verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message ericsson television type subsidiary of ericsson industry digital video founded 1979 headquarters southampton uk key people head of mpbl compression arpad jordan products advanced compression on demand and interactive television systems number of employees over 1100 slogan it s time to play website www.tandbergtv.com ericsson television formerly tandberg television is a company providing mpeg 4 avc mpeg 2 and hevc encoding decoding and control solutions plus stream processing packaging network adaption and related products for c d iptv cable dtt sat dth and ott . the global headquarters are located in southampton england with additional offices in rennes france . the company was honoured with its first technology & engineering emmy award in 2008 for the development of interactive video on demand infrastructure and signaling 1 leading to large scale vod implementations . it was also awarded another emmy in 2009 for pioneering development of mpeg 4 avc systems for hdtv . 2 then in 2011 for the pioneering development and deployment of active format description technology and system . 3 in 2013 the company acquired another emmy award for the pioneering development of video on demand vod dynamic advertising insertion . 4 recently in 2014 ericsson got its fifth emmy award recognition for its work in developing pioneering jpeg2000 interoperability technology . 5 history edit tandberg is a long standing norwegian company whose history goes back to the 1930s when it supplied domestic radio equipment . it grew into other areas during the decades after ww2 including a well respected audio equipment manufacturer and its reel to reel tape recorders were sought after by hifi enthusiasts . the kjelsas factory also started producing tv sets in 1960 and in 1966 a second tv plant was opened in kjeller in skedsmo . color tv s were added to their lineup in 1969 . in 1972 tandberg purchased radionette another large norwegian electronics firm that has just begun focusing on televisions . by 1976 tv s were tandberg s major product and their factories employed 3 500 . however that same year a major economic downturn seriously disrupted the company and by 1978 it was insolvent . a shareholder revolt removed vebjorn tandberg from control of the company and he committed suicide in august . in december the company declared bankruptcy . tandberg television originally with headquarters in lillestrom near oslo norway was formed in 1979 when the original tandberg company split into tandberg tandberg data and tandberg television . after the breakup of 1979 edit in 1999 tandberg television entered into a 170 million agreement to acquire all the assets of nds group s digital tv products business the digital broadcasting business dbb a subsidiary of the news corporation group . after the acquisition tandberg television could offer digital video compression encoders multiplexers and modulation products for large satellite dth systems terrestrial networks and mobile news gathering solutions . nds group itself was a merger in 1996 between news corp s existing news data communications ndc based in israel a company that supplied smart cards to pay tv operators like sky tv and digi media vision dmv a video compression company that news had acquired in 1995 and had been the advanced products division apd of national transcommunications limited ntl in the uk . ntl was itself established in 1990 as the privatised engineering arm of the independent broadcasting authority iba the uk commercial broadcasting regulator and operator of all commercial terrestrial television and radio transmitters . apd was the experimental and development e & d department of the iba . much earlier in 1987 tandberg television and the iba s e & d and satellite engineering groups had worked together to build a satellite broadcasting system for the uk based on the ill fated mac system operated by sky s rival british satellite broadcasting bsb . bsb and sky merged in 1990 to form british sky broadcasting bskyb which has become a significant broadcaster in the uk . since 1999 tandberg television has acquired four u.s based digital media companies . in october 2005 they acquired los angeles based goldpocket interactive an interactive technology provider for digital television the internet and wireless mobile networks . further in february 2006 they acquired skystream networks a provider of ip mpeg 2 and mpeg 4 avc video delivery solutions based in sunnyvale california . later the same year they acquired los angeles based internet tv software developer zetools . in april 2007 tandberg television was acquired by ericsson . ericsson television operates as an independent entity . references edit n2 broadband part of tandberg television emmy award s for the development of interactive video on demand infrastructure and signalling directv and tandberg television pioneering development of mpeg 4 avc systems for hdtv ericsson television pioneering development and deployment of active format description technology and system n2 broadband ericsson s emmy award for the pioneering development of video on demand vod dynamic advertising insertion ericsson awarded 5th emmy award for jpeg2000 interoperability retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ericsson television & oldid 724131052 categories defunct companies of norwayelectronics companies of norwaytandbergtelecommunications equipment vendorshidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2014all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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