ZAP is a digital satellite television provider mainly for Portuguese-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

ZAP operates from the Eutelsat 36B satellite, placed over Africa at 36,0 degrees East, broadcasting in DVB-S2 in five Ku band transponders with MPEG-4 compression and Nagravision encryption.

[1] ZAP provides an unprecedented number of Portuguese-language channels for a region where Portuguese-speaking African countries account for more than 40 million people.

The "HD+" decodes the encrypted signal, provides an electronic programming guide, high definition image and 5.1 stereo sound.

The "HD+DVR" decoder provides the additional functionality of digital video recorder.