Comments on: Polishing the name of Philips

CEO Frans van Houten talks about the changing nature of consumer electronics and altering the culture inside a large organization.

[Eugenios]

Resurrection of the name of Philips

The title should read:

"Resurrection of the name of Philips"

By the way, what does Philips sell?

[pmpmpm]

Response to question on what the semiconductor unit at Philips sells:

Philips Semiconductors, highlighted in the CNET story, is one of the world?s leading suppliers of silicon system solutions and semiconductors for mobile handsets, digital TVs and Set Top Boxes, contactless payment chips, and in-car entertainment and networking ICs. It is one of the top ten global semiconductor manufacturers. A global organization, it operates twenty manufacturing sites and maintains sales organizations in sixty countries around the world. For additional information: www.semiconductors.philips.com

It is part of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, one of the world?s biggest electronics companies, with 159,709 employees in over 60 countries and sales in 2004 of Eur 30.3 billion. Philips is a Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technology company ? where simplicity is the goal of technology.

[kajohnston]

Quality /reliability TV set

I have been very pleased with the Philips tv that I bought at Costco.It has been gradually Going down hill but the problems have been in the The remote control of both power on off and remotechannel changer.The battery is new The program and picture are exellent.
I bought this set for my next door neighbor and it has not been serviced (Due to its size and weight and our location in the mountains of Colorado.) For a component to go bad this soon on such a excellent tv I thought you would like to know about this just incase it is a more general problem with the set.