Philips Celebrates 1 Billionth Milestone

Philips has now produced 1 billion remote controls since manufacturing commenced in 1991.
The timing of this major milestone coincides with the company's participation at this year's IBC show in Amsterdam. This achievement underscores Philips' leadership position in remote control production for OEM customers worldwide.
Philips has pioneered remote control technology, having played a key role in the development of industry standards such as RC5, RC6, RCMM and recently ZigBeeRF4CE, providing for an extensive portfolio of features and solutions that improve the performance, ease-of-use and functionality of remote controls.
Over the years, Home Control has expanded to provide both standard and customised wireless input and control solutions for major electronics manufacturers worldwide.
In the past the lack of an RF industry standard proved to be a real barrier for adoption in mainstream remote control applications. This has all changed with the development of ZigBeeRF4CE. ZigBeeRF4CE is the first open RF remote control standard for audio video consumer electronics, based on 802.15.4 technology. The standard enables low cost bi-directional RF remote control applications, low power consumption and increased design flexibility for your products.
As one of its founding members, Philips brought deep market and application knowledge combined with technology experience into the RF4CE consortium. Being a co-founder of this major breakthrough technology ensures that Philips is the perfect partner to guide OEM's when deciding to switch to RF.
Commenting on reaching the 1 billionth milestone, Jean-Paul Abrams, General Manager OEM business, Philips Home Control said: "We are delighted to announce our outstanding capabilities in the development and manufacturing of control devices at IBC and to showcase our latest products and world-class technological expertise. It is also the ideal opportunity to present our achievements to many of our valued customers who are leaders in the broadcast industry. Thanks to them, we were able to reach this milestone of 1 billion remotes."
Philips are located at IBC in Hall 1, booth A81.
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