Star Chinese Movies
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Star Chinese Movies (Chinese: 衛視電影台) was a Chinese language pay television channel owned by Disney Networks Group Pacific Ltd. It features Chinese films.
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Picture format | HDTV 1080i (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed) |
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Owner | Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific |
Sister channels | Star Chinese Channel |
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Launched | 1 May 1994; 30 years ago (1994-05-01) |
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Replaced by | Phoenix Movies Channel (Southeast Asia and Mainland China) Catchplay Movie Channel (Taiwan) Astro AEC (Malaysia, Astro) |
Former names | Star Mandarin Movies (1 May 1994–31 March 1996) |
The channel mainly broadcasts Chinese-language films (including Chinese films, Cantonese films, Taiwanese films, Singaporean films, and Malaysian films), as well as bilingual Japanese films, Japanese animations (strip TV series and theatrical versions), Korean films, Thai films, etc., and will digitally restore some Hong Kong action films. It was known as the most widely distributed Chinese-language entertainment channel.[1]
On April 29, 2017, Star Chinese Movies provided bilingual services, and most of the movies were broadcast in Mandarin and original sound simultaneously.
In addition, they also obtained the pay TV broadcasting rights of the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards for Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia (except Singapore and Malaysia, in which sold to their local broadcaster).