CanalSat , the French satellite platform , has announced that all its wide range of channels broadcast in high-definition television from the month of June 2015.

The aim of CanalSat is to transfer all their signals to MPEG -4 digital compression. This standard will allow its satellite platform economize resources , ie can exploit to offer new services . This current also disappear channels broadcasting in standard definition ( SD ) .

In fact long since CanalSat working on this idea to offer all channels in high definition (HD ) . It is hoped that their subscribers will not have to pay more for access to its contents , but yes , it will be necessary to adapt or replace decoders, depending on each case .

All this may be possible by various agreements with channels that offer , such as those achieved in the time between Canal + France and TF1 that led to CanalSat can offer their subscribers some channels owned by French commercial broadcaster TF1 and M6 HD . Also from Disney and so gradually the rest.

CanalSat distributes its range of HDTV via the orbital position of 19.2 degrees East of Astra .