Broadcast Television Systems Inc.

Broadcast Television Systems 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 SLC. Also in 1991, BTS Latin America headed by Mario Castellanos 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 call 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. 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. New headquarters is in Weiterstadt, 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.

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:

  • EL-8020 B&W Studio 5 fixed lens
  • LDK2 1970s Norelco
  • LDH10 Norelco
  • LDH20 Norelco
  • LDH-0200 Studio Norelco
  • LDK3 Studio PC-80 Norelco
  • LDK4800 ? Triax repeter ? Camera ?
  • LDK5 1971 Studio 3 tubes Philips
  • LDK6 1982 Studio 3 tubes Norelco/BTS
  • LDK9P BTS CCD 1993 HandHeld
  • LDK10 BTS DPM CCD 1994
  • LDK10P BTS DPM CCD 1994
  • LDK11 1976 ENG Backpack Norelco
  • LDK12 ENG
  • LDK13 1971 ENG Backpack Norelco
  • LDK14 1977 ENG 3 tubes Philips[9]
  • LDK15 1974? ENG Norelco[9]
  • LDK20 ~1997 BTS CCD
  • LDK23HS BTS CCD Super slow mo
  • LDK25 Studio
  • LDK26 1982 Studio
  • LDK33 Early Handheld
  • LDK44 1984 Studio/ENG 3 tubes
  • LDK54 Handheld 3 tubes
  • LDK63
  • LDK65
  • LDK90 1987 BTS CCD HandHeld
  • LDK91 BTS CCD HandHeld
  • LDK93 BTS CCD HandHeld
  • LDK491 ENG Philips DIODE GUN PLUMBICONS

  • LDK614 LDK6 handheld
  • LDK700 BTS CCD
  • LDK910 BTS CCD Studio
  • LDK9000 BTS CCD HDTV
  • LDM42 B&W 1968 Studio
  • LDM53 B&W Studio
  • PC60 1965 Studio 3 tubes Norelco
  • PC70 1967 Studio 3 tubes Norelco
  • PC80 Studio Norelco LDK3
  • PC100 Studio Norelco
  • PCP70 Handheld Norelco
  • PCP90 1968 Handheld Norelco
  • VIDEO 80 Handheld

Current:

Philips early VTRs:

Awards


See also

References

  1. ↑ Videography, Thomson Sells Thomson Grass Valley Digital Film Transfer Equipment Business - Published in 2008
  2. ↑ Parter Capital Group web site
  3. ↑ Prasad Corp, web site
  4. ↑ DFT Press Release, Weiterstadt, Germany – October 1, 2012
  5. ↑ "Thomson to Sell Grass Valley". TV Technology. January 29, 2009. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  6. ↑ "Francisco Partners Completes Acquisition of Grass Valley". tvtechnology.com. January 3, 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
  7. ↑ GV world wide offices.
  8. ↑ grassvalley.com belden
  9. 1 2 Archive photos H02
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