The CD-R, originally named CD Write-Once ( WO ), specification was first published in 1988 by Philips and Sony in the ' Orange Book '.

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.

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 to speak was the Speaker of the House of Commons ( later Master of the Rolls ), Sir Edward Philips, who described the intent behind the plot in lurid detail.

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.

* 1979 – Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.

In the first production runs of the Magnavox Odyssey and the Philips 7000, these were permanently attached to the console ; in later models, they were removable and replaceable.

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 late 2000, Philips Electronics introduced the DSR6000, the first DirecTV receiver with an integrated TiVo DVR.

* March 8 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.

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.

The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.

The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony ; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc Committee and ratified as IEC 60908 ( published in 1987 ).

A major advance came in 1968 when Fokker developed the first Dutch satellite ( the ANS ) together with Philips and Dutch universities.

* 1805 Philips and Lee's Cotton Mill, Manchester was the first industrial factory to be fully lit by gas.

* 1981 Philips sells their first Compact Fluorescent Energy Saving Lamps, with integrated conventional ballast

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.

These were the first microcontrollers with an integrated I²C-interface and were used in the first Philips ( Magnavox in the US ) Compact Disc players ( e. g. the CD-100 ).

One of the first ( portable ) cassette recorders from Philips, the Typ EL 3302 ( 1968 )

The first cassette machines ( e. g. the Philips EL 3300, introduced in August, 1963 ) were simple mono-record and-playback units.

The final NHL goal scored in Philips Arena was tallied by the Penguins ' Mike Comrie, an empty net goal and his first of the season.

The couple had five children: in 1628 their first son, Constantijn Jr., in 1629 Christiaan, in 1631 Lodewijk and in 1633 Philips.

Work on the CD-i began in 1984 and it was first publicly announced in 1986.

In 1993, American musician Todd Rundgren created the first music-only fully interactive CD, No World Order, for the CD-i.

There also exist a number of hard-to-categorize models, such as the FW380i, an integrated mini-stereo and CD-i player ; the 21TCDi30, a television with a built-in CD-i device ; and the CD-i 180 / 181 / 182 modular system, the first CD-i system produced.

Because the inability of PCs to play full-screen, full-motion, digital video was somewhat limited in the early ‘ 90s, the first release of this software was on the now defunct CD-i ( Compact Disc Interactive ) format.

The first game was originally released as the " flagship " product for the short lived Philips CD-i multimedia system / video game console.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

The player whose tile is in the topmost row ( closest to row A ) goes first.

If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.

Then, starting with the first player, each player draws six tiles.

The Rockies won, 9 – 2, with Andy Benes on the mound for the Diamondbacks, and Travis Lee being the first player to hit, score, homer and drive in a run.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

* GS — Starts: number of games pitched where player was the first pitcher for his team

" Number of times batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged when a player: ( 1 ) hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly ; ( 2 ) is awarded first base on four called balls ; ( 3 ) is hit by a pitched ball ; or ( 4 ) is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction ..."

Brady Anderson was the first, and currently only, player to be hit by the pitch two times in the same inning in an American League game.

To achieve a hit, the batter must reach first base before any fielder can either tag him with the ball, throw to another player protecting the base before the batter reaches it, or tag first base while carrying the ball.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

In more recent years, pure steals of home are rare, although a player may steal home plate during a " delayed double steal ," in which a runner on first attempts to steal second, while the runner on third breaks for home as soon as the catcher throws to second base.

The expression " You can't steal first base " is sometimes used in reference to a player who is fast but not very good at getting on base in the first place.

A player completes a turn batting when: he strikes out or is declared out before reaching first base ; or he reaches first base safely or is awarded first base ( by a base on balls, hit by pitch, or catcher's interference ); or he hits a fair ball which causes a preceding runner to be put out for the third out before he himself is put out or reaches first base safely ( see also left on base, fielder's choice, force play )