TelstraClear T-Box launched in New Zealand

The T-Box – TelstraClear’s fully-featured Personal Video Recorder and IPTV-enabled set top box – has been launched.

T-Box is now available to TelstraClear’s InHome customers in Wellington, Kapiti and Christchurch who have access to the company’s established hybrid fibre cable (HFC) networks. It will be available to customers outside these areas as new networks are built as part of the Government’s Ultra-fast Broadband initiative.

The T-box is a television set-top box that enables viewers to record two high definition (HD) channels of content simultaneously while they are watching a third HD channel as it is being broadcast, or as it has been previously recorded.

It can record up to 50 hours of HD television, up to 180 hours of standard television and will support the future delivery of on-demand video via the internet.

TelstraClear’s Head of Consumer Markets, Steve Jackson, says the arrival of T-Box has huge importance for fibre-to-the-home developments in this country.

“The T-Box is another example of the new range of products and services, including our market-leading fast broadband services, that TelstraClear is developing to deliver to New Zealanders as fibre reaches their homes.

“With T-Box, TelstraClear is proposing to deliver a level of video-on-demand functionality well beyond what is available on cable networks in most other countries, including Australia,” Mr Jackson says.

TelstraClear has collected a huge number of registrations of interest from customers wanting to experience T-Box since an initial announcement on its development in June 2009.

“We know our customers have been waiting for this product as the testing and refining of the T-Box took longer than expected.

“However, now the launch is underway we will be contacting each of these customers, and others, over the coming weeks to confirm their orders and we expect to be installing T-box in homes from September 27,” Mr Jackson says.