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| Type | Public |
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| Founded | February, 1989 |
| Headquarters |  South Korea |
| Key people | Dae Gyu Byun (CEO) |
| Industry | Consumer electronics |
| Products | Consumer Electronics including televisions, settop boxes and digital video recorders |
| Website | www.humaxdigital.com |
Humax is an electronics company. Founded in South Korea in 1989, it manufactures set-top boxes, digital video recorders, televisions and other consumer electronics. It is publicly traded on KOSDAQ.
Listed on the Korean stock exchange (KOSDAQ), Humax Co. Ltd of Korea is one of the world's leading digital satellite set-top box manufacturers, exporting its products to more than 90 countries across the globe. The company's international headquarters and R&D facility are based in Korea and Poland, with offices in Dubai, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US.
In 1997, the company opened a manufacturing facility in Northern Ireland which won a Queen's Award for Enterprise – International Trade 2002, but which has since closed leaving only the customer support and administration functions at this location. Additional production facilities are located in Korea, Poland (2004), India, and China. Humax recorded revenues exceeded US$400 million in 2004. Humax has announced plans to increase this figure to $1 billion by 2006. US headquarters are located in Irvine, California.
Humax is a member of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies (also including SES Astra, Philips, OpenTV and ANT Software) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard (called HbbTV) for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.
Products
- DTT 4100 (with 2 tuners)
- DTT 4000
- DTT 3700
- DTT 3600
- DTT 3500
- DTT 2100
- PVR 9150T
- PVR 9300T
- PVR 9300T500
- Foxsat HD (Freesat)
- Foxsat HDR (Freesat)
- IRCI 5400
- ND-1010C
- ND-2020C
See also
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