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Fernseh

German television company

Fernseh AG was a German television company headquartered in Berlin. Founded in 1929, it did research and manufacturing of television equipment.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Fernseh AG was a German television company headquartered in Berlin. Founded in 1929, it did research and manufacturing of television equipment.2

The story

The company was registered in Berlin on July 3, 1929, by John Logie Baird, Robert Bosch, Zeiss Ikon and D.S. Loewe as partners. John Baird owned Baird Television Ltd. in London, Zeiss Ikon was a camera company in Dresden, D.S. Loewe owned a company in Berlin and Robert Bosch owned a company, Robert Bosch GmbH, in Stuttgart. It had an initial capital of 100,000 Reichsmark.

In 1929 Fernseh AG's original board of directors included: Emanuel Goldberg, Oliver George Hutchinson (for Baird), David Ludwig Loewe, and Erich Carl Rassbach (for Bosch) and Eberhard Falkenstein who did the legal work.

Carl Zeiss's company worked alongside the early Bosch company. Much of the early work was in the area of research and development. Along with early TV sets (DE-6, E1, DE10) Fernseh AG made the first "Remote Truck"/"OB van", an "intermediate-film" mobile television camera in August 1932. This was a film camera that had its film developed in the truck and a "telecine" then transmitted the signal almost "live".

From Wikipedia’s article on Fernseh, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Home Television sets (later moved to the Blaupunkt Division) (1930- )

Home Radios (later moved to the Blaupunkt Division) (1930- )

Vacuum tubeTube tester

Early mechanical Camera for Mechanical television 1938, "Universal mechanical scanner"

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Intermediate film system for Remote Truck (1936)

"Farvimeter" a universal electrical testing device (1947)

"Farvigraph" a universal Oscilloscope (1949)

Slide scanner for station ID and test patterns (1955)

Filmgeber film chain F16LP15 Analog

Fernseh Theater TV system, 1935

TV transmitter 1944

Master control, B&W Video switcher

Sound recorder — player, Diaabtaster DAT15, Fernseh

B & W film chain

OMY Color film chain - Analog

BCM-40 and B&W BM-20 2 inch Quadruplex videotape 1966-70s

B & W cameras like Videokamera s/w K11 VK9 HA

M series monitors

TV Oscilloscope

Video-signal generators

Television standards conversion(1970s) Analog Model NC 56 P 40, with Plumbicon tube camera inside.

Transcoder to convert PAL to SECAM and SECAM to PAl. (1972)

BCR pre BCN VTR

BCN series 1 inch type B videotape (1979–1989) Analog VTR

KC series color professional video camera KCU-40, KCR, KCK-40, KCK-R-40, KCP-40, KCP-60, KCA, KCF-1, KCM-125, KCA, KCN92, KCN(1967–1990),

Color film chain, with KCU-40 camera

MC series color and B&WVideo monitorMC-37, MC-50 MCH 51, MH 21

OB Van - TV Remote Trucks - and Terminal Rack Equipment

RME series Mixers — Switcher - Vision mixer, Analog

FDL-60 Telecine - The world's 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

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 world's first HDTV CCD Telecine (1994–1996)

Quadra 4:4:4 Telecine (1993–1998)

D6 HDTV VTR Uncompressed HDTV VTR (VooDoo)-(Gigabit Data Recorder) (2000–2006) (Now under Philips)

Spirit DataCine motion picture film scanner and 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 DataCine 4k Datacine - Telecine (2004-2014) also Spirit Spirit 2k/Spirit-HD (now Under Thomson-Grassvalley)

Bones Linux-Based Software for Spirit Datacine Telecine Transfer Engine Software (2005-2014 )

Bones Dailies (2008-2014)

LUTher 3D LUT Color Space (2005-2013)

Flexxity (2011-2014)

Scanity film scanner (2009- ) (Now under DFT)

Phantom 2: Linux-Based transfer Engine software and workstation for Spirit Datacine (2014-) (Now under DFT)

Polar HQ a 9.3K native scanner came out in 2023.

From Wikipedia’s article on Fernseh, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

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