Euro 1080 was the first channel of satellite television in high definition that it expressed in Europe. His first transmissions were across the satellites Astra in 19,2nd East and 23,3rd East, and also in 7th East of Eutelsat W3A.

Now 23,5th East of Astra announces the cessation of his emission to itself on September 30, 2008 across. In fact, this Astra abandonment takes place with ten months of delay with regard to the due plans, given that he announced initially his cessation to himself by the beginnings of the year. Thus the promotional channels HD 1 and HD 3 (names of the channels of the project Euro 1080) will stop definitely his transmissions in the Astra satellite in 23,5th East.

The channels will be only available in MPEG-4 for 7th East of Eutelsat W3A.

The more and more well-known presence of channels in high definition in Europe has endured that the persons in charge of Euro 1080 have decided not to "plant" facing the competition and express for only one satellite.

These channels of Euro 1080 are distributed commercially only in Belgium across Numericable, Unsay, Belgacom and Telenet.


(SatCesc, 24/09/08)