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Just around the size of a hot dog bun, this versatile MP3 player has speakers making it ideal for use at the park, at home, in dorm rooms, and for travelers (based on its multiple functions: MP3 player to listen en-route and alarm clock to wake you up in the hotel to your favorite music or FM radio station via the built in tuner). The ShoqBox (Model#PSS110) holds 60 MP3 music tracks (approximately 4 hours of music) making this little music maven a great source of entertainment for tailgating and outdoor get-togethers, too. The XSL speakers give a big sound, however, there is also a headphone jack for personal listening. Plug your laptop into the ShoqBox for killer sounding PowerPoint presentations. MSRP: $149 www.philips.com

January 27, 2005 — Denon Electronics, one of the world’s premier manufacturers of high-quality home entertainment products, today announced that its proprietary Denon Link digital interface has been approved for transmission of Super Audio CD (SACD) signals by Sony and Philips, developers of the SACD format, under the new and upcoming SACD 2.0 specification. Sony and Philips will release an update to the current SACD 1.3 specification, approving the DENON Link digital interface. The acceptance and support of Denon Link by Sony and Philips marks a significant step forward in bringing the finest digital audio entertainment to today’s most discriminating consumers in the easiest, most elegant manner possible. Products in accordance with the updated specification will be available in the near future.

October 20, 2004– Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) today announced that the Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator is now available over-the-counter (OTC) to consumers at Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), the largest online retailer to offer the product. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently cleared the HeartStart Home Defibrillator for sale without a prescription, making it the first and only defibrillator to obtain OTC status. As a leading online retailer with access to tens of millions of active customer accounts, Amazon.com will play an important role in making the HeartStart Home Defibrillator more easily available to consumers for home use, where the majority of cardiac arrests occur.

The Philips Senseo is a pod based coffee maker. The fact that it makes two cups at a time cuts down on the waiting period associated with other pod based machines that only make one. The Senseo’s most unique taste feature is that it gives a rich, frothy coffee layer with every cup. Though new in the US, Senseo has sold over 5 million units in Europe. Philips has teamed up with Douwe Egberts (a division of Sara Lee) to exclusively provide the gourmet blend coffee pods. Pods are available four taste varieties: Mild roast, Medium roast, Dark roast and Decaf. The Senseo comes in three colors: Cobalt Blue, White, and Black. ($70; www.senseo.com)

July 2004 -- Philips Electronics recently announced that it has started shipments of its new 16x DVD writer to main PC manufacturers who will integrate the drives as standard in their new PC systems over coming season. As the first DVD writer manufacturer to ship 8x drives to PC OEMs last September, Philips again leads the competition with the first shipments of its 16x DVD writer with double layer (DVD+R DL) write capability. Philips expects 16x DVD writers to become mainstream for PC systems by the end of 2004 and plans to have productions volume at 600 k units/month in anticipation of the expected increase in market demand.Read more

Why would anyone want to shackle themselves to their computers? Wouldn't it be great if your computer monitor were light enough to carry the information it displayed across the room? Wouldn't it be great to be able to take your information to people, rather than have to wait for them to come to you? Read more

With DVD and HDTV consumers have more choices than ever before when it comes to home theater. But there are a lot of technological advances out there that make home theater much more simple to deal with. For example, remote controls. Everybody has more remote controls than they want on their coffee table. That's why companies like Philips are now doing technologically advanced multi-remote controls. The big daddy of them all is the iPronto. Read more

Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Further setting the pace in the large-area thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs) space, LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. today unveiled its latest TFT-LCD offering for HDTVs, the 52W, a 52-inch wide-screen model. The largest TFT-LCD to ever be demonstrated, the 52W has a superior resolution of 1920 x 1080, featuring 2.07 million pixels -- more than seven times a standard definition (SD) television and twice as many as that found in many HDTVs -- ultimately delivering the best image available for TFT-LCDs. Leveraging the company's Super-In-Plane-Switching (S-IPS) technology, the 52W also boasts the world's widest viewing angle (176 degrees), with a minimum of color shift and incorporates a modern, "wide" aspect ratio of 16:9.Read more

Philips Electronics new iPronto universal remote takes home control to a higher level by combining hardware and software in one easy-to-manage device. Using the light and portable iPronto, you can control home theater components, lighting, security cameras, home networks, climate control and other IR/RF/Ethernet home applications. The iPronto’s design allows for easy operation with a high-resolution touch screen LCD, exterior hard buttons and a customizable user interface providing you with the flexibility to control multiple windows of information with simple dashboard finger navigation.Read more

Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Philips Electronics continues to revolutionize control of the digital home with the combination of audio/video, home automation, and home network control with the new iPronto introduced today at the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) Show. Specializing in media access and control, the iPronto combines hardware and software into one easy-to-manage device that offers consumers a new platform for the connected home. The lightweight and highly portable iPronto allows users to control home theater components, lighting, security cameras, home networks, climate control and other IR/RF/Ethernet home applications. Users can easily control devices through the high-resolution touch screen LCD, combined with a customizable user interface and exterior hard buttons. Read more