The popular sports channel panaeuropeo has started on May 25 coinciding with the beginning of the tournament of tennis of Roland Garros, competition that the chain will transmit directly one more year.

Eurosport HD expresses across four satellites by which his sign is distributed, in codified, given that it is part of several offers of platforms of television of payment. In all the cases it uses the norm DVB-S2 with the format of compression MPEG-4.

Eurosport HD is in the satellite Hot Bird 7th of Eutelsat across the orbital position of 13th East in the frequency 11.278-H MHz, included in the transpondedor of the Polish platform Cyfra +, codified in Mediaguard, Conax and Viaccess.

In the satellite Hispasat 1C (30th West) it expresses in the frequency 12.052-H MHz (MR. 30000, FEC 3/4) being part exclusive for Portugal of the platform I piss of Portugal Telecom.

Eurosport HD also distributes for the satellite Eurobird 9 (9th East) in the frequency 12.034-V MHz (MR. 27500, FEC 2/3). In this case the sign is part of the offer of the Hungarian platform Hello HD, codified in Conax.

And finally, Eurosport HD also is accessible across the satellite Thor 5 (1st West) in the frequency 12.419-V MHz (MR. 28000, FEC 7/8), integrated in the Scandinavian platform Digital Channel Nordic, codifcada in Conax.


Openly, like initial promotion

Eurosport HD can be provisionally openly in these first days of emission, only in the orbital position of 13th East of the satellite of Eutelsat Hot Bird 7th. In this frequency they have been activated up to nine routes of audio corresponding to the following languages: Pole, Turk, Russian, Dutch, Czech, German, portuguese, Hungarian and Spanish.

This May 25 Eurosport HD has begun his emission of official form in Turkey, Israel, Portugal and northerly countries for expansionarse in the future.

This new chain in HDTV of Eurosport expresses in format 16/9 and offers the same programming as the current, available one in three languages: French, English and German.

To be able to carry out this transformation, Eurosport has had to hire sports events that could be registered by cameras whose resolution is compatible with that of HDTV.



Eurosport HD

(SatCesc, 26/05/08)