HBO Hits, the Glossary
HBO Hits is a Southeast Asian multiplex channel owned by HBO Asia, launched on 16 March 2006, which features Hollywood blockbuster movies of various genres.[1]
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38 relations: A24, Anamorphic widescreen, Astro (company), Cartoon Network (Asian TV channel), Cartoonito (Asian TV channel), Castle Rock Entertainment, Cinemax (Asian TV channel), CNN International, HBO Asia, HBO Family (Asian TV channel), HBO Films, HBO Go, HBO Signature (Asian TV channel), High-definition television, Hindi, Home Box Office, Inc., Letterboxing (filming), Lionsgate Films, Major film studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Multiplex (television), NBCUniversal, New Line Cinema, Paramount Global, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Regency Enterprises, Singapore, Sony Pictures, Standard-definition television, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Discovery, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Independent Pictures, Warner TV, 1080i, 16:9 aspect ratio, 576i.
- HBO
- Movie channels in Singapore
- Movie channels in the Philippines
- Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
A24
A24 Films LLC, commonly referred to as A24, is an American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production, as well as film distribution.
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Anamorphic widescreen
Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a comparatively wide widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 standard-definition frame, for example) with a narrower aspect ratio, reducing the horizontal resolution of the image while keeping its full original vertical resolution.
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Astro (company)
All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator, doing business as Astro (stylized in lowercase title), is a Malaysian satellite television, streaming television and IPTV provider.
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Cartoon Network (Asian TV channel)
Cartoon Network is a pan-Asian television channel that primarily broadcasts animated series. HBO Hits and Cartoon Network (Asian TV channel) are Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.
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Cartoonito (Asian TV channel)
Cartoonito (visually rendered in all capital letters) is a pan-Asian cable and satellite television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division. HBO Hits and Cartoonito (Asian TV channel) are Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.
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Castle Rock Entertainment
Castle Rock Entertainment is an American independent film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn.
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Cinemax (Asian TV channel)
Cinemax Asia is a pan-Asian pay television channel. HBO Hits and Cinemax (Asian TV channel) are HBO, movie channels in Singapore, movie channels in the Philippines, television station stubs and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.
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CNN International
Cable News Network International or CNN International (CNNi, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel and website, owned by CNN Worldwide.
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HBO Asia
HBO Asia is the Asian division of HBO, based out of Singapore. HBO Hits and HBO Asia are HBO, movie channels in Singapore, movie channels in the Philippines and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.
HBO Family (Asian TV channel)
HBO Family is a Southeast Asian pay television channel owned by HBO Asia, launched on 16 March 2006, together with HBO Hits. HBO Hits and HBO Family (Asian TV channel) are HBO, movie channels in the Philippines, television channels and stations established in 2006, television station stubs and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.
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HBO Films
HBO Films (formerly called HBO Premiere Films and HBO Pictures) is an American production and distribution company, a division of the cable television network HBO that produces feature films and miniseries. HBO Hits and HBO Films are HBO.
HBO Go
HBO Go is an authenticated video-on-demand streaming system of the pay television service HBO, now serving only the Southeast Asian region at least until late 2024. HBO Hits and HBO Go are HBO.
HBO Signature (Asian TV channel)
HBO Signature is a Southeast Asian pay television network owned by HBO Asia featuring Hollywood blockbuster movies, regardless of genre. HBO Hits and HBO Signature (Asian TV channel) are HBO, movie channels in Singapore, television station stubs and Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific.
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High-definition television
High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Home Box Office, Inc.
Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) is an American multinational media and entertainment company operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Letterboxing (filming)
Letter-boxing is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.
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Lionsgate Films
Lionsgate Films (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is a Canadian-American film production and distribution studio founded in Canada in 1962.
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Major film studios
Major film studios are production and distribution companies that release a substantial number of films annually and consistently command a significant share of box office revenue in a given market.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Multiplex (television)
A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.
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NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and doing business as simply NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is a subsidiary of Comcast and is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
New Line Cinema
New Line Productions, Inc., doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
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Paramount Global
Paramount Global (also known simply as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan.
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.
