TeleMation Inc.

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TeleMation Inc was a company specializing in products for the post production and Film industry. Was Located in Salt Lake City, UT. TeleMation started with a line of B&W video equipment and later manufactured Color Video Products. Lyle Keys was the founder and President of TeleMation, Inc. Early equipment was for the B&W broadcast, cable, and CCTV market.


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[edit] History

  • In 1977 TeleMation inc. was and became a Division of Bell and Howell.
  • In October of 1979 Bell and Howell 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 and for many years manufactured a full line of Video and Film equipment, Professional video camera, VTR and Telecine, under Robert Bosch Fernsehanlagen GmbH.
  • 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, The Netherlands. This new Company was called Broadcast Television Systems or BTS inc. Philips had been in the Broadcast market of many years with a line of Norelco Professional video camera and other 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.

[edit] Products

  • Some Telemation B&W Video:
  • TSE-200 Special Effects Generator
  • TPC-100 Porta-Studio
  • TMV-529 Waveform Sampler
  • TMV-708 Camera Control Unit
  • TPC-100 Porta-Studio
  • TMV-529 Waveform Sampler
  • TMC 2100 Camera
  • TVM-650 Multicaster Switcher
  • TMM-203 Film Chain-Multiplexer - Film Island
  • TMU-100 Uniplexers
  • TVM-550 video distribution amplifier
  • TPA-550 Pulse distribution amplifier
  • A line of Character Generators
  • Automation Equipment. Like the BCS 2000
  • Digital Noise Reducer, also call Digital Noise Filter, 1984
  • TVU-175 VENTILATION Unit
  • Some Color Products: (Made in Salt Lake City under various brands)
  • TVS-1000 TAS-1000 Routers and line of party line Control panels
    • Phone remote Router control inferface
  • MCS 2000 Master Control Switch
  • MC Machine Control
  • Digital Noise Reducer, also call Digital Noise Filter 1984.
  • TSG-550 Sync Generator
  • Tmt-101 Stairstep Generator
  • Tmt-102 Multiburst Generator
  • Tmt-103 Sin Pulse/Window Generator
  • Compositor Character Generators
  • Digital Encoder Pal and NTSC
  • Mach One Editor -(acquired)
  • Alamar Automation -(acquired)
  • TVS-2000 Routers and line of party line Control panels with and w/o mnemonic displays.
  • CE 2200 party line Controller, CE 2500
  • Status Display
  • TVS-3000 Routers
  • Venus Router
  • BCS 3000 HP UNIX Based controller - VG 3000 VGS card
  • Jupiter Controller - Windows Based
    • VM 3000 VGA Status Display, V board
    • SC 3000 Serial Control Interface S board
    • CE 3000 Matrix Controller, M board – Can support 3 level switching and other brands.
    • ES 3000 ESnet Interface
    • PL 3000 party line Controller
    • SI 3000 Control Processor
  • Jupiter Control panels: CP 3200, CP 3300, CP 3310, CP 3320
  • Jupiter XPress, CM4000
  • Trinix router, DM–33100
  • Saturn Master Control Switch
  • Mars
  • SDR–400
  • GS–400
  • FGS 4000 3D Character – Graphic Generator
  • Vidifont Graphic Generator - (acquired)
  • The Media Pool - Disk Recorder

[edit] Trivia

Fernseh is German for Television. In German the words "fern" and "seh" literally mean far and see.

Because of all the mergers customers sometimes fondly called these company(ies): Tele-bella-bosch-a-mation.

Thomson still operates offices in the cities of all these acquisitions (see History):


Awards:

  • Outstanding Achievement in Technical/Engineering Development Awards from NATIONAL ACADEMEY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES.
    • 1966-1967 PLUMBICON TUBE - N.V. Philips
    • 1987-1888 FGS 4000 computer animation system - BTS -SLC, UT
    • 1992-1993 Prism Technology for Color Television Cameras -N.V. Philips
    • 1993-1994 Controlled Edge Enhancement Utilizing Skin Hue KeyingBTS and Ikegami (Joint Award
    • 1997-1998 Development of a High Resolution Digital Film Scanner Eastman Kodak and Philips Germany.
    • 2000-2001 Pioneering developments in shared video-data storage systems for use in television video servers - Thomson/Philips - SLC, UT
    • 2002-2003 Technology to simultaneously encode multiple video qualities and the corresponding metadata to enable real-time conformance and / or playout of thehigher quality video (nominally broadcast) based on the decisions made using the lower quality proxiesMontage. Philips and Thomson.

[edit] Also See


[edit] Telemation Productions

Was a Post Productions house in Seattle Wa., Chicago Il., Phoenix AZ and Denver Co. in the 1970s and early 80s. Offices were sold or closed in the late 1980s. http://www.ikarma.com/id/8284]. It does not look like Telemation Productions was related to TeleMation Inc. of SLC UT.


[edit] External links

  • [1] - Remembering TeleMation, Inc. Web site

[edit] Ref.

  • [5]- TeleMation to B&H
  • [6]- BTS: Philips and Bosch
  • [7] - Noise filter
  • [8] Robert Bosch Fernseh Division
  • [9] - BTS
  • [10] - Bosch BTS Page 15
  • [[11]] Telecine
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