Thomson has signed a manufacturing agreement with B
SkyB to produce its newest version of the
Sky+ digital satellite receiver and integrated digital video recorder (DVR) commencing October of this year.
The
Sky+ 160 is the first box in the
Sky+ family to offer increased storage capacity via the use of a 160 Gigabyte hard drive, delivering an average of 80 hours recording capacity. It also features USB 2.0 connectivity for future applications and is based on xTV, the DVR and extended conditional access system from NDS. The DVR functionality will be identical to that of the existing leading
Sky+ product line.