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 for a few years and then moved back to SLC.
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 current name of this division of Thomson. Grass Valley, a Thomson Brand is now 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 Head Quarters is in Weiterstadt, the former Bosch Fernseh - BTS factory. Parter Capital Group will continue to have world wide offices to support products from Weiterstadt, Germany. The new name of the company is Digital Film Technology.
Thomson -Grassvalley still operates offices in the cities of all the former acquisitions:
- Cergy, France (Thomson World Headquarters)
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - from TeleMation Inc. -Bell and Howell - BTS
- Beaverton, Oregon, USA - from Tektronix
- Nevada City, California, USA - from Grassvalley Group
- Breda, The Netherlands - from Philips - Norelco - BTS
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