Euronews CEO Philippe Cayla believes it will be a while before the channel provider will offer news services in high definition (HD). Euronews is one of the most widely watched global news channels and is now present on many satellite TV platforms around the world.

“We have no plans, as we need to have the agencies using HD first,” Cayla told Satellite News. “So that is Reuters, VTU, ITN, EBU, etc. If they don’t produce HD pictures, we are not going to broadcast because we would need to [have]100 percent of our pictures in HD, in order to go with this. We cannot have half of the pictures in HD and the other half in [standard definition]. For news channels, we are at the end of the HD chain. You need other journalists using HD cameras all over the world for a news channel like us to be using HD.”

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