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How much simpler can it get? You take the HD satellite set-top box already sitting in someone’s living room, perform a quick firmware update, plug an external hard drive into the USB jack and voila, it’s a bleedin’ DVR. Voila is right, though, since this News Corp-owned software fix is currently only available to Canal+ satellite customers in France.

A pionner in new technologies, CANAL+ GROUP is the first Pay TV operator to have launched HD programs via satellite in Spring 2006 and have today the largest offering in the French TV market with more than 10 HD channels. About NDSNDS Group plc (NASDAQ:NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-television platform operators and content providers.

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