an example mah: the tv was invented by some American... right?
(well, not one from Japan)
and now those guys are reproducing it and getting it smaller and better, they didn't invent the tv, nor the phone, NOR the robots (blast those American scientists!)
no, if you go that far back in time you might be right. but when some new electronic devices is invented nowadays, it's almost everytime from the japaneses.
I know the Dutch company Philips invent a lot of stuff, very innovative stuff. But since they suck big time at marketing, the Japanese usually take the market.
Yep, it's Dutch. VERY Dutch. I always think it's quite strange that no one abroad knows that. But then, communication is not their strongest point. It took them ten years to start telling the world they were the ones that invented CD. Go figure.
Philips is more than 100 years old, it was founded in the city of Eindhoven. They moved the international head office two years ago from Eindhoven to Amsterdam.
I think they are. They only good thing they make is light bulbs and tv's, which boils down to the same thing really.
Almost everything I ever bought of Philips breaks down right after the warranty has expired. That's why I RARELY buy something of Philips and when I do after several years thinking that they may have changed, it happens again....
But they do have good inventors. Weird people though, they were brown pants, sandals, white shirts with pocket protectors, they have long beards and they wear glasses. I once worked on a miniaturisation exposition in one of the buildings in Eindhoven, and as I walked down those halls where all these inventors worked, they looked up from their open computers as I passed. They looked at me as if I was some sort of alien: what's that? It looks human, a creature from the outside!!!!
I bought a Philips TV last week, I like it, you have automatic picture and sound settings that change automatically to match programs you are watching, Sports/Movies/Music and personal. The sound also changes to Theater/Music/Voice and personal. It also has component video outputs, so I ge the best picture possible with the DVD. If It breaks, I'll just curse the Dutch
Philips used to be the same as quality, but with Phillips like other electronic produsers, they are now manufactured in former east block countries. If you want quality you have to pay a bit more. Dont fall for the cheap eastern europe manufactured crap. Get the real stuff.
My DVD manual says that component is the least good alternative, s-video the next best, and scart the best. also a DVD magazine I read writes that you should avoid component. but maybe I'm wrong!
No, you probably have component confused with composite.
Composite video is the regular Audio/Video jacks
then came S-video which was a vast improvemnet over composite video
Now they have component video, which is the best you can get. It's only available on new DVD's and TV"s that are digital ready.
Yup, those are the ones, then you just plug in the Red & White audio cables, leave the yellow one out, and your ready to go. If your really special, you can hook up your sound via the optical audio output! But I'm not that special
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Jan 2nd, 2002 10:52 AM
That's why I RARELY buy something of Philips and when I do after several years thinking that they may have changed, it happens again.... 
