Grundig Company

For over 50 years the Grundig name has been synonymous with innovation, style, quality and performance. The latest product ranges continue this tradition whilst embracing the latest Digital technologies.

Technologies include LCD TVs with built-in Digital tuners (idTV), and high definition 'HD Ready' TVs, which allow you to take full advantage of this exciting new era in broadcasting.

With Grundig comes the confidence that you are buying a product with a great tradition and a great future.
Now grundig have used all that experience to brining you the Grundig GFSDTR500HD recording high definition box,
grundig free sat digital tv receiver/recorder
500gb hard drive
High Definition DVB-S2 Set Top Box
Access all Freesat digital channels and radio stations

Grundig have put all thier technilogical experience into this to give you great specification.
500GB Hard Drive High Definition DVB-S2 Set Top Box Twin DVB-S2 Tuner Access all Freesat digital channels and radio stations Upscaling of SDTV to HD when connected via HDMI 8-day Electronic Programme Guide Audio description capable (broadcast mix) Freesat/DTG compliant Digital Text (MHEG5) LAN port for connection to internet services (tbc) Twin SCART sockets HDMI Connection HDMI Cable Remote control.

Company history

The history of the Grundig company began in 1930 with the establishment of a store named Fuerth, Grundig & Wurzer (RVF), which sold radios. After World War II Max Grundig recognized the need for radios in Germany, and in 1947 produced a kit, while a factory and administration centre were under construction at Fürth. In 1951 the first televisions were manufactured at the new facility with the company and the surrounding area growing rapidly. At the time Grundig was the largest radio manufacturer in Europe. Divisions in Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe were set up. In 1960 tape recorders were manufactured in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the first production by Grundig outside Germany.

Grundig Satellit 2100 radio receiver (early '70s)In 1972, Grundig GmbH became Grundig AG. After this Philips began to gradually accumulate shares in the company over the course of many years, and assumed complete control in 1993. Philips resold Grundig to a Bavarian consortium in 1998 due to unsatisfactory performance.
In November 1998, Grundig launched a new advertising campaign that emphasized Grundig's technological and innovative strength featuring four of the company's star products: the brilliant 100 Hz TV sets, an Internet Box, an audio compact set with space-fidelity technology, and the first serial digital audio broadcast component for use in cars. While looking for new strategic partners, Grundig's R&D efforts were directed in particular toward the market introduction of equipment for new digital services delivered by satellite, terrestrial, and cable. In February 1999, Grundig announced the founding of the new subsidiary, Grundig Digital Systems, headquartered in San Jose, California, and the takeover of R&D capacities for digital television broadcasting from TV/COM International, another California firm located in San Diego, where it was planning to work on new generations of set-top boxes and integrated digital modules for TV sets. In January 1999, Grundig had acquired a license from the American firm Macrovision Corp. for its pay-per-view copy protection technology to be included in its set-top decoders, which restricts unauthorized recording of pay-TV programs by consumers.

At the end of June 2000 the company relocated its headquarters in Fürth and Nuremberg. Grundig lost €1.281 million the following year. In autumn 2002, Grundig's banks did not extend the company's lines of credit, leaving the company with an April 2003 deadline to announce insolvency. Grundig AG declared bankruptcy in 2003, selling its satellite equipment division to Thomson. In 2004 Britain's Alba plc and the Turkish Koc's Beko jointly took over Grundig Home InterMedia System, Grundig's consumer electronics division. In 2007 Alba sold its half of the business to Beko for US$50.3 million, although it retained the licence to use the Grundig brand in the UK until 2010, and in Australasia until 2012