Broadcast Television Systems Inc.

Broadcast Television Systems (BTS) was a joint venture between Robert Bosch GmbH's Fernseh Division and Philips Broadcast in Breda, Netherlands, formed in 1986.

History

Philips had been in the broadcast market for many years with a line of PC- and LDK- Norelco professional 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 1995 Philips Electronics North America Corp. fully acquired BTS Inc., renaming it Philips Broadcast-Philips Digital Video Systems. The BTS Inc.'s Darmstadt factory in Germany was near the Darmstadt Train Station and European Space Operations Centre this was later moved a short distance to Weiterstadt, Germany.

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]

Products

See:

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.

Philips-BTS product from Breda, Netherlands, professional video camera products:

Current:

  • LDK 300 CCD Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 400 CCD Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 500 CCD Thomson Grassvalley 2003
  • LDK23HS Mk2 CCD Super slow mo Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 5000 CCD Thomson Grassvalley
  • TTV 1657D CCD Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 20S CCD Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 1707 CCD Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 4000 CCD HDTV Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 5000 CCD HDTV Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 6000 CCD HDTV Thomson Grassvalley
  • LDK 6200 CCD HDTV Super SloMo
  • LDK 8000 CCD HDTV/SDTV

Philips early VTRs:

Awards

  • Outstanding Achievement in Technical/Engineering Development Awards from National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
    • 1966-1967 PLUMBICON TUBE - N.V. Philips -Breda
    • 1987-1988 FGS 4000 computer animation system CGI- BTS -SLC, UT
    • 1991-1992 Triaxial cable Technology for Color Television Cameras -N.V. Philips -Breda
    • 1992-1993 Prism Technology for Color Television Cameras -N.V. Philips -Breda
    • 1993-1994 Controlled Edge Enhancement Utilizing Skin Hue KeyingBTS and Ikegami (Joint Award) -Breda
    • 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.
  • BTS -Philips LDK 10
    BTS -Philips LDK 10
  • BTS -Philips LDK 10 from rear
    BTS -Philips LDK 10 from rear
  • BCH-1000 HDTV Type B VTR
    BCH-1000 HDTV Type B VTR
  • Quadra Telecine Film Deck
    Quadra Telecine Film Deck
  • Early SDC-2000 Spirit DataCine was made by BTS
    Early SDC-2000 Spirit DataCine was made by BTS
  • BTS D1 VTR DCR500
    BTS D1 VTR DCR500

See also

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ Parter Capital Group web site
  3. ^ Prasad Corp, web site
  4. ^ "DFT Press Release, Weiterstadt, Germany – October 1, 2012". Archived from the original on 2013-08-31. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
  5. ^ "Thomson to Sell Grass Valley". TV Technology. January 29, 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  6. ^ "Francisco Partners Completes Acquisition of Grass Valley". tvtechnology.com. January 3, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
  7. ^ GV world wide offices.
  8. ^ "grassvalley.com belden". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  9. ^ a b Archive photos H02
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