Sky Italia

Sky Italia selects Pace as launch partner for HD PVR

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Sky Italia has chosen Pace plc as supplier of its high definition personal video recorders (HD PVRs) for the launch of its HD PVR service.

The Pace HD PVR comes with dual DVB-S2 tuners, H.264 compression and a 250GB hard drive to store up to 60 hours of HD programming. The TDS850NS model is integrated with OpenTV middleware and NDS conditional access.
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Pace will also provide an MPEG-4 capable standard definition (SD) PVR, the TDS480NS. The model comes with a 160GB hard drive capable of storing up to 60 hours of SD programming.

The TDS850NS and TDS480NS include future-proof engineering considerations, such as SVP (secure video processor), Ethernet and USB Hardware support.
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Paola Formenti, Sky Italia Technical Director said: "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 PVR and HD in 2006. They have successfully demonstrated their expertise in delivering the whole family of set-top box technologies and we look forward to continuing to work together in bringing the latest technologies to our customers."

Richard Slee, President of Pace EMEA and APAC added: "This latest agreement demonstrates our passion for finding new ways to improve our current products while, at the same time, developing the technologies that will help Sky Italia maintain its role as a leading European payTV operator".