NonStop Filmfestival had to launch before the end of May and Showtime was allowed to continue broadcasting until the new channel started.

[1] NonStop Filmfestival was named "Silver" in April and could start broadcasting on May 26, 2006, during the Cannes Film Festival.

[2] Initially, the channel was only available in Sweden on the Boxer terrestrial platform and it wasn't available on from any other distributor until April 2, 2007, when it launched on the Swedish Com Hem cable network.

This launch occurred on April 16 and NonStop claimed that Silver was the first movie channel in Europe to be available on a mobile platform.

[5] After the launch on Canal Digital satellite, it has expanded to other cable networks such as LumoTV in Finland and Get in Norway.