Company Profile USA
Founded in 1995, SIM2 is an electronics brand that is synonymous with performance, innovation and style. The company provides the world’s most comprehensive and impressive collection of projectors and high-end large screen displays on the market today. This reputation for outstanding design is well earned. Over the years the company has continually underlined its strong commitment to innovation and great passion for outstanding image quality. Indeed, SIM2 invests over 20% of its human resources and over 10% of total turnover in R&D activities, assuring innovation of products and cutting-edge stylish design. The result has seen the company consistently introduce a succession of world firsts, always raising the bar in terms of performance and industrial design. SIM2 has picked up a plethora of important awards in the process and has been feted by the press across the globe.
SIM2 Multimedia’s headquarters are located in Pordenone, Italy.
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The Mission: Innovation in Home Cinema
SIM2 is a company that exists to identify and exploit state-of-the-art technologies and supply top-quality, future-proof products that can help people connect, unleash emotions and improve their living standards.
SIM2’s skilled and highly enthused staff is the key to the company’s success. Indeed, passion and technology coupled with commitment to innovation, quality, value and design to contribute to the benefit of our customers throughout the world.
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Research and Development: a constant effort for innovation
SIM2 Multimedia is committed to the ideal of creating the finest quality video display solutions for both the home theater applications and professional video markets.
Throughout the years, SIM2 has consistently delivered the core technological innovations behind the home theater industry's most significant advances. In the early days, home theater projectors were simply ‘tweaked’ versions of existing data units. SIM2 were the first company to use DLP® technology to produce the world’s first digital home theater projector in 2000. Since then the company has been committed to bringing the latest technology to market first. It is this passion for creating cinema-quality images in the home that drives the company today.- Among the first companies world-wide to develop High Definition projectors
- Development capacity of innovative optical systems: Numerous optics and electronics international patents
1. Compact ALPHA-path engine
2. Videoprojector focusing system
3. Light path for 3-chip videoprojectors
4. No-imaging optics systems to maximise light convergence from the sources
5. Fibre optic transmission for HD video signals on a projectorHigh skills in electronic solutions for video and image processing
- Remarkable knowledge in design of aesthetic solutions using avant-garde materials.
- Development of complex systems for control roomsFirst company in the world to use fiber optics cable link in home theatre.
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Quality and Reliability: a must for all SIM2 products
In a world ruled by visual communication, where images and pictures are what we all look for first, information need to be presented clearly, sharply, and consistently.
This is why, during the production process, the smallest to the largest component undergoes the most rigorous quality check of our expertise to ensure superior products with high reliability.SIM2 has always taken great pride in giving our customers the best possible experience from our products by choosing only high-quality materials.
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The distribution
SIM2 is world-oriented with a direct presence in Italy (headquarters), Germany, UK and USA (National Sales Offices) and a representative office in China. Select distribution in over 60 countries world-wide is achieved through partnerships with highly qualified distributors; all offering the same excellent customer service standards as the main company.
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Timeline: Ten years of innovation in home cinema
1995: SIM2 is the first company world-wide to launch a built-in line-doubler into a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) projector.
1997: SIM2 is the first manufacturer world-wide in the production of CRT projectors.
2000: SIM2 is the first company world-wide to manufacture front projectors designed specifically for home cinema: The Grand Cinema series. Innovative and unique in both technology solutions and aesthetic design, this amazing series has revolutionized the home theater world.
2001: SIM2 is one of the first two companies world-wide to launch a High Definition front projector series based on DLP™ technology: the HT300.
2002: SIM2 introduces the new rearprojection series based on DLP™ HD2 chip: the Grand Cinema RTX. cutting-edge design combined with the most advanced technology available: fiber optics cable.
2003: SIM2 introduces the fiber optics cable concept in its front projectors range for incredible flexibility with the installation and a truly future proof connectivity.
January 2004: SIM2 launches the first 3-chip DLP™-based projector specifically designed for home theatre applications: the HT500 LINK. Built to deliver a real home cinema experience, the HT500 LINK can project images up to 9 meters wide.
February 2004: Following the introduction in Sept. 2003 in the HT300 series, SIM2 implements the HDMI™ input on the complete product range. HDMI™ is a purely digital connection that transmits the uncompressed bitstream directly from the source through to the display.
September 2004:SIM2 debuts in the LCD Display market with the HTL40 series that combines the latest in advanced LCD technologies with sleek, fashionable design and high performance picture quality.
September 2004: SIM2 is the first company world-wide to incorporate HD2+ DC3 chips in its projectors (HT300 E-volution Line) for an exceptionally natural, crystal clear image.
2005: Looking forward to a new decade of great innovation