It was a moot point whether or not DirecTV would continue with NDS technology ‘ both conditional access and software, not to mention its DVR design – once Liberty Media had acquired it from News Corp, the erstwhile parent of NDS. But this week NDS must have breathed a sigh of relief as it renewed contracts through to 2016 with DirecTV for set top software and DVR technology in both the US and Latin America. CanalSat Switzerland said this week it had announced a new partnership with Nagravision on conditional access, though we’re not really sure what the question marks were, the rest of CanalSat uses Nagra, has for ages. Looks like it has just upgraded to the next generation…