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''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:C More First HD Pan-Nordic television channels Television stations in Denmark Television channels in Sweden

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