Everything about Pace Micro Technology totally explained
Pace plc is a
UK developer of
set-top boxes for
Cable television,
Satellite television and
IPTV operators, founded in 1982. They took over from
Amstrad as the main supplier for
BSkyB. They were the first manufacturer to ship boxes for
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland) in 1998 and for a time were the only provider of
Sky+ boxes. Pace is also the main supplier of set-top boxes for
SKY Network Television in
New Zealand.
The company started off making dial up
modems, and claims to have developed the first consumer modems.
Overview
Pace's head office is in
Saltaire, near
Bradford in
West Yorkshire. It occupies a large proportion of the
Victorian textile mill complex called
Salt's Mill.
In 1995, they manufactured the world's first
DVB decoders for Australian satellite company
Galaxy, and had shipped a million DVB units by 1997. By 1998, they were developing solely digital decoders.
Pace was
floated on the
London Stock Exchange in 1996. The modem division was dissolved in 2000.
Being an indigenous manufacturer, UK media providers are more likely to use Pace equipment. As a result the company had, for many years, close to a monopoly on the supply of cable decoders,
DTT equipment,
ADSL based
VOD systems and satellite decoders suitable for use on UK networks. Pace don't tend to produce retail products, but did produce the first freeview PVR, the
Twin.
In 1999, Pace purchased the set top box division of
Acorn Computers, this becoming its
Cambridge office. As a result, for a number of years, Pace owned
RISC OS, and used technologies based on it in its decoder equipment. The Cambridge office was closed down in 2003 for cost cutting reasons.
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In 2001, Pace announced that it was
outsourcing the last 25
percent of manufacturing output which remained at Saltaire. Thus the head office is now an administration and design/development centre.
In March 2002, Pace became the first company to market a free-to-view DTT receiver via the Pace DTVA. This, technically, was the first
Freeview receiver on the market, although Freeview didn't begin until
October that year.
In 2005, Pace in conjunction with Australian subscription television provider
Foxtel launched the first DVB-C Personal Digital Recorder with Foxtel iQ
In April 2006 Neil Gaydon became CEO, taking over from John Dyson, and Mike McTighe became the new Chairman, taking over from Sir Michael Bett.
The most recent development for Pace has been a breakthrough in the US market where it's now delivering products to Comcast and DirecTV - the largest cable and satellite operators in the world.
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