Fernseh
A German Word
- Fernseh is the German word for television. It is short for "fernsehapparat." In German: "fern" meaning far, "seh" meaning see, and "apparat" meaning device.
Fernseh AG
The Fernseh AG Television company started in Berlin on June 21, 1929 by John Logie Baird, Robert Bosch and other partners. Fernseh AG's Board of directors: Emanuel Goldberg, Oliver George Hutchinson (for Baird), David Ludwig Loewe, and Erich Carl Rassbach (for Bosch) and Eberhard Falkenstein who did legal work. Along with early TV sets (DE-6, E1, DE10) Fernseh AG made the frist "Remote Truck" an "intermediate-film" mobile television camera (1930s). This was a film camera the had its film delevoped in the truck and a "telecine" transmitted the signal almost "live".
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1929 TV Set
Fernseh GmbH
- In 1939 Robert Bosch GmbH took complete ownership of Fernseh AG. as Zeiss Ikon sold his share of Fernseh AG.
- In 1952 Fernseh moves to Darmstadt, Germany and increase its Broadcast product line.
- In 1967 Fernseh color TV Products were introduced and manufactured. A full line of Fernseh video and film equipment were made: Professional video camera, VTRs and Telecine. Often called "Bosch Fernseh". GmbH is short for Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung.
Fernsehanlagen GmbH
In 1972 Robert Bosch renames its TV division: Fernsehanlagen GmbH. Alagen = ~ facilities in German. The company supplied almost all the studio equipment for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Fernseh Inc.
- In October of 1979 Bell and Howell's TeleMation Inc. Division located in Salt Lake City, UT entered a joint venture with Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch’s Fernseh Division. The new joint venture was call Fernseh Inc., Bosch Fernseh Division was located in Darmstadt, Germany
- In April of 1982 Bosch fully acquired Fernseh Inc. renameing it “Robert Bosch Corporation, Fernseh Division”
- In 1986 Bosch enter into a new joint venture with Philips Broadcast in Breda, Netherlands. This new Company was called Broadcast Television Systems or BTS inc. 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.
- In 1995 Philips Electronics North America Corp. fully acquired BTS Inc., renaming it Philips Broadcast-Philips Digital Video Systems.
- In March of 2001 this 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 Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Grass Valley (company), the current name of this division of Thomson. The Fernseh's Darmstadt factory, near the Darmstadt Train Station and European Space Operations Centre was moved a short distance to Weiterstadt, Germany.
Products
- Home Television (later moved to the Blaupunkt Division (1930- )
- Intermediate-film Remote Truck (1936)
- Filmgeber Film Chain F16LP15 Analog
- OMY Film Chain - Analog
- BCM-40 2 inch Quadruplex videotape 1970s
- Standards conversion (1970s) Analog
- BCN series 1 inch type B videotape (1979-1989) Analog VTR
- KC series Color Professional video camera KCU, KCR, KCK, KCK-R, KCP, KCA, KCF, KCM (1967-1990)
- MC series Video monitorMC-37, MC-50 MCH 51, MH 21
- OB Van - TV Remote Trucks - and Terminal Rack Equipment
- RME series Mixers - Vision mixer, Analog
- FDL-60 Telecine - The worlds first CCD telecine (1979-1989)
- FRP-60 Color Corrector-Color grading (1983-1989)
- FDL-90 Telecine (1989-1993) (now under BTS)
- Noise/Grain Reducer: FDGR, DNR7, MNR9, MNR10, MNR11, VS4, Scream, Scream 4k
- Quadra 4:4:4 Telecine (1993-1998)
- KCA-110 ENG Camera
- KCF-1 ENG Camera (later Quartercam, not sold)
- CCIR 601 Products CD7, DC7, 4X4 Booster, Test Gen. Encoders, Decoders.
- DD series CCIR 601-D1 Mixers - Vision mixer DD5, DD10, DD20, DD30
- DCR series D1 VTR DCR-100 DCR-300 DCR-500
- BCH 1000 HDTV 1" VTR
- KCH 1000 HDTV camera (RMH 1000)
- FLH 1000 Telecine The worlds first HDTV CCD Telecine (1994-1996)
- D6 HDTV VTR Uncompressed HDTV VTR (VooDoo)-(Gigabit Data Recorder (2000-2006) (Now under Philips)
- Spirit Datacine HDTV Telecine SDC-2000 (1996-2006) also: SDC2001, SDC2002
- Phantom Transfer Engine Software for Spirit Datacine Telecine for Virtual telecine(1998-)
- Shadow HDTV Telecine STE (2000-2006)
- VDC-2000 Specter Virtual telecine (1999-2002)
- Specter FS Virtual telecine (2002-2006)
- Spirit 4k Datacine - Telecine (2004- ) also Spririt 2k (now Under Thomson-Grassvalley)
- Bones Linux-Based Software for Spirit Datacine Telecine Transfer Engine Software (2005- )
- LUTher 3D LUT Color Space (2005- )
Also See
External links
- - History of Bosch Fernseh
- [1] - Bosch.com History
- [2] - Film Products
- [3] - Early Fernseh TV set
- [4]- Early Camera
- - BCN Pictures
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