The Tragic Downfall of Philips

Damn.

Was a global super power, so was dealing more with ministers than consumers. Like today with big mri and CAT systems. from the 70s consumer electronics was much better from 🇯🇵, Korea, China. I was at headquarters and working habits were very lazy. Till the 90s nobody was fired

Don't forget that philips innovated the machines to produce microchips. Now that company is called ASML and it is the only company in the world who can develop and build these unbeliveable important and complex machines

Go woke and go broke

I love Philips brend, so many of Philips products in every store, I own few of them : Shaver, hair clipper, electric toothbrush, trimmer, old gramophone ....

One of my favourite memories of the 90s was our first ever coloured TV of Philips.

The ownes took profit over innovation!

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When it comes to design, the entire electronics industry follows Philips' design, which has over 80 years of legacy. They are indeed pioneers in design!
Philips invented the Compact Cassette in 1963. On March 8, 1979, a Compact Disc (CD) digital audio system prototype was presented at Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The first CD player was to be named 'Pinkeltje,' after a well-known friendly gnome from a Dutch children's story. Compact Disk was invented by Philips only; for other technical reasons, they came up with Sony. By the way, all blank media are proprietary to Philips, like CD, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW.
It is impossible to make TVs without Philips components; Philips is the inventor of the color TV picture tube! Philips sold the maximum number of TVs & VCRs in the world!
Sony’s owner used to visit the Netherlands to get inspired by Philips; he was dreaming of setting up his own company!

Some Philips facts:

 Philips produces over 2.4 billion incandescent lamps every year, and some 30 million picture tubes; and each day Philips’ factories turn out more than 50 million integrated circuits.

 Around 2.5 billion heart procedures on X-ray equipment are carried out each year using Philips technology.

 One in seven television picture tubes contains a Philips picture tube, and 60% of all telephones contain Philips products.

 Thirty percent of around the world are lit by Philips lighting, which also lights 65% of the world’s top airports, 55 % of soccer stadiums, and 30 % of hospitals.

 Over 50% of calls made worldwide involve Philips’ technology in the call.

 Five out of the world’s top ten PC manufacturers sell Philips monitors under their own brand name

 Philips spends over £25m worldwide every week on R&D, constantly creating new ideas.

 Total R&D efforts of Philips Electronics amount to approximately 6.7% of sales.

 1, 00,000 patent rights.

 22,000 trademark registrations.

 6,000 design rights.

 2 inventions per day!
 Philips leads in digital television, from inside the TV station to the living room.

 Philips leads in the color picture tube market.

 Philips is the world leader in the supply of integrated circuits for PC video captures and is a recognized technology leader in digital video processing.

 Philips is the world leader in the supply of one-chip TV circuits as well as integrated circuits for tuners in TVs and VCRs.

 Philips is the world leader in lighting.

 Philips produced a 100-millionth TV set in 1984 and 300-millionth Philishave electric shavers in 1995.

 As a technology-driven company, Philips attaches great importance to protecting its innovations by intellectual property rights (IPRs) to secure its investment in research & development. The company’s IPR portfolio currently includes about 70,000 patent rights, 22,000 trademark registrations, and some 6,000 design rights.

A Quick look at Philips’ background


 1891: Gerard Philips sets up a company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to manufacture incandescent lamps and other electrical products.

 1918: Philips introduces a medical X-ray tube.

 1925: The firm becomes involved in the first experiments in TV.

 1927: Begins manufacturing radios.

 1933: Commences building X-ray equipment in the US.

 1939: Introduces its first electric shaver.

 1969: Launches the audio compact cassette

 1983: Launches the compact disc.

 1984: Produces its 100-millionth TV set.

 1990: Launched compact disc interactive.

 1992: Launched digital compact cassette.

 1995: Finished its 300-millionth Philishave electric shaver.

 2001: Launches recordable DVD format, DVD+RW.

 2001: Selected as key supplier to provide DVD drives for Microsoft’s X-box console.

