TC Unterhaltungselektronik AG

TCU AG leads the field of IPTV. With an international network, we combine the best of innovation and serious sustainability.

TCU AG is specialized in unique and patented TV/broadband products and peer to peer technology. Our company is an outstanding developer for iTV, IPTV, Android TV and P2P-TV. We are providing cutting edge TV applications p2p based. We are listed at the Frankfurt stock exchange (FSE) regular market.

We do not just deliver a piece of technology.

We create real, viable solutions.

Track record of an innovative technology leader:

Track record of an innovative technology leader:

Live TV Ad-Blocking
First live TV ad blocker Telefairy 1995-2001 (own set top box hardware)
Android based STB (fernsehfee.de) since 2013
2016: Tizen / Android TV app, gatekeeper release pending

Anonymous and innovative payment / encryption systems:

First In-Page Micropayment system Microdollar.org in 2003
Unique File-Encryption system (.otrkey), used over 42 million times
2015: Anonymous payment system coupon-cash.com (client-server based)

Faster to market:

In 2004 we were two years ahead of bittorrent in live streaming. Our flash based solution didn`t need additional software to install
2016: One of two companies worldwide supporting HTML5-P2P-Live-TV with VP9 codec

Persistent legal department:

Vital for disruptive game changing technologies.
Sued by all three major German TV broadcasters
Triumphed at highest German court (BGH) 6/2004
Sued by major European Pay TV operator Premiere (now Sky) 2004, pending at European court
2005 claim for damages successful confirmed by court
Highly experienced in european and international copyright law
Reliable, over 23 years in business: - 1995 co-founded by the German government, later founded as stock corporation 2/1998, listed at FSE (Frankfurt Stock Exchange)

Experienced in scalability:

Since 2005 lead developer for middle-size offshore websites from scratch
Maintaining more than 150 servers in 6 datacenters worldwide (USA, Switzerland, Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Spain)
12 websites and more than 500K users, including payment and support
Serving up to 1% of German web traffic

2017
A new dimension in filesharing
www.UltraUpload.io

2015
A simple anonymous payment solution
www.coupon-cash.com

2015 - 2013
Telefairy with worldwide unique TV adblocker, internat. sales

2011 - 2004
A powerful and free DVB/TV Media Center for MS Windows: TVOON

2005 - 1998
I-Box adblocker, Home-Controller with patented IR-Controller

1998
A OneClick Micro-payment for T- and E-Commerce

Executive Board

Petra Bauersachs
Member of the managing board (CMO/CHRO)

Trained and employed in the public service of her hometown Koblenz for 6 years, from 1995 until 2020: CEO of ...

Trained and employed in the public service of her hometown Koblenz for 6 years, from 1995 until 2020: CEO of TC Unterhaltungselektronik AG and more than 25% owner after IPO in the year 2000. Founder of TCUAG.

Catherine Konopaske
Member of the managing Board (COO)

Dan Settgast
Chairman of the managing board (CEO)

Developer-Team

Guido Ciburski
Head of software development

Studied Business engineering (operations research, optimisation) at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. The first computer ...

Studied Business engineering (operations research, optimisation) at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. The first computer procurement agency before the invention of the Internet (BTX), 1995 until today: Director until 2020 and chief technology evangelist of TC Unterhaltungselektronik AG and 25% owner after IPO in the year 2000. Founder of TCUAG.

TH

Lead developer and administrator for maintaining more than 150 servers in 6 data centers worldwide (USA, Switzerland, Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Spain). For some ...

Lead developer and administrator for maintaining more than 150 servers in 6 data centers worldwide (USA, Switzerland, Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Spain). For some years, his work was responsible for 1% of all german web traffic. Network / server administration, Linux server installation + configuration (Apache2, MySQL, PHP, Perl etc.), Bash-scripting, Video/ TV recording and encoding (FFmpeg).

AP

Peer to Peer professional, Backend Development, Full Stack Development, Software Architecture, Web Development, Javascript, WebRTC, ESLint, Code Quality, Networking ...

Peer to Peer professional, Backend Development, Full Stack Development, Software Architecture, Web Development, Javascript, WebRTC, ESLint, Code Quality, Networking P2P, Node.js, Express.js, Angular.JS, Backbone.js, Git, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Bash, Nginx, Coffeescript, CSS, Heroku, HTML, Grunt, Socket.io, Mocha, WebRTC, Stylus, React.js, Redux, ffmpeg, Video encoding, Aws, Google Cloud, Docker, QT, C++

KL

Programming in VC++ and Java for Windows, Ad Management and Helpdesk, Bank account management, customer support and supervising payment systems. He is ...

Programming in VC++ and Java for Windows, Ad Management and Helpdesk, Bank account management, customer support and supervising payment systems. He is fluent in German and Russian.

BR

Years of experience in programming and maintaining websites using PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript (AJAX) combined with a MySQL database. He is constantly designing ...

Years of experience in programming and maintaining websites using PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript (AJAX) combined with a MySQL database. He is constantly designing and creating new solutions, and has an eye for problem solving.

Supervisory Board

Thomas Nachtigahl
Chairman of the supervisory board

International Management, branding and communication specialist (more than 20 years experience), Management coach.

Dirk Peters
Member of the board

Started as CNC programmer then worked his way up to become Sales Manager of several real estate companies. Started his own real estate company in 2006.

Heinz Suhr
Member of the board

Mr. Suhr is a journalist and former German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). Suhr was press spokesman for the parliamentary group of Die Grünen in the ...

Mr. Suhr is a journalist and former German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). Suhr was press spokesman for the parliamentary group of Die Grünen in the German Bundestag from 1983 to mid-1990s. He ran unsuccessfully in the federal election in 1983 on the state list of the Hessian Die Grünen for a mandate in the German Bundestag. On April 1, 1985 became a member of the Parliament until 1987. Parallel to his press secretary function and also afterwards he worked as a freelance journalist in Bonn.

More information

TC is well known in german media industry due to its successful 5 years lawsuit against major german tv broadcaster RTL/Bertelsmann. In June 2004 TC has won against RTL at highest federal court (BGH) and can now market first realtime adblocker/filter worldwide (no ads during zapping). In March 2005 RTL was judged to pay back all damages by its wrong temporary injunctions to TC.

As a pioneer in Germany with an international network, we combine the best of innovative and serious sustainability. Since our topics are still uncharted territory in many aspects, we combine many competences, from content aggregation and preparation via broadcasting and customer processes to the technology and marketing of systems and services.

With this holistic expertise, we can design holistic solutions for other media market participants that actually work - including the business point of view. The largest of managed websites have up to 100,000 users / day. So we do not just deliver a piece of technology. We create real, now capable business.

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