Technology and the Internet
It’s almost an article of faith in the electronics world these days that two largely separate industries--computers and consumer electronics--are rapidly becoming one.
June 1, 1992
Bit Player
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Jan. 6, 2008
Business
Two years after Philips Electronics NV set it up to vault onto the information superhighway, Philips Media has built up a 300-title library and the potential to be a major multimedia player, President Scott Marden said.
May 23, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
Technology: Move breaks ranks with other electronics giants in consortium and could delay or derail launch of DVD.
Aug. 3, 1996
Philips Electronics announced that it has formed a $5-billion preferred supplier deal to build components for Dell Computer Corp., the world’s top computer maker, giving a boost to the Dutch company’s flagging cathode-ray monitor business.
April 1, 2002
In what almost seems analogous to the start of the Paris peace talks in the entertainment technology business, the two competing sides developing digital videodisc machines acknowledged Thursday that they are finally in discussions about creating a single format.
Aug. 25, 1995
Setting the stage for a major battle over the next generation of tape recording equipment, Philips Consumer Electronics Co. publicly demonstrated its digital compact cassette at the Consumer Electronics show here this week and disclosed that a major Japanese hardware company will support the new system.
Jan. 11, 1991
Nintendo Ltd. apparently made a rare strategic error last year when it agreed to work with Sony Corp. in developing a new generation of video game technology.
June 4, 1991
A quarter of a century ago, when audio buffs were still fawning over vinyl and videocassettes were but a twinkle in a movie mogul’s eye, David Gregg left his engineering job to work on a futuristic vision: a plastic disc that could hold both sound and video, to be read not by a needle or a magnet, but by a beam of light.
Sept. 7, 1994
Dutch electronics maker N. V.
Oct. 10, 1991