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C More First HD is a
high-definition television High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since at least 1933; in more recent times, it ref ...
channel owned by C More Entertainment showing movies and television series in the
Nordic countries The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; ) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe, as well as the Arctic Ocean, Arctic and Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic oceans. It includes the sovereign states of Denm ...
. The channel was launched as ''C More HD'' on 1 September 2005. It was then the first HDTV channel targeting the Nordic countries broadcasting with
MPEG-2 MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods ...
compression from the Thor 2 satellite and
MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. It was originally introduced in late 1998 as a group of audio and video coding formats and related ...
with cable on the Canal Digital platform. The content consisted of three movies every evening. On 1 November 2006, it was rebranded as ''Canal+ HD'' and is now broadcasting H.264. The Swedish cable distributor
Com Hem Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplied Triple Play services that included cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Telever ...
launched HDTV on December 12th, 2006, and then included Canal+ HD in its offerings. In early February 2007, C More launched another HD channel. ''Canal+ HD'' was then renamed ''Canal+ Film HD'' and the new channel was named '' Canal+ Sport HD''.


See also

* Canal+ * C More First * C More Hits * C More Action * Canal+ Sport *
Canal+ Sport 2 Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or river engineering, engineered channel (geography), channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport watercraft, vehicles (e.g. ...


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