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55 unusual facts about Philips'


6DJ8

New Old Stock (NOS) 6DJ8s and ECC88s produced in the past by major American or West European vacuum tube manufacturers (such as Philips or Amperex) remain extremely popular with and highly sought by audiophiles.

Air-Sea War – Battle

Air-Sea War and Battle are two games that were released together as the fourth cartridge in the official Magnavox/Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac (also known as the Magnavox Odyssey²).

Alan Stivell

In 1970, Stivell released his first hits, the single "Broceliande" and the album "Reflets", both on the Philips record label.

Alfred Brendel discography

He has recorded with only three record companies: Vox Records, DECCA and Philips.

Alfredo de la Fé

Relocating to Colombia in 1983, De La Fé signed with Philips and released three albums - Made in Colombia, Dancing in the Tropics and Alfredo De La Fé Vallenato - by the end of the 1980s.

Alloy-junction transistor

The post-alloy diffused transistor (PADT), or post-alloy diffused-base transistor, was developed by Philips (but GE and RCA filed for patent and Jacques Pankove of RCA received patent for it) as an improvement to the germanium alloy-junction transistor, it offered even higher speed.

Amperex Electronic

Originally located at 79 Washington Street in Brooklyn, New York, Amperex was a long-established manufacturer of transmitting tubes when they were acquired by the Dutch firm, Philips around 1955.

Antoni Głowacki

He attended the Wawelberg and Rotwand Advanced Constructing and Electronics School, a technical school and between 1928 and 1930 he was the head of the laboratory in the Philips plants in Poland.

Celedonio Romero

Celedonio made a large number of recordings, both solo and with the Romeros, which appeared on the Delos and Philips labels.

Children of Rain

Pam and Alan married in late 1967, forming the folk-rock group Ross Legacy and releasing Makes You Wanna Sigh, written by Pam’s brother and former Children of Rainer Denis, on the Philips label (40620) in 1969.

Colargol

Colargol first became famous through a series of children's recordings by Philips in the 1960s.

Cosmic Conflict

Cosmic Conflict from 1978 is one of the games for the Philips Magnavox Odyssey², a console from the 1970s in the 8-bit home video game console era.

Egon Steuer

He worked as an architect for a Dutch agency for 4 years, and co-designed the new headquarter building of Dutch multinational Philips N.V. in Eindhoven.

Elizabeth Farr

Farr has recorded a number of baroque composers for the Naxos label, notably Byrd, Philips and d'Anglebert on harpsichord, and a recording of Bach's lute-harpsichord music.

Federico Agostini

Among Agostini’s Philips recordings there are Bach and Vivaldi’s violin concertos, including the Four Seasons, which was filmed on location in Venice and available also on DVD.

FEL lamp

The FEL lamp (less accurately called a light bulb) is an ANSI standard 1000 watt quartz halogen lamp with a G9.5 medium 2-pin base used in many stage and studio lights that costs around $12 and is available from a number of manufacturers including GE, Osram, Ushio, Eiko, and Philips.

Felix Ayo

Has recorded for several record labels, some of them being: Decca, EMI Classics, Dynamic and Philips.

Film capacitor

German manufacturers such as WIMA, Roederstein, Siemens and Philips were trendsetters and leaders in a world market driven by the consumer electronics.

Gaggio Montano

Saeco, a household durables manufacturer, a subsidiary of Philips is headquartered in the municipality.

Gérard Caussé

His recordings include more than thirty-five issued under labels such as EMI, Erato and Philips.

Gooi

After the war, the town grew rapidly because of the construction of a Philips factory there (since closed).

Hans Gillhaus

The former netted 15 goals in only 26 games in his first season, helping the Philips outfit to an historic treble – he appeared 105 minutes in the campaign's European Cup final, a 0–0 penalty shootout win against S.L. Benfica.

Ingrid Daubechies

In 1985 Daubechies met mathematician Robert Calderbank, then on a 3-month exchange visit from AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey to the Brussels-based mathematics division of Philips Research; they married in 1987, after Daubechies had spent most of 1986 as a guest-researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Irving Green

In 1962, Green sold Mercury to Consolidated Electronics Industries Corporation (Conelco) a U.S. Affiliate of Dutch electronics giant Philips of the Netherlands but he remained Mercury Records' President.

Ivan Moravec

In 1998 a 2-CD compilation of Ivan Moravec recordings was published as part of the landmark Philips series, Great Pianists of the 20th Century.

Jerry Rees

For some time, Rees was attached as director to a project called Rand Robinson, Robot Repairman, financed by Interscope and Philips.

Jørgen Lindegaard

Jørgen Lindegaard graduated with a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark in 1975 and immediately joined Philips Telekommunikation, a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips conglomerate, where he stayed until 1977.

Karel Niessen

Upon Niessen’s return to The Netherlands in 1929, he took a lifelong position as a theoretical physicist at Philips Electronics in Eindhoven.

Kevin Hofland

Hofland played 20 matches in 2003–04 to help the Philips outfit finished second in the domestic championship, to AFC Ajax.

Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2

The pioneer LED street lights installation program was a collaboration between the Ministry of Works and Ministry of Finance, as well as the Public Works Department as the implementing agency and Philips Malaysia as the contractor.

Lamberto Gardelli

Gardelli was considered a specialist in the works of Verdi and he made several recordings of that composer's operas in the 1960s and 1970s, conducting pioneering recordings of the neglected early operas with record companies such as Orfeo and Philips.

Leo Gestel

Due to financial problems Gestel created advertisements (e.g. for Philips) for illustrated books.

Mario A. Rivas

Rivas managed the wireless communications business of Philips Semiconductor as well as its foundry operations, purchasing, and assembly and test with headquarters in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Mass Media Inc.

Mass Media left Philips in 1995 and the company became an exclusive developer for Time Warner Interactive.

Max Grundig

In 1984, the Dutch Philips group bought out nearly a third share and took over the management.

Minesh Mehta

Initially, in collaboration with a small number of brilliant innovators, this led to the creation of software for 3D radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery, resulting in the development of the early versions (initially referred to as “UW Stereo”) of what is possibly the most widely used software for 3-D radiotherapy and IMRT, PinnacleTM, currently marketed by Philips.

No World Order

This CD-only recording was available in an interactive version on Philips' short-lived CD-i format, as well as the Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

Ok, You're Right

The video also contain promotional advertisement from Carousel, a 139-second advertisement directed by Berg for Philips, won the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the most prestigious award in the advertising industry.

Old Caloundra Light

The lighthouse's last active power source was a 500 Watt 110 Volt Philips lamp, fed by the Mains electricity.

Peter Blasina

Peter, not unlike other technology media personalities, has attracted criticism for a thin technical background in the technologies he showcases, and for not disclosing affiliations with particular companies and brands such as Philips and Samsung.

Phyathai Hospitals Group

The Phyathai Hospitals group is equipped with advanced modern medical equipment and technology in cooperation with the European provider Philips.

RC-5

The field bit was added later by Philips when it was realized that 64 commands per device were insufficient.

Rockbox

Beginning in 2007, ports became available for a large number of additional ARM based targets, including players from Sandisk, Toshiba, Olympus and Philips in addition to newer Apple and iRiver players based on a variety of ARM7, ARM9 and ARM11 series processors.

Sajmište concentration camp

Its architectural centerpiece was a large tower which was used by Philips to transmit the earliest television broadcasts in Europe.

Spirit DSP

In the period 1995 to 2007 the company's products have been appreciated by the world-famous software and hardware manufacturers, which resulted in signing contracts with NEC, Samsung, Toshiba, Polycom, ZTE, Philips, HTC and many others.

Television in Argentina

HDTV-ready TV sales are increasing in Argentina, with the first TVs made available since 2005 by local firm Philips.

There's Only One Sun

There's Only One Sun is a 2007 short film/long form advertisement for Philips Aurea a new LCD technology for their televishon it was written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai.

Track 5

They won a Philips Five Minutes competition in 2002 and recorded a track "Not the One" which didn't chart.

Triangle Sun

In parallel writes music for television shows (“The King of the ring”, “Taffy”, “Miss Russia”) and commercials (“Beeline”, “Dove”, ”Philips”, “Panasonic’ etc.).

Triaxial cable

In 1992 N.V. Philips, Breda received the Outstanding Achievement in Technical/Engineering Development Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Triaxial cable Technology for Color Television Cameras.

UHAPI Forum

The UHAPI Forum was established in November 2004 by Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Access Co. Ltd. and the Digital TV Industry Alliance of China (DTVIA).

Vilmos Szabadi

The success of the concert (which was recorded by Philips), led to invitations from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Wedge base

Philips-branded sets and most store brands use an offset, with the longer anode (positive lead) being lower and the shorter cathode (negative lead) being higher on the wedge base.

Willy van der Kuijlen

Van der Kuijlen started out with a semi-professional contract; signing a contract with PSV Eindhoven meant that he could also work at Philips.

Wireless USB

A laptop with an Intel host adapter using an Alereon PHY was used to transfer high definition video from a Philips wireless semiconductor solution with a Staccato Communications PHY, all using Microsoft Windows XP drivers developed for Wireless USB.


Back to Bach

All tracks from this album are also included on the CD re-issue / compilation, Jazz Sebastian Bach (combined with all tracks from 1963's Bach's Greatest Hits aka Jazz Sébastien Bach (Vol. 1)) and also on the 11 disk Philips boxed set Swingle Singers.

Edith Picht-Axenfeld

After World War II Picht-Axenfeld performed at an intercontinental level, was active as a chamber musician and recorded for labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and Erato.

European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research

The Industry Panel, consisting of supporting companies, includes Bayer Health Care/Bayer Schering Pharma, Bracco, GE Healthcare, Philips and Siemens.

Fivepenny Piece

During the band's 1970s heyday they released over a dozen albums for EMI and then Philips, and reached the Top 10 in the UK Albums Chart with their LP King Cotton.

George Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby

Abercromby married Lady Julia Janet Georgiana Duncan (b. 1840), the daughter of Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown and his wife Juliana Cavendish Philips, at the earl's residence Camperdown House on 6 October 1858.

