BT drops Pace from internet TV project

From ft.com: http://on.ft.com/Xzw5iG
"BT Group has ended a deal with Pace to supply it with set-top boxes for its YouView internet television service in a blow for the Yorkshire-based technology company."
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Whilst I have found the Pace BT Vision box to be excellent (and Vision 2.0, too) Humax is a brand that means quality and a good reputation.
And the side-effect of the above news also means that Humax BT YouView boxes will also roughly keep in line with the retail box updates. And with the amount of functionality updates that are to come between now and 2013, the fewer boxes the better, where rolling out such new updates are concerned.
In September BT revealed it had ceased buying YouView set-top boxes from Pace. But the telecoms operator said at the time that it still planned to launch a service with the UK technology company with what was expected to be smaller and faster technology.
BT has now revealed that it is no longer working with Pace for its YouView service...The telecoms group said that Pace...would still continue to act as a supplier for BT Vision...But a spokesman said: “BT has agreed with Pace that the company will no longer develop BT’s YouView set top box.”
As BT Vision's numbers are so small, this is no major hit to Pace, but IMHO it's a major plus for BT YouView users to continue to be supplied with a Humax YV box.