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Sky Movies is a group of subscription television movie channels in New Zealand operated by Sky Network Television. Sky Movies was started in 1990 as one of the original channels on the Sky UHF Service. Sky Movies has progressed from the original channel (now known as Sky Movies Premiere) in 1990 to six separate movie channels screening special interest movies, today. All Sky Movies channels are simulcasted in high definition. ==History== The original Sky Movies channel was started in 1990 when Sky Television first launched originally only playing movies during afternoons and evenings. 24-hour programming did not start until later in the nineties. In 1993, Sky Television sold the channel to HBO Asia. It became known as HBO but later reverted to its former name Sky Movies, after HBO Asia re-sold the channel to Sky Television. NICAM stereo broadcasting was available on the UHF channel until around 1998 when Sky launched their digital service. All current Sky Movie channels broadcast in at least stereo sound. A second movie channel Sky Movie Max was released in 1998 after Sky launched their digital satellite service. All future Sky Movie channels that were launched were available on the Sky Digital platform only, the original movie channel was the only channel to ever broadcast on the now discontinued UHF analogue service. Sky Movies Max broadcast in widescreen 16:9 format from 2002 onwards. Sky Movies also broadcast in widescreen 16:9 format on Sky Digital from 1 January 2005 onwards however continued to broadcast in 4:3 on the UHF service. Sky Movies was renamed to Sky Movies 1 in 2004 and Sky Movies Max was renamed to Sky Movies 2. Sky Movies 1 reverted to the Sky Movies name in 2007 following the launch of Sky Movies Greats at the same time Sky Movies 2 became a time shift channel, screening the same movies as Sky Movies just 2 hours behind. Sky Movies 2 remained a time shift channel until 2013. In 2008 Sky launched the HD service called MySky HD, as a result some Sky Movie channels became available in High Definition. To receive Sky Movies channels in HD the Sky subscriber is required to upgrade his or her Sky decoder to a MySky HD decoder, the subscriber must also pay a monthly fee for an HD access ticket which allows the subscriber to receive selected Sky channels in High Definition. Sky Movies Premiere, Sky Movies Extra, Sky Movies Greats and Sky Movies Family broadcast in HD. On 1 November 2013 Sky rebranded their movie channel line-up with new logos. The original Sky Movies channel became Sky Movies Premiere and Sky Movies 2 became Sky Movies Extra, an additional channel Sky Movies Action was also introduced.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SKY refreshes its movie branding and adds two new channels )〕 On 7 May 2015 Sky and The Walt Disney Company announced the launch of Sky Movies Disney, dedicated to Disney family movies launching 1 July 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SKY and Disney announce expanded relationship )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sky Movies (New Zealand)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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