Philips Electronics Connects Consumers to the Future This Holiday Season with Stylish and Innovative Gift Ideas

Offering consumers a glimpse into the future, Philips Electronics displayed the latest technologies and trends of tomorrow with its complete line of holiday gift ideas at the 2003 Holidays in June/Consumer Electronics Line Show event. Showcased in an experiential and futuristic environment of music, style and electronics, Philips' annual event featured innovative and forward-thinking gift solutions that spanned across all product lines, including audio, video, television, business solutions, lighting, medical, personal care and kitchen appliances.
Providing a sneak peak to holiday gift ideas, Philips showcased a variety of innovative technologies and sleek products that allow consumers to connect their homes and provide extraordinary experiences that enhance their lives.

Philips Lifestyle - Experience Better Together

Focusing on the home, Philips lifestyle products provide consumers easy access to innovative and useful digital technology that enhances daily activities. From the kitchen to the home theater room, Philips offers home entertainment and portable products that provide consumers with unique and stylish ways to start their day, watch their favorite DVD and listen to the hottest band.
Warm up this holiday season with convenient, easy ways to prepare traditional comfort foods. Start the day off right with a steamy mug of tea made in Philips' Cordless Kettle. And, after a long day of shopping and errands, the Philips' 3-in-1 Waffle/Sandwich/Grill can help whip together tasty treats from Belgian Waffles to grilled cheese sandwiches, for a delicious quick meal that is guaranteed to satisfy the whole family. Philips has a full family of beautifully designed kitchen appliances available at Target stores nationwide for this holiday season.

Philips' complete television line offers consumers a variety of innovative entertainment solutions. Philips' proprietary technology, Pixel Plus, has taken consumers and critics by storm. With Pixel Plus, the televisions are HD ready and provide HD quality images from any conventional source like VCR or DVD. Pixel Plus is now available in an extended line of products including the new Cineos televisions and the new FTR9965 e-box for the FlatTVs.

Cineos is Philips first venture into the micro-display market and one within which the company expects to create substantial ownership. These slim, lightweight table top televisions produce unbelievable picture quality thanks to Philips single panel LCoS technology. In addition, the new 17-, 23- and 30-inch widescreen FlatTV(TM) LCDs will be launched later this year and join the widest selection of FlatTVs available from any one manufacturer.

Offering consumers the latest technological solutions in small sophisticated designs, Philips new line of Infotainment devices brings a completely new level of style and sophistication to portable electronics. The new HDD100 features 15GB (more than 3000 songs) of capacity. Featuring MP3 and WMA playback, the Audio Jukebox includes Philips' patented SuperScroll(TM) providing fast and precise navigation. Philips also allows consumers to connect their living room with the rest of the world with Philips Streamium MC-i250 Wireless Internet Audio system. With the touch of a button and a broadband Internet connection, users can access radio stations and multiple online music services around the world.

To capture all the cherished holiday moments, the DVDR80 provides consumers the ultimate in DVD Recording with high quality picture and sound performance, as well as ease-of-use. Point and click programming through an on-screen TV guide allows the consumer to never miss another of their favorite TV programs.

For the ultimate in personalization, the fully programmable iPronto provides a versatile solution to control home theater, as well as the increasing number of electronic home automation products available. The iPronto gives the consumer the ability to configure the touch screen with the help of iPronto edit, the included PC editing software.

Providing consumers with full control of their holiday programming, including pausing live TV, rewinding, watching in slow motion or creating instant replays, the Philips DSR708 DIRECTV(R) DVR powered by TiVo, allows consumers to combine access to more than 225 digital-quality channels of DIRECTV(R) programming with the convenience and control of the DIRECTV DVR.