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Thomson Multimedia and MS announce interactive TVs

French consumer electronics group Thomson Multimedia announced Tuesday a range of interactive televisions that will support Internet... Read more

5 December, 2000 by Graeme Wearden

More music for your memory

Thomson Multimedia is working to develop a new version of its patented MP3... Read more

11 January, 2001 by Greg Sandoval and Gwendolyn Mariano

Thomson Multimedia in supply deal with US satellite broadcaster

Thomson shares shoot on the news... Thomson Multimedia will supply digital TV set-top boxes to the second most... Read more

14 January, 2002 by Heather McLean

Thomson takes Technicolor in $2bn deal

French consumer electronics giant Thomson Multimedia has bought Carlton Communication's video and processing arm, Technicolor, for... Read more

11 December, 2000 by Suzanna Kerridge

HP backs Blu-ray DVD format

...Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony and Thomson Multimedia. Companies promoting the HD DVD format include Memory-Tech, NEC, Sanyo... Read more

17 November, 2004 by Richard Shim

AOL may eject CD division

...to the reports. Possible suitors include Technicolor, a unit of France's Thomson Multimedia, and Canada's Cinram International, according to The Wall Street Journal... Read more

7 March, 2003 by Jim Hu

New DVD spec gains speed

...Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Sharp. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Ricoh, Sony, Thomson Multimedia and Yamaha, are among the companies in the DVD+RW Alliance... Read more

9 August, 2002 by Richard Shim

Philips' blue lasers shrink discs

...Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony and Thomson Multimedia. Optical drives and discs are less expensive than the flash memory... Read more

20 June, 2002 by Richard Shim

Thomson focuses on cheap memory cards

...for the chip start-up. In the second half of this year, Thomson Multimedia will incorporate Matrix's 3-D Memory in memory cards that... Read more

8 January, 2002 by Michael Kanellos

Microsoft releases XP add-ons for MP3

...advance its digital music strategy. Rather than pay a licensing fee to Thomson Multimedia for the right to copy CDs in the MP3 format, Microsoft... Read more

23 October, 2001 by Joe Wilcox

MPEG-4 adds interactivity to video

While Microsoft and RealNetworks wage a noisy fight over their audio and video technologies, an underdog is quietly entering the fray Read more

9 August, 2001 by John Borland

Microsoft changes its tune on MP3 ripping

Windows XP will now support MP3 format in addition to Windows Media Audio Read more

16 July, 2001 by Joe Wilcox

Windows XP and MP3s may not mix

...amounts of digital music on a PC or a portable MP3 player. Thomson Multimedia, which licenses the rights to MP3 technology, on Thursday plans to... Read more

13 June, 2001 by Evan Hansen

3Com warns, discontinues cable, DSL

...modem business. French network equipment maker Alcatel sold its DSL business to Thomson Multimedia in a stock deal worth $389m. "It's a low-margin... Read more

8 June, 2001 by Wylie Wong

No free ride for MP3Pro

...dominance of the online music world, as patent holders, Fraunhofer Institute and Thomson Multimedia, are keenly aware. Companies getting their first glimpses of the new... Read more

17 May, 2001 by John Borland

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