Thomson S. A. provides video technologies, systems, finished products, and services to customers and professionals in the entertainment and media industries. Its Services division offers film services and DVD services, including content preparation, planning, manufacturing, and physical distribution services, storage services that comprise compression, archiving, and indexing, digital media asset management services, such as storage, manipulation, retrieval, and streaming of video and audio content, and asset rights management, anti-piracy solutions, and technology consulting, as well as network services that assemble video programming or manage distribution of video content through video networks to broadcasters, retailers, cinema exhibitors, and other enterprises.

The company Systems and Equipment division provides equipment and services for the capture and processing of video content, and for the distribution and delivery of video content, and double and triple play solutions to broadcasters and network operators. This division also distributes various products, such as studio and professional cameras, film imaging and signal processing equipment, head-end encoders, decoders, broadcast servers, routers, softswitches, settop boxes, modems, customer premises equipment, and telephony products through retailers.

Thomson Technology division involves in corporate research; Licensing of patents and trademarks; Design and development of silicon components, such as integrated circuit, tuners, and remotes, and development and commercialization of software and technology solutions. Thomson, formerly known as Thomson Multimedia S. A., was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Boulogne, France.