With production facilities in both Europe as well as Asia, Philips is able to offer consistent high quality thanks to the many years of experience in this specific field of the lighting industry. To convince consumers that it's better (both for performance as well as safety) to use original lamps instead of compatible (copy) lamps, KEMA was asked to do an independent technical benchmark study. The key findings are explained below.

During the examination lamps which are available in the aftermarket for Rear Projection TVs of different manufacturers were compared with the original Philips lamps.

TV projection lamps were tested on two Rear Projection Television sets, one made by Samsung and based on DLP™ technology and one made by Sony and based on LCD technology. On the DLP™ TV set, Philips lamps offered on average 54% higher luminance compared to the alternative lamps. For the LDC TV set, the Philips lamps offered on average 218% higher luminance than the lamps from other manufacturers.