Established in Korea in 1998, TOPFIELD Co., Ltd. is a consumer electronics

Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...

 manufacturer making broadcasting receivers, other video and audio related apparatus. Their main business is making products such as set top boxes (STBs)

Set-top box

A set-top box or set-top unit is an information appliance device that generally contains a tuner and connects to a television set and an external source of signal, turning the signal into content which is then displayed on the television screen or other display device.-History:Before the...

 and personal video recorders (PVRs) to be used with satellite television

Satellite television

Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...

 or digital television

Digital television

Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...

. Topfield have never manufactured televisions.

The company has head offices in Bundang

Bundang

Bundang is the southernmost district of Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. In addition to being the most populous part of the city, it also has the status of being one of the wealthiest regions in Gyeonggi Province...

, Korea, and branch offices in Germany and Thailand.

Personal Video Recorder

Topfield produces PVRs for standard- and high-definition

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 television program recording. The PVRs store the digital files in a container-format with the *.REC file extension on their hard-disk drives.

Various unofficial alternative versions of operating software with additional features and bug fixes have been made available, and the operation of Topfield PVRs can be substantially modified by installing third-party Topfield Application Programs

Topfield TAP

A Topfield Application Program is a software application which extends the standard functionality of the Topfield products designed for digital TV. Examples of TAPs are electronic programme guides, digital photo viewers and MP3 players....

 (TAPs).

Models

A complete list of models is available on the Topfield website

• DBC-5100
• TF-100C Black Edition
• TF-100T Black Edition
• TF400PVRc
• TF400PVRt
• TF500PVRc
• TF500PVRt
• TF550PVR
• TF600PVRc
• TF600PVRt
• TF650PVR
• TF5000 PVRt
• TF5800PVR
  TF5800PVR
  The TF5800PVR and similar TF5800PVRt is the UK Freeview version of Topfield's TF5000PVRt, which is a personal video recorder with twin tuners; it is possible to record two programs and view a third so long as all programs do not use more than two multiplexes...
  
   TF58x0 models are UK Freeview PVRs
• TF5800PVRt
• TF5810PVRt
• TF7100HD PVRt Plus
• TRF-2460
• TRF-2400
• TRF-7160

External links

• Topfield's Official Korean site
• TAPWorld - A directory of Topfield Application Programs (TAPs)
• Topfield's Russian site
• Topfield's Official Australian site
• Topfield Australian Forum
• Oztoppy Wiki - An independent wiki with information about different Topfield models sold in Australia
• Toppy - UK based user forum
• Topfield freeview PVR - An independent site with much UK Topfield PVR5800 and PVR5800t information.
• More information about Topfield 5000 and 5100 PVR models sold in Finland (in Finnish)