Editing Philips Records (section)

==Compact disc era==
In 1983, Philips became one of the first record labels to issue [[compact discs]] using [[digital recording]]s that had been made since 1978.<ref>The first digital recordings, however, were actually remastered versions of vintage recordings by the legendary tenor [[Enrico Caruso]], using the [[Soundstream]] process developed in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]] in 1975–76. [[RCA Victor]] released vinyl versions of these reprocessed, historic recordings. Philips was among the record labels to use the Soundstream process for modern digital recordings.</ref>

Philips and its subsidiaries eventually re-issued many of its pre-digital stereo and mono recordings on compact disc. Philips and DuPont partnered in four CD manufacturing plants in Hanover, Germany; Blackburn in the UK (formerly the Philips Laservision Disc factory); Kings Mountain in North Carolina, and Louviers in France. By the mid-1990s, PolyGram Classics handled the classical labels (Philips, Mercury, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon) and [[Verve Records|Verve Music Group]] handled the jazz back catalogue (from Verve, Mercury, etc.) and new jazz releases. Island Records absorbed Mercury in 2014 and in doing so, Island has continued to manage the Philips pop back catalogue to this day.

Philips Records has been part of [[Universal Music]] since 1998, the name continuing to be licensed from the label's former parent company. In 1999, Philips Classics was absorbed into the [[Decca Records|Decca Music Group]], and Philips recording and mastering operations in the Netherlands were shut down. Former employees bought the Philips Recording Center in Baarn, Netherlands, and formed Polyhymnia International (a recording and mastering company) and [[Pentatone (record label)|Pentatone]] Records (which specializes in [[Super Audio CD|SACD]] releases).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pentatonemusic.com/index1.htm?pagsalg/about.htm~rechts |title=Pentatone Classics |publisher=Pentatonemusic.com |access-date=28 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317115547/http://www.pentatonemusic.com/index1.htm?pagsalg%2Fabout.htm~rechts |archive-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Many of the Philips classical recordings have been reissued on the Eloquence label. Universal also released a "Philips 50" series marking the 50th anniversary of Philips Records in the early 2000s; some of those CDs are still in print. Pentatone has released Philips [[Quadraphonic sound]] recordings from the early and mid-1970s in 4-channel SACD format, as their RQR Series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pentatonemusic.com/index1.htm?pagsalg/rqrintro1.html~rechts |title=Pentatone Classics |publisher=Pentatonemusic.com |access-date=28 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317115550/http://www.pentatonemusic.com/index1.htm?pagsalg%2Frqrintro1.html~rechts |archive-date=17 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Philips' classical catalog was issued on CD under the headings ''Digital Classics'', ''Legendary Classics'' and ''Silver Line Classics.'' Many of these titles have been reissued on the Decca label.