 2002: Launches the “Pixel Plus” technology.

 2003: Launches the “ LCOS TV”

Philips’ innovations in image quality were milestones in the industry.

1988: Philips brings the first 100Hz devices on the market in the conventional 4:3-format

1992: Digitally Scan, digitally Noise Reduction DNR and broad picture 16:9

1994: Black Stretch

1995: Natural Motion - EISA innovation price and EISA set OF the Year price

1996: Dynamic Contrast and car format

1999: Digitally Natural Motion - EISA set OF the Year - and Active control with photo sensor

2002: Pixel Plus

2003: LCoS TV( liquid crystal on silicon)

Philips’ History of innovation picture quality

1988: The first 100Hz set on the market.

1992 : 100Hz + Digital Scan (DS) + Dynamic Noise Reduction (DNR) + Wide screen.

1994 : 100Hz + DS + DNR + Black stretch.

1995 : 100Hz + DS + DNR + Black stretch + Natural motion.

1996 : 100Hz + DS + DNR + Dynamic control (DC) + Auto format.

1999 : 100Hz + DS + DNR + DC + Auto format + Digital Natural Motion (DNM) + Active control (AC).

2000: Introduction of Real Flat CRT

2002 : 100Hz + DS + DNR + DC + Auto format + DNM +AC + Pixel Plus.

2004 : Pixel Plus 2

Philips also owned the basic patents for Video Games via their acquisition of Magnavox in the 70s.

Its not management. Its leadership that failed Phillips

Inovation in you! 🤗

A great and an innovative company just going downhill with every passing down 😢

This is what happens when money people, ie. the MBAs take over a tech company. The same thing happened to AT&T Bell Labs, which later was turned into Lucent. Short sighted MBAs who are only interested in the next quarter destroy great, innovative companies for the sake of lining their own pockets with bonuses.

Philips wOOx I miss you 😢

Well they make shavers, now but still Philips is still on the personal care department, all they need is to acquire the defunct Daewoo Electronics from South Korea now known as Winia as Philips could get back in track in the electronics game, to say so many Western Electronics companies at the time looked for cheap labor in Taiwan and South Korea back in the 1970s and 1980s even Philips made some products in South Korea.

My name is igor belevich. I am 40 years old. I live in belarus. I am from belarus. I saw an analog sw,am-mw,fm radio receiver philips in internet. This radio receiver philips is sold may be on any web sites in belarus for about 139 belarussian roubles. I do not know how much it is in u.s.funds. but may be that sw,mw radio philips is made in china. But it is called:philips. It is famous,known,good brand. I like listening to foreign sw,mw radio stations in russian and in other languages. So it is sad news for me that philips is not doing well now,and may be it does not make good,original,cheap,sw,mw,lw radios any more. May be i will buy that sw,mw radio philips that i saw in internet in belarus. But the cost is too high for me.i also saw sw,mw radio receiver philips with a digital display for 199 belarussian roubles.but i am afraid that it will break soon. May be ,inside these radios philips there is a thread or string that turns tunning wheel and the thread or string will tear in two. I have analog sw,mw,fm radio sony icf 704 s,made in china,but instruction manual says measured by jeita japan. Sony is also brand,like philips. Unfortunately,most world brands stopped making analog sw,mw,lw radios.

WWW 2 killed so many great genius.

The apnea disaster will lead to bankruptcy. A good example of mismanagement. That's what you get when bean counters are in charge at Philips

My first decade was in the field of high speed instrumentation. But toward the 3rd decades of my career, I decided to switch
gear completely into consumer software products. I was doing something completely abhorrent to fellow engineers who
view consumer market to be beneath them. I took my company public 6 years later. None of my former contacts had a clue
of what i was doing. and it puzzles them to this day. I suspect Phillips was a victim of this kind of close minded thinking: hardware not software makes the company. Wrong.

Why all the words in the center of the screen, the bottom of the screen would be better, even for your visual impaired viewers

Well Philips and ASM started ASML in 1984. ASML is considered the most valuable company in the world. Not so tragic....

