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On November 18, 2025, ZDF will discontinue SD broadcasting via satellite. ZDF, ZDFneo, ZDFinfo, 3sat, and KiKA will then be available exclusively in HD. The German TV Platform and ZVEI recommend private households and operators of communal facilities to check their reception devices in good time.

The termination of ARD's SD-quality broadcast via satellite has led to a special boom in the business of televisions and receivers ("set-top boxes") for HDTV reception. According to current figures from GfK, around 1.6 million TV sets were sold in the fourth quarter of 2024 – 6.2 percent more than in the same period of the previous year.