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HT Staff  |  Sep 30, 2003  | 
Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) is the latest twist on venerable LCD technology, and the latest twist in rear projection televisions. Claimed by some home theater fans to be easier on the eyes for long-term viewing than plasma display panels, LCoS offers flicker-free high resolution images without a visible pixel grid.
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Philips and Microsoft in Agreement on
 |  Sep 10, 2000  | 

Thanks to an agreement announced September 8 by <A HREF="http://www.philips.com/">Philips Electronics NV</A> and software giant <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft Corporation</A>, "Enhanced TV" is coming your way. "Philips will license Microsoft TV software and collaborate with Microsoft on the development of a range of set-top boxes based on the Microsoft TV software and Philips Nexperia&ndash;based hardware platform," said the joint press release.

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Philips and Sensory Team to Improve Voice Control
SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2015  | 
Recognizing that voice control will play an increasingly larger role in audio/video and smart home technology as we move into the future, Sensory, a Silicon Valley technology company specializing in voice technologies, has announced a collaboration with Philips to create a “best-in-class” suite of speech recognition technologies.
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Philips Announces Dolby Vision Update for 4K Blu-ray Players
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2018  | 
P&F USA, the exclusive licensee for Philips TVs and video products in North America, has announced the availability of a long-awaited Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) update for two of its 4K UHD Blu-ray players.
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Philips Announces DVD-Video Recording Technology for Consumer Use
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 17, 1999  | 

Buried in all the hoopla and exciting digital television news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month was the answer to many DVD fans' prayers: <A HREF="http://www.philipsusa.com">Philips Electronics</A> announced that it has developed a technology for real-time recording of DVD-Video discs. According to Philips, the recorded discs can be played back on existing DVD-Video players, offering up to four hours of record/playback time at various levels of quality.

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Philips Announces Low-Priced Roku HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Dec 01, 2017  | 
P&F USA, the exclusive licensee for Philips televisions and video products in North America, has announced a new series of budget 1080p TVs built around Roku’s OS 8 operating system, which features an upgraded electronic program guide.
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Philips Backs SmartRight
Barry Willis  |  Dec 22, 2002  | 

Philips Electronics has thrown its weight behind "SmartRight," a digital content copy-protection technology developed by Thomson Multimedia, according to mid-December reports from Paris and Geneva. Originally called XCA, SmartRight is a smart-card&ndash;based technique that could allay Hollywood's fears about offering hit movies over the Internet or via high-definition broadcasts.

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Philips Exec: TV Copy Block Won't Work
 |  Sep 22, 2003  | 

Hollywood's efforts to keep its products off the Internet are misguided, according to Philips Consumer Electronics president and CEO Lawrence J. Blanford. Proposals offered to date won't work and will hurt both consumers and electronics manufacturers, Blanford told Congress on September 17.

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Philips Exits U.S. TV Biz
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 09, 2008  | 
Philips will no longer sell television sets in the North American market. Instead it will license its Philips and Magnavox brand names to Funai, which makes TVs for Wal-Mart among others. The license is for five years. Other Philips consumer product businesses in North America will not be affected.
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Philips Exits U.S. TV Business
SV Staff  |  Apr 09, 2008  | 
Manufacturing and marketing LCD TVs, especially in the U.S., is a tough gig. The margins are thin and the competitors are fierce, which is why may companies are outsourcing everything but their brand name to Asian manufacturers. Royal Philips...
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Philips Expands Nexperia
 |  Apr 20, 2003  | 

By December of this year, home-theater-in-a-box systems may be able to record television programs, archive digital videotape on recordable DVDs, and perform other technical feats now possible only with megabuck gear.

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Philips Launches Chromecast-Enabled 4K TVs
SV Staff  |  Jun 16, 2017  | 
P&F USA, the exclusive licensee for Philips televisions in North America, has announced that the Philips 5000 series of Chromecast-enabled 4K/Ultra HD (UHD) TVs previewed at CES is now available in four screen sizes at prices ranging from $600 to $1,200.
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Philips Lights Up Times Square for New Years Eve
SV Staff  |  Dec 29, 2008  | 
Philips has been slowly pulling out of the entertainment side of consumer electronics, but they're still a major player in the lighting industry. This year's Times Square Ball is going to be bigger, brighter, and surprisingly greener than...
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Philips Monitor Achieves HDR1000 Certification
SV Staff  |  Apr 24, 2018  | 
Philips has announced that its new 43-inch Momentum 436M6 4K/Ultra HD monitor, due out this summer for $1,000, is the first to achieve DisplayHDR 1000 certification from the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA).
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Philips Out, Funai In
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2008  | 
Funai. Get used to it. Philips had pulled out of the TV-making business in the US and Canada and pulled out Australia and New Zealand monts ago. It still handles design and manufacturing for the European market, its home field. They turned that...
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