 ITT Schaub-Lorenz was also behind the Digivision, the first television employing digital signal processing of the image.In 1986 throughout the following year, the ITT Telecommunications division (which included Schaub-Lorenz) was transferred to Alcatel through the French CGE, then in 1988 the consumer electronics division was further spun off and sold to Nokia, who sold some products under the ITT Nokia brand.Nokia closed their German TV factories in 1996, although their use of the ITT brand may have been discontinued earlier.