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<font color=cc0000>EXCLUSIVE:</font> Summer premier for widescreen Sky Movies
Published Monday, Feb 24 2003, 11:30 GMT | By Iain Chapman
Digital Spy has learnt that Sky is planning to convert all of its movies channels to widescreen.
The news follows the recent announcement that all of the pay-per-view Sky Box Office movie channels will become widescreen from April.
The Sky Movies channels are expected to follow suit from summer 2003, showing movies in the widescreen format where available.
Sources also tell us that the naming of the Sky Movies channels is again being reviewed, with Sky keen to drop the tag names of Premier, Movie Max and Cinema, instead going for a simple structure of calling the channels Sky Movies 1 through 12. Contracts with the various movie studios currently appear to restrict Sky from being able to do this.
The news follows the recent announcement that all of the pay-per-view Sky Box Office movie channels will become widescreen from April.
The Sky Movies channels are expected to follow suit from summer 2003, showing movies in the widescreen format where available.
Sources also tell us that the naming of the Sky Movies channels is again being reviewed, with Sky keen to drop the tag names of Premier, Movie Max and Cinema, instead going for a simple structure of calling the channels Sky Movies 1 through 12. Contracts with the various movie studios currently appear to restrict Sky from being able to do this.
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