The channel was launched as C More HD on 1 September 2005. It was then the first HDTV channel targeting the Nordic countries broadcasting with MPEG-2 compression from the Thor 2 satellite and MPEG-4 with cable on the Canal Digital platform. The content consisted of three movies every evening. On 1 November 2006, it was rebranded as Canal HD and is now broadcasting H.264.
The Swedish cable distributor Com Hem launched HDTV on December 12th, 2006, and then included Canal HD in its offerings. In early February 2007, C More launched another HD channel. Canal HD was then renamed Canal Film HD and the new channel was named Canal Sport HD.
