PACE EXTENDS LEADERSHIP IN EUROPE

PACE Micro Technology, based in West Yorkshire, have been confirmed as European digital set-top leader for the third year in succession.
The latest report from independent research analysts Dataquest shows that Pace have opened up a lead of over 2 per cent market share ahead of their nearest rival.
The figures reflect Pace’s strong position in the European market, where the company supplies more mainstream pay television businesses than any other set-top box developer. Customers include Sky Digital, ONdigital, NTL, Telewest, Kingston Communications, and Canal+ in France, Italy and Poland.
Building on these foundations, Pace have also recently announced new contracts with TVCabo in Portugal and are now broadening their business in the US with contracts with Time Warner Cable, Comcast Cable and BellSouth Entertainment.
Malcolm Miller, Pace’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “Pace are the world’s largest dedicated developers of digital set-top box technology and the only one to deliver products across satellite, cable, terrestrial and ADSL platforms. Through our investment in research and development, we are constantly at the leading edge of digital television technology from the creation of advanced, high-speed digital cable to set-top boxes to the integration of hard disk drives.
“At Pace we are constantly exploring new ways to leverage this powerful, consumer-friendly technology. We are now evolving the set-top box into a home gateway, where the set-top box is the portal for video, data and voice communications.”
At IBC 2000 announced the development of the networked home, where consumer devices and services interact with each other and the outside world through a set-top box ‘home gateway’ environment.”