Premiere realizes the increasing interest of his subscribers in the format of the television of high definition after stating that the emission to the format 16:9 in a great part of the channels of his offer has been received excellently by his clients.

The big boom of last months with the sale of TV sets with flat screens does not stop being an ideal solution for the viewers who can gain access to the format 16:9. For the prompt thing, the call of Premiere directed to the broadcasters so that they create television channels in high definition is not having the awaited answer. The publics ARD and ZDF already warned in his moment that up to the next decade they will not begin betting for the HD.

While, the German operator Premiere assures to have 120.000 subscribers to his meager and minimal offer of high definition. This number supposes approximately 10.000 more with regard to February, 2008.

These clients can enjoy the channels Premiere HD (movies and sports events) and Discovery Channel (documentary) HD.

The percentage of subscribers to Premiere who enjoy services in high definition is 2,6 %, since the payment platform relies on with an entire subscribers portfolio that it overcomes 4 millions.

Premiere offers his channels across the position 19,2nd East of the satellites Astra, using the system of conditional access Nagravisión.


(SatCesc, 01/09/08)