Pace, which supplies set-top boxes to broadcasters, said pretax profit rose to $68.6 million (44.7 million pounds) from $21.4 million a year before.

Yorkshire, Northern England-based Pace said it expected full year profit for the group to be higher than its previous forecast.

Revenue rose 31 percent to $1.32 billion in the first-half.

Pace's 2012 first-half was hurt by a disruption in supply of hard disk drives due to flooding in Thailand in late 2011.

Media servers connect TV and internet broadband content with screens at customers' homes, including smartphones, laptops, set-top boxes and tablets.

(Reporting by Tasim Zahid in Bangalore; Editing by Akshay Lodaya)