Philips had been in the broadcast market for many years with a line of PC- and LDK- Norelcoprofessional video cameras and other video products. By the 1980s, the Norelco name was dropped in favour of Philips. Robert Bosch GmbH's Fernseh Division also had a long history going back to the early days of television (1929).
BTS's North America headquarters was at first located in Salt Lake City, Utah. This was later moved to Simi Valley, California, in 1991, later returning to Salt Lake City. Also in 1991, BTS Latin America entered into an agreement to provide Televisa SA of Mexico what was believed to be until that time, the largest equipment sale in history.
In March 2001, Philips' broadcast video division was sold to Thomson SA, the current owner; the division was called Thomson Multimedia. In 2002, the French electronics giant Thomson SA also acquired the Grass Valley Group from Terry Gooding of San Diego, CA, USA. Grass Valley, Inc., the Thomson, Grass Valley, a Thomson Brand is headquartered in Nevada City, California.
The Thomson Film Division, located in Weiterstadt, including the product line of Spirit DataCine, Bones Work station and LUTher 3D Color Space converter, was sold to Parter Capital Group. The sale was made public on Sept. 9, 2008 and completed on Dec. 1, 2008. The new headquarters is in Weiterstadt, in the former Bosch Fernseh - BTS factory. Parter Capital Group will continue to have worldwide offices to support products from Weiterstadt, Germany.[1][2] The new name of the company is Digital Film Technology. On October 1, 2012, Precision Mechatronics and DFT were acquired by Prasad Corp, part of Prasad Studios.[3][4] In 2013 DFT moved from Weiterstadt to Arheilgen-Darmstadt, Germany.
Grass Valley operated offices in the cities of all the former acquisitions:
After the financial crisis of 2008, Thomson became upside-down in its financial covenants and was forced by its creditors to divest itself of Grass Valley and other manufacturing entities. On January 29, 2009, Thomson announced that they were putting the Grass Valley division up for sale.[5]
In 2010, the Grass Valley business unit, not including the head-end and transmission businesses, was acquired by private equity firm Francisco Partners and resumed operating as an independent company on January 1, 2011.[6] Grass Valley still maintains offices worldwide.[7]
Grass Valley was sold to Belden on February 6, 2014, Belden also owns Miranda.[8]
Philips invented the plumbicon pick up video camera tube in 1965; almost all of their color cameras used this award-winning tube. Starting with the LDK 90 camera, Philips used their Frame transfer CCD - Charge-coupled device. Philips' patented Dynamic Pixel Management (DPM) FT-17 CCD technology won awards and was first used in the 1994 LDK10 and LDK10p camera.
1997-1998 Development of a High Resolution Digital Film Scanner Eastman Kodak and Philips Germany. See Spirit DataCine
2000-2001 Pioneering developments in shared video-data storage systems for use in television video servers - BTS/Philips/Thomson/ - SLC, UT
2002-2003 Technology to simultaneously encode multiple video qualities and the corresponding metadata to enable real-time conformance and / or playout of the higher quality video (nominally broadcast) based on the decisions made using the lower quality proxies Montage. Philips and Thomson.
^"Videography, Thomson Sells Thomson Grass Valley Digital Film Transfer Equipment Business - Published in 2008". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^"DFT Press Release, Weiterstadt, Germany – October 1, 2012". Archived from the original on 2013-08-31. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
^"Thomson to Sell Grass Valley". TV Technology. January 29, 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
^"Francisco Partners Completes Acquisition of Grass Valley". tvtechnology.com. January 3, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
thefreelibrary.com On BTS, ABC'S KGO-TV Picks BTS Video Server to Go All Digital; Also Pilot Program For ABC-OWNED Stations
patentmaps.com BTS Patents
electronics.zibb.com BTS Trademarks
business.highbeam.com BC plans playback for disk-based server; its San Francisco O&O also plots Media Pool project. (owned-and-operated television station; BTS Broadcast Television Systems Inc. Media Pool server), Article from: Broadcasting & Cable | May 15, 1995 | McConnell, Chris
business.highbeam.com New cable networks going digital. (includes related article on Game Show Network) Article from: Broadcasting & Cable | January 9, 1995 | McConnell, Chris
business.highbeam.com Media Pool tests the tapeless waters. (BTS digital disk-based recorder), Article from: Broadcasting & Cable | July 18, 1994 | McConnell, Chris
allbusiness.com KGO-TV picks BTS' Media Pool Video Server to provide all-digital system of the future. Las Vegas, Nev.--(Business Wire)--April 11, 1995—KGO-TV,
smpte.org 138th SMPTE Technical Conference Technical Papers Program, October 10–11, 1996, Los Angeles, Calif., Media Pool — Flexible Video Server Design for Television Broadcasting, by Charlie Bernstein1
patentstorm.us[permanent dead link] BTS, System and method for enabling a data/video server]
trademarks.justia.com Compositor I - Trademark Details
trademarkia.com Compositor I By: BTS-Broadcast Television Systems, Inc.
emmyonline.tv National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Outstanding Achievement in Technical/Engineering Development Awards, BTS Broadcast Television Systems, Inc. To BTS in recognition of their engineering contribution in 3D computer graphic technology and for development of the FGS 4000 computer animation system.
trademarks.justia.com MACH ONE - Trademark Details.
trademarkia.com MACH ONE By: BTS-Broadcast Television Systems, Inc.
The History of Television, 1942 to 2000, By Albert Abramson, Christopher H. Sterling, Page 304]
trademarkia.com PIXELERATOR, By: BTS-Broadcast Television Systems, Inc., High-Speed Rendering Computer Processor For Use In Computer Graphics Application.
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