Canal Digitaal Satelliet

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company_name = Canal Digitaal Satelliet
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location = flagicon|Netherlands Hilversum, Netherlands
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industry = Telecommunication
products = Direct broadcast satellite
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homepage = [http://www.canaldigitaal.nl/ canaldigitaal.nl]
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Canal Digitaal Satelliet is a provider of digital television via satellite for the Dutch market, using the Astra-1 satellites at 19.2°E and the Astra 3 satellite on 23.5°E.

Initially customers where mainly people in the Netherlands, who did not have cable access. But in the meantime the company also managed to expand into the cities, although that is complicated due to local building codes restricting the placement of satellite dishes. It is only possible to register as a customer of Canal Digitaal Satelliet using a Dutch postal address, due to copyright restrictions.

Canal Digitaal Satelliet is like the Belgium TV Vlaanderen Digitaal owned by Airbridge Investments and Providence Equity Partners. Whereby the last party has a controlling majority investment.

martcard

Unlike for example many German broadcasters, the Dutch public and commercial broadcasts are not freely available via satellite. To receive the Dutch broadcasts a smartcard is required to decrypt the Mediaguard 2 signal. The public broadcasts are free-to-view, the commercial broadcasts are not.

A standard DVB-S receiver is used, which can also receive other free-to-air broadcasts.

ee also

* Television in the Netherlands
* Digital television in the Netherlands

External links

* [http://www.canaldigitaal.nl Canal Digitaal Satelliet]