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In July 2018, Technicolor closed the sale of its Patent Licensing business to InterDigital, and in February 2019, received a binding offer for its Research & Innovation Activity from the same company.

Technicolor purchased the set-top box division of Pioneer and LG. Technicolor Precision BioDevices is established with the Microfluidics Innovation Centre base in Camarillo, CA.

Technicolor acquired the North American optical disc manufacturing and distribution assets from Cinram Group, Inc.
This same year in 2015, Technicolor also acquired the set-top box and cable modem business from Cisco Systems

Technicolor Home Entertainment Services was producing and shipping 1.3 billion discs globally annually. The Memphis facility was handling over 900,000,000 discs each year.

Thomson divested the PRN and Grass Valley sub-businesses to focus on services business and rebranded itself as Technicolor.

Technicolor makes world's first commercial HD DVD discs followed by the world’s first Blu Ray in 2007, Blu Ray 3D in 2010, and UHD Blu-Ray in 2016.

In 2004, Thomson set up a joint venture (TTE) with China's TCL, giving to TCL all manufacturing of RCA and Thomson television and DVD products, and making TCL the global leader in TV manufacturing (Thomson maintained control of the brands and licensed them to TTE).

Supply Chain Solutions facilities in Mexico and Poland added CD and DVD replication providing our clients a partner with global capabilities.

Technicolor makes first commercial Microsoft Xbox Discs for the new gaming system. Over the years, Technicolor also created the first Xbox360 disc in 2005 and the first Xbox One disc in 2013.

Thomson buys Technicolor from Carlton Communications

Technicolor and Nimbus merge businesses to embrace the newest technology called digital versatile disk (DVD). Companies were looking for one partner to manufacture, package and distribute DVDs. By combining their people, systems and talents, this new company had a huge head start over the competition.

In 1995, the French government split the consumer electronics from the defense businesses of Thomson Multimedia and Thomson-CSF prior to privatization in 1999, following which Thomson-CSF became Thales in 2000.

Technicolor makes their first compact disc in a new California facility which the Los Angeles Times said at the time was a “gamble that the photo and video compact disc market will expand exponentially once computer CDs replace videotapes as the primary unit of information storage and retrieval.”

Carlton Communications, headquartered in the UK, bought Technicolor to expand their video cassette duplication services across North America.

After GE sold their consumer electronics division, as well as the consumer electronics divisions of RCA and ProScan, to Thomson-CSF in 1988, Thomson Consumer Electronics was formed.

Nimbus manufactures the first compact disc in the UK using the Nimbus Halliday Laser Mastering System

In 1982, both Thomson-Brandt and Thomson-CSF saw nationalization. Thomson-Brandt was renamed Thomson SA (Société Anonyme), and soon merged with Thomson-CSF.

Nimbus Records, which eventually becomes part of Technicolor, makes their first vinyl records. Due to the resurgence of vinyl for music lovers, Vantiva began pressing records again at our Guadalajara facility in 2022.

In 1966, CFTH merged with Hotchkiss-Brandt. Renamed Thomson-Brandt, the electronics business of the company merged with Compagnie Générale de Télégraphie Sans Fil (CSF) in 1968 to form Thomson-CSF.

Technicolor Corporation was co-founded by Herbert Kalmus and Daniel Frost Comstock after meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their film technology brought Hollywood into the modern ages with color and continuous improvements until recently with digital special effects.

In 1893, the Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston (CFTH) was formed in Paris, a sister company to the General Electric Company in the United States. It was from this company that the modern Thomson Group would evolve, named after its founder the electrical engineer Elihu Thomson.