The new PVR set-top box, the result of an agreement with Scientific-Atlanta, incorporates a 160Gb hard drive and three video tuners, which will allow viewers to receive Telewest Broadband’s digital TV service and record two programmes simultaneously while watching a third. This is a significant step forward in functionality from many existing PVRs, which can only manage two channels at once.
Sky+ is currently the market leader in the PVR field within the UK, with 474,000 subscribers. Sky Plus boxes come in two versions – a standard definition 160GB version for £89 and a HD 160GB version for £399. Sky also charges a £10 subscription fee to the service, unless viewers have a subscription to one of its premium packages.
Telewest has currently charging £199 for the box and £10 (or £15 depending on your existing subsciption) a month for the service. The cableco says the box is high-definition TV (HDTV) compatible, which offers a significant improvement in picture quality compared with today’s standard-definition digital TV broadcasts, especially on larger plasma and LCD screens.
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