[jacquesm]

Same here, every Philips device bought after the mid 90's was junk. At some point they even couldn't make vacuum cleaners that worked or fridges that didn't fail completely within the warranty. Which is also why plenty of the bigbox outlets stopped offering their stuff, the quality was just incredibly bad.

And given how much goodwill that brand had it is very impressive how fast it was run into the ground. I still see their TVs for sale here, and medical devices and some stuff for infants.

[scns]

Interesting, the vacuum cleaner of my parents is a Philips and itworks well. No smell in the air while running, the first time i don't hate using one.

[wojciii]

I still have a Phillips vacuum cleaner. It's 10 years or more. Impressive build quality.