Grace Dieu Priory

The priory passed through the Phillips and March families until 1833 when Charles March Philips gave the priory to his son Ambrose Lisle March Phillips, who assumed the surname "De Lisle".

Herbert Philips

By the mid-nineteenth century the extended Philips family held properties and businesses throughout Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the family seat in Heybridge, Staffordshire, which Herbert inherited from his father Robert Needham Philips, M.P. for Bury.

Hypex Electronics

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

Igor Ansoff

He has consulted with hundreds of multinational corporations including, Philips, General Electric, Gulf, IBM, Sterling and Westinghouse.

International Open

International Tennis Open, a sports video game developed by Infogrames Multimedia and published by Philips Interactive Media in 1992

L'Homme à tête de chou

L’Homme à tête de chou is a concept album by Serge Gainsbourg issued in 1976 on Philips.

Magnavox Odyssey²

The lack of third-party support kept the number of new games very limited, but the success of the Philips Videopac G7000 overseas led to two other companies producing games for it: Parker Brothers released Popeye, Frogger, Q* Bert and Super Cobra, while Imagic released versions of their hit games Demon Attack and Atlantis.

MCA Solutions

The companies share several joint customers including the U.S. Navy, Bombardier Aerospace, KLA Tencor, Baker Hughes, Philips and ABB Group .

McCord Museum

The documents come from families (the Dessaulles, McCord, Armstrong-Deligny-Philips and Bacon families); from well-known individuals (Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Maurice-Régis Blondeau, Hélène Baillargeon Côté); from companies and associations (Women's Art Society of Montreal, Victoria Rifles of Canada, Gibb & Co.); and from collections (New France, British Empire, Concert and Theatre Programs, Valentines).

Optical disc

In 1975, Philips and MCA began to work together, and in 1978, commercially much too late, they presented their long-awaited Laserdisc in Atlanta.

PAL-M

Walter Bruch, inventor of PAL, explains Brazil's choice of PAL against these odds by an advertising campaign Telefunken and Philips carried out across South America in 1972, which included colour test broadcasts of popular shows (done with TV Globo) and technical demonstrations with executives of television stations.

Paula Morris

After completing a D. Phil at the University of York, under the supervision of Hermione Lee, and after a brief stint living in Manchester, she moved to London – working for BBC Radio 3 as a production assistant, Virgin Records as Press Officer for Virgin Classics, and PolyGram (now Universal) as Press and Promotions Manager for Philips.

Philips Pavilion

Arseniusz Romanowicz's Warszawa Ochota train station in Poland is supposedly inspired by the Philips Pavilion.

Raj Singh Arora

Arora has done commercials for companies such as like Tvs Scooty, Samsung Guru Mobile, Reliance Big TV, Candi Biscuits, Mountain Dew, Mc Donald's, Philips Led, McVitie's Biscuits, Nestle Munch, Wheel Detergent, Anne French and Centuary Mattress.

Sara Fulgoni

She has recorded the Mahler Symphony No. 8, Urlicht in Des Knabenwunderhorn and Elijah for Decca, Oberto for Philips, Suor Angelica and the Cherubini Mass in D Minor for EMI.

Stirling engine

Philips' management decided that offering a low-power portable generator would facilitate such sales and asked a group of engineers at the company's research lab in Eindhoven to evaluate alternative ways of achieving this aim.

Sylvania Electric Products

Today Philips markets an Ambilight feature, lighting the wall behind a flat display to soften the viewing experience.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

They can also be heard on the RCA Victor disc "A Splash of Pops", as well as on three Christmas albums — "Joy to the World" on Sony Classical and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" on Philips, both with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and "Holiday Pops" on RCA Victor with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra.

Toyohiko Satoh

Two years later, in 1970, he recorded the first LP devoted entirely to the solo Baroque lute; since then he has recorded extensively for Philips, Telefunken, EMI, Harlekijn, and Channel Classics Records.

Trinity Road Library, Bristol

It was constructed in 1896 in a Jacobethan style, to the plans of William Venn Gough, and bears an inscription with its original name, St Philips Public Library.

Up Above My Head

The single combined "Good Evening Friends" with the more fuller titled "Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air" (Philips PB 708), and peaked at number 25 in the UK Singles Chart.

Vic Lewis

Lewis toured the U.S. with the band at various intervals between 1956 and 1959, and recorded extensively for Parlophone, Esquire, Decca, and Philips.

William Lloyd Webber

When Aurora was recorded for Philips in 1986 by Lorin Maazel and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Greenfield of The Guardian called it "skillfully and sumptuously scored ... music as sensuous as any you will find from a British composer".

WQRZ-LP

WQRZ-LP was the first Broadcast Radio First Responder which earned American Radio Relay League Member Brice Philips the Small Business Administration's Phoenix Award, for "Outstanding Contributions to Disaster Recovery by a Volunteer".

Zhabei District

Major companies located in Zhabei include TÜV Rheinland, Royal Philips Electronics and Shanghai Bell Alcatel Business Systems Co., LTD.