Magnavox

Magnavox (Latin for "loud voice") is a consumer electronics company that is now part of Philips Consumer Electronics. The Magnavox Company was founded in 1917 with the introduction of the first loudspeaker which Edwin Pridham and Peter Jensen invented in 1915 and gave it the Magnavox name. With the introduction of the Odyssey in 1972, Magnavox began the home video game console market. Philips bought Magnavox in 1974.

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Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

Consumer electronics: Consumer electronics is electronic equipment intended for use by everyday people. Consumer electronics usually find applications in entertainment, communications and office productivity....

Philips Consumer Electronics: Philips Consumer Electronics is a part of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (usually known as Philips); and is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. In 2005, its sales were ? 30.4 billion (US$38.9 billion) and it employed 161,500 people in more than 60 countries. Other Philips di...