to recover all missing data off a tape even if one of the 8 audio tracks was completely unreadable, or if all tracks were unreadable for 1. 45 mm ( about 0. 03 seconds ).

The band released one album with Philips in 1969, titled simply The Charlatans.

Not long before the end of production Philips introduced a half-speed mode, the V2000 XL or eXtra Long, doubling capacity and making it possible to store 16 hours ( eight hours per side ) on one single tape.

One by Philips, one by Microdisplay Corporation and one from Forth Dimension Displays.

Link: The Faces of Evil, released in 1993 for Philips ' CD-i video game console, is the only one of the three Zelda games for the CD-i in which Link is the protagonist.

In the early 1990s two high-density optical storage standards were being developed: one was the MultiMedia Compact Disc ( MMCD ), backed by Philips and Sony, and the other was the Super Density disc ( SD ), supported by Toshiba, Matsushita and many others.

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.

Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde ( 1538 – 1598 ) was one of the leading spirits in the war of Dutch independence and an intimate friend of William I, Prince of Orange.

Henry Carey was one of the best at satirizing these poems, and his Namby Pamby became a hugely successful obliteration of Philips and Philips's endeavor.

Pavel approached electronics manufacturers such as ITT, Grundig, Yamaha and Philips with his invention, but the companies felt that no one would ever want to wear headphones in public for listening to music.

The 1992 film also marked one of only several film roles played by comedian Emo Philips which he also helped produce.

OpenTV 2 was ported on more than 40 different types of television set-top boxes such as the one from Pace, ADB, Amstrad, Daewoo, EchoStar, Grundig, Humax, Hyundai, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Sagemcom, Samsung, Cisco / Scientific Atlanta, Sony, Toshiba and Thomson ( now Technicolor ).

Because the DualDisc CD layer did not conform to Red Book specifications, Philips and Sony refused to allow DualDisc titles to carry the CD logo and most DualDiscs contain one of two warnings:

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

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

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

CCETT, IRT and Philips developed a digital audio two-channel compression system known as Musicam or MPEG Audio Layer II ( Emmy Award in Engineering 2000 ).

The DAT recorder mechanism was considerably more complex and expensive than an analogue cassette deck mechanism due to the rotary helical scan head, therefore Philips & Panasonic Corporation developed a rival digital tape recorder system with a stationary head based on the analogue 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.

* In 1982, the original 100-kHz I²C system was created as a simple internal bus system for building control electronics with various Philips chips.

Philips developed an alternative noise reduction system known as Dynamic Noise Limiter ( DNL ) which did not require the tapes to be processed during recording ; this was also the basis of the later DNR noise reduction.

Philips responded with the digital compact cassette, a system which was backward-compatible with existing analog cassette recordings for playback, but it failed to garner a significant market share and was withdrawn.

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 encoding was derived from the MUSICAM ( Masking pattern adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding And Multiplexing ) audio codec, developed by Centre commun d ' études de télévision et télécommunications ( CCETT ), Philips, and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ( IRT ) in 1989 as part of the EUREKA 147 pan-European inter-governmental research and development initiative for the development of a system for the broadcasting of audio and data to fixed, portable or mobile receivers ( established in 1987 ).

CCETT ( France ), IRT ( Germany ) and Philips ( The Netherlands ) won an Emmy Award in Engineering 2000 for development of a digital audio two-channel compression system known as Musicam or MPEG Audio Layer II.

The european Pro Electron semiconductor numbering system originated in a similar way from the older Mullard – Philips tube designation.

For a while in the early and mid-1970s, Philips also discussed a compatible audio-only format they called " ALP ", but that was soon dropped as the Compact Disc system became a non-compatible project in the Philips corporation.

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 ".

Developed by MCA and Philips of Holland, it utilized an optical reflective system read by a laser beam.

All the early reel-to-reel machines and the first cassette formats, the Philips VCR and the Sony U-matic used this system.

* Digital Compact Cassette, Philips system with digital audio on compact cassette

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.