Bundang (South-Korea) & Antwerp (Belgium), 27th November 2006 • Euro1080, Europe’s first High Definition Television (HDTV) media company, and Topfield, a HDTV set top box manufacturer, signed a partnership commitment to promote HDTV in Europe through a joint partnership. Euro1080 will start selling Topfield HDTV Satellite receiver via its e-shop.
By joining the select group of Euro1080 partners, Topfield also has the right to show Euro1080 content at all of its points of sale. Consumer electronics manufacturers that have not entered into a partnership with Euro1080, are not permitted to do so.
Yong-Cheol Lee, CEO of Topfield stated: “The new partnership with Euro1080 proves the superb quality of Topfield’s product families, enhancing our ability to deliver high-quality video and audio standard to our end-users across the European region. I am delighted to partner with Euro1080 as we continue to build innovative and much reliable products in the AV industry. I believe this partnership will be an important strategic milestone for Topfiled to play a role of major participants in the fast growing European HD market successfully”.
Gabriel Fehervari, CEO of Euro1080, added: ”I am very pleased that Topfield has entered into a partnership with us. As all our other partners Topfield shares our passion for quality and HDTV. That is the reason why Euro1080 has chosen the Topfield TF7700 HSCI digital satellite receiver to sell via our e-shop (http://shop.euro1080.tv)”.
The other partners of Euro1080 are Astra, SES Sirius, Loewe, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony, Eutelsat, Mediasat, Humax, Canon, Grass Valley and XDC EVS Group.
