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Canal Digital is a Scandinavian television distributor that was founded in March 1997 as a Joint Venture between the French pay-TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian state-telecommunications operator Telenor . Since 2001, Canal Digital is fully owned by Telenor . Canal Digital was originally only broadcasting a DTH satellite service to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, but have since expanding into Cable Television in Norway and Sweden, Digital Terrestrial Television in Finland and IPTV in Sweden. More than 2.9 million Nordic households and activities are subscribed to their services . Unlike its DTH rival, Viasat , Canal Digital does not own a TV-network – they have however secured several multi-year exclusive broadcasting deals with SBS Broadcasting Group , Eurosport , BBC Worldwide and Discovery Communications . Their satellite broadcasts can be received from the Thor 2 and Thor 3 satellites at 1°W with any DVB receiver equipped with a Conax descrambling module. SATELLITE TELEVISION High-definition television Canal Digital was the first major distributor in the region to launch High-definition Television , HDTV. The first channel, C More HD , was launched in September 2005 using MPEG-2 compression. In June 2006, Canal Digital started broadcasting ''HD-kanalen'' from Sveriges Television and TV4 AB in Sweden, which did broadcast the 2006 FIFA World Cup in HD using MPEG-4 compression. HD-kanalen became SVT HD in October when SVT expanded thair HD broadcasts. The major launch of HDTV occurred in Sweden in November 2006 when a special high-definition package with Discovery HD Europe and Voom HD launched and C More HD was rebranded as Canal+ HD . The high-definition package is to be released in the other Nordic countries during 2007. High-definition channels launching in 2007 include Canal+ Sport HD , National Geographic Channel HD , TV4 HD (Sweden only) and Silver HD . Danish channels
DR1 an DR2 are also available with a premium subscription in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Although TV 2 is broadcast on one of Canal Digital's transponders, it is not a DTH channel. Its only available to the Norwegian cable market, and is not a subscribtion channel. Finnish channels
Icelandic channels
Norwegian channels
Swedish channels
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CABLE TELEVISION Norway Sweden Canal Digital in Sweden expanded into cable television in September 2003 when the cable companies Telenor Vision and Sweden Online were merged into Canal Digital. TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION Canal Digital sells encryption cards for Disney Channel and the Canal+ channels. The package consists of Canal+ Film 1 , Canal+ Film 2 , Canal+ Sport 1 , Canal+ Sport 2 and the Disney Channel . IPTV An IPTV service was launched in Sweden in 2004. It offers most channels on the satellite platform as well as interactive services and Video On Demand from C More Select , C More On Demand , Film2Home and SF Anytime . SEE ALSO
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