My father worked for Philips in Germany and he was saying that once the so called "managers" started leading the company evrything started to fall appart , everyone saw it coming except the "Managers" who where just there to feel their pockets take all the bonuses and kill everything Philips was standing for . Indeed sad story and example how modern Managers are killing companies and family traditions realying on charts and numbers and not facts and true knowlage for their own profit and welth .

Physical format is KING Phillips was predominant in this field,
I’m an American, even I want Western Europe to have a modern equivalent.

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Selling of Philips Semiconductors was a big mistake!

Project Management Office (PMO)
The virus was also in NXP, thanks to RC who kicked PMO out asa he took over in 2010-2011.

1. Sell 40% Share 2 Ikea
2. Make Products 4 Ikea
3. Invest on Sound Industry

Make Mono Speaker wit Hi Res Amp (Not USB Powered)
1. Book Shelf Speaker wit 1 Speaker
2. Sound Bar wit 2 Speaker
No need of Woofer & Twitter

Stop making Home Theater
No1 wants Big Bulky Xpensive Speaker
Not any more

The CDI-i simply lacked a killer app; one piece of software that would make the technology a necessity and virtually create a non-gamer market. Philips couldn't compete with Nintendo or Sony in games. Their marketing in general was rather muted because they produced such pioneering products that they had no competitors, and a product demonstration was enough to sell them without louding them up. Of course if the partnership deal hadn't scuppered, the royalties from all the console sales would've made Philips immune to flopping, and they could've persisted in the technology longer.

No mention of the Philips record label. It was a major player in classical, ethnic and European popular music for decades

Sounds like a financial restructuring

greetings from Eindhoven The Netherlands . Yes there is nothing left of the company. its a sad story

we tried to buy computer monitors in Canada but it looks like no way to find Philips Monitors. the Philips distributor/reseller tool does not work. we searched few online stores via google but they carry all low end monitors.

They were always an innovative and quality company. Like with other products the Far East caught up and overtook.

Philips is Philips

India's marketing of Philips is not good, that's why it is suffering again, even then it will work if it comes on its own.

I knew lots of the former products, I have a few here and I still use them. It's a pity it came that far. The proud Philips logo won't light again as it did before. But I think Europe is out of business for research at large scale just like it was once in.

They still make good electronic products like headphones,tvs, and electrical shavers. They need to integrate their electronics arm into the business again.

The Germans would have 'destroyed everything' if they had found Philips' secret R&D laboratories? Of course they wouldn't. They would have stolen all the blueprints and documents to see if they could make use of the technology in their war effort.

The Waffle House has found its New Host

I work in the Healthcare field as a Biomed ( repairing medical equipment). Philips is number one the medical equipment field and just moved away from consumer products.

Henk & Franz went wrong. Now Shez is killing the rest...

NXP, ASML, TSMC all Philips spinoffs..heck even Panasonic!!! was started with the Matsushita dude in the 1950's, Philips owned 35% of the deal for decades, all gone. Shadow mask CRT was biggest tv maker, biggest radio maker all gone, poof. LG Philips Display, was biggest LCD panel maker, Philips bailed now LG Display is the biggest OLED panel maker for others too...Philips starts and bails, why? It was the biggest PRIVATE Research operation in the world, bigger than Bell Labs, yupper, all gone..poof

Phillips will always be the best ever in everything they did if they would make a comeback they would be on top of the world 🌏 again

What happens to Philips happens to many companies now.
Like Volkswagen, Bayer, Shell, etc..
The hunger for growth of shareholder value only....
No longer making great products for happy people, primairily.
They are running to walls. Unbreakable. Because... their clients are those people that are unhappy now, or dead even.
Leading to extremely low shareholder value.
Dead end, u-turn !!

Yeah just sack the workers to boost their earnings who cates what all those unemployees who have families and cae payments etc knit it ok cause they made $8million in orofits

fascinating story indeed

Great video.