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Paramount Vantage
Paramount Vantage, Inc. (formerly known as Paramount Classics, Inc.) was a film production label of Paramount Pictures (which, in turn, has Paramount Global as its parent company), charged with producing, purchasing, distributing and marketing films, generally those with a more "art house" feel than films made and distributed by its parent company.
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Regency Enterprises
Regency Enterprises is an American-British-Luxembourgish entertainment company formed by Arnon Milchan.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.
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Standard-definition television
Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition.
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Universal Pictures
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.
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Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros.
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Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros.
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Warner Independent Pictures
Warner Independent Pictures was an independent film division of the American film studio Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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Warner TV
Warner TV is a pay television channel mainly airing in Latin America, Europe, parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its International unit that focuses on airing American series and films.
1080i
1080i (also known as BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type.
16:9 aspect ratio
16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.
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576i
576i is a standard-definition digital video mode, originally used for digitizing analogue television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz.
See also
HBO
- Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion
- Cinemax
- Cinemax (Asian TV channel)
- Festival (TV channel)
- HBO
- HBO (Canadian TV channel)
- HBO Asia
- HBO Brasil
- HBO Documentary Films
- HBO Europe
- HBO Family (Asian TV channel)
- HBO Films
- HBO Go
- HBO Hits
- HBO Latin America Group
- HBO Netherlands
- HBO Now
- HBO Portugal
- HBO Signature (Asian TV channel)
- HBO Sports
- History of HBO
- List of HBO Latin America original series
- List of HBO international channels
- List of HBO original programming
- Picturehouse (company)
- Red by HBO
- Summer Solstice (1981 film)
- Talent Associates
- The HBO Voyeur Project
- Time Life Television
- TriStar Pictures
- XHBO-TDT
Movie channels in Singapore
- Cinemax (Asian TV channel)
- Fox Action Movies
- Fox Family Movies
- Fox Movies (Southeast Asian TV channel)
- HBO Asia
- HBO Hits
- HBO Signature (Asian TV channel)
- Red by HBO
- Star Chinese Movies
Movie channels in the Philippines
- Cine Mo!
- Cinema One
- Cinemax (Asian TV channel)
- Fox Action Movies
- Fox Family Movies
- Fox Movies (Southeast Asian TV channel)
- HBO Asia
- HBO Family (Asian TV channel)
- HBO Hits
- I Heart Movies
- K Movies Pinoy
- Kapamilya Box Office
- Movie Central (Philippine TV channel)
- My Movie Channel
- Pinoy Box Office
- Red by HBO
- SolarFlix
- Tag (TV channel)
- Tagalized Movie Channel
- Thrill (TV channel)
- Zee Sine
Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
- 9Rush
- Animal Planet (Australia and New Zealand)
- Asian Food Network
- Boomerang (Asian TV channel)
- Boomerang (Australian TV channel)
- Bravo (New Zealand TV channel)
- CNN Indonesia
- CNN International Asia Pacific
- CNN Philippines
- Cartoon Network (Asian TV channel)
- Cartoon Network (Australian and New Zealand TV channel)
- Cartoon Network (Indian TV channel)
- Cartoon Network (Japanese TV channel)
- Cartoon Network (Philippine TV channel)
- Cartoon Network (South Korean TV channel)
- Cartoonito (Asian TV channel)
- Cartoonito (South Korean TV channel)
- China Entertainment Television
- Cinemax (Asian TV channel)
- DMAX (Asian TV channel)
- Discovery Asia
- Discovery Channel (Australia and New Zealand)
- Discovery Home & Health (Southeast Asian TV channel)
- Discovery Kids (Australian TV channel)
- Discovery Science (Asian TV channel)
- Eden (New Zealand TV channel)
- Food Network (Asian TV channel)
- HBO Asia
- HBO Family (Asian TV channel)
- HBO Hits
- HBO Signature (Asian TV channel)
- Living (New Zealand)
- Oh!K
- Pogo (TV channel)
- Red by HBO
- Rush (TV channel)
- Sunny Saha
- TLC (Australian TV channel)
- Three (TV channel)
- ThreeNow
- TruTV (Southeast Asian TV channel)
- Turner Broadcasting System India
- Turner Classic Movies (Asian TV channel)
- Turner Japan
- Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
- Warner Bros. Discovery India
- Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand
- World Heritage Channel