Archive notice: This article was originally published on May 18, 2006. Links and embedded videos are preserved as part of the historical record.
SES Astra has signed another contract for the broadcast of an HDTV channel. Effective immediately, Anixe TV is broadcasting the German program Anixe HD unencrypted via the main orbital position 19,2° East. The feature-film and entertainment channel broadcasts in the high-resolution HDTV standard in DVB-S2 and MPEG-4 AVC.
Anixe HD promises to broadcast exclusively image material that was either originally produced in HD 1920 x 1080i or comes from 35-mm film. The accompanying sound runs in the Dolby Digital 5.1 multichannel sound format.
Viewers had already been able to receive a forerunner of the program as a program loop since April 1, 2006.
Anixe TV from Mannheim has on the operation of digital niche channels
specialized. The company gained experience with the travel-shopping channel
“lastminute.tv” and the music channel “musikpark.tv”. The in-house
broadcast department developed the specific playouts.
Further links:
- Anixe HD
