Sky outsourced Sky + HD box manufacturing to other companies
“Sky outsourced manufacturing of Sky + HD boxes to other companies”
Summary
Sky’s set‑top boxes, including the Sky+ HD models, have been built by external manufacturers such as Pace, Thomson, Amstrad and Samsung rather than produced in‑house. The first‑generation Sky+ boxes were made exclusively by Pace, and later models were supplied by other contract makers, confirming that Sky outsourced their manufacturing.
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- Sky+ HD - Wikipedia
In 2009, a manufacturing fault led to a batch of up to 90,000 units manufactured by Pace requiring replacement; Sky offered customers 3 months free HD pack subscription for the inconvenience. For connectivity with HD ready televisions, the box outputs via a HDMI connector (adapters to Digital ...
- Digibox - Wikipedia
Past manufacturers are Thomson, Pace, Amstrad and Samsung. These boxes have all the features of a Sky+ box, as well as a HDMI output, and the early Thomson DSI8215 model has component video output. Both SATA and Ethernet ports are also supplied, currently used for the Sky Anytime+ service.
- Sky+ - Wikipedia
Sky+ 40 GB (discontinued) – First version of Sky+, which costed £300. An average of twenty hours recording time. The first generation of boxes (referred to as a PVR1s within Sky) were manufactured exclusively by Pace for the UK and Ireland market.
- Best Sky+ HD box manufacturer? — Digital Spy
Pace and Amstrad, I do not know about the others I have both boxes and I have had no faults with them, even the software upgrades itself Pace don't make boxes anymore, Joshua. They haven't for quite some time.
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Press Release: Tata Sky’s partner Technicolor to move their Set-Top Box manufacturing to India. Click here to read the details of this press release
- Who owns Sky+ box? | AVForums
Apart from that though, there is no reason why you can't do what you have suggested, and Sky won't have a problem pairing your Sky card with a HD box, even if they themselves didn't provide the HD box.
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