UK set top specialist Pace has landed a deal to supply HD DVRs to Sky Italia, the DTH satellite TV service owned by News Corp.
Pace is effectively continuing its long term relationship with News Corp properties, for what is the Italian arm’s first launch into HD DVRs. Pace will supply its TDS850NS model with dual tuners, H.264 compression and a 250GB hard drive which will store up to 60 hours of HD programming. The TDS850NS comes with OpenTV middleware and NDS conditional access.
Pace has also been chosen to supply an MPEG-4 capable standard definition DVR, its TDS480NS, again a twin-tuner PVR with a 160GB hard drive, which will store 60 hours of SD programming. Pace has also won new orders for two non-DVR products, one HD and one SD device, neither with any storage.
Paola Formenti, Sky Italia Technical Director commented: ‘Pace has been our prime set-top box partner for many of our service launches to date ‘ from our first digital deployment with NDS conditional access in 2003, to DVR and HD in 2006.’