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Sky Movies Rebrand To Sky Cinema

(June 2016)

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SO
TheSpotlightOnTV
With the name change, we will make everything more like your actually at a Cinema! http://emoticons4u.com/crazy/195.gif


What, half an hour of adverts before the film starts? You get that now.

A budget cut tea? http://emoticons4u.com/sad/171.gif
Last edited by TheSpotlightOnTV on 15 June 2016 7:37pm
LL
London Lite Founding member
With the name change, we will make everything more like your actually at a Cinema! http://emoticons4u.com/crazy/195.gif


What, half an hour of adverts before the film starts? You get that now.


I don't think it's 30 mins as some gaps are padded with film interviews, but they do blocks of ads with trails between.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Sky Movies used to have major buffer gaps between movies up until fairly recently but in recent years they've closed this quite significantly and now its the exception rather than the rule.

If they're going to make everything like at the cinema I want them to darken my room, give me popcorn and drop chewing gum all over my floor. And clean up when I've finished watching Wink
UK
UKnews
They can make it like the cinema as long as this is implemented:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/films/code_of_conduct.pdf

Wink
LL
London Lite Founding member
Sky Movies used to have major buffer gaps between movies up until fairly recently but in recent years they've closed this quite significantly and now its the exception rather than the rule.


I think at most it's around 10/12 mins these days including trails to bridge the gap. If there's filler such as a behind the scenes or an interview, they're on the EPG.
ST
Stuart
Further to my previous post . . . these were the options proposed for the 2nd set of tag lines we were asked to look at (which all included mention of Sky Movies).

From what I remember from the comments left, most in the group preferred these, and I certainly voted for the one they have chosen. Thumbs up

http://i64.tinypic.com/2vmak3b.jpg

I suppose it was a bit naughty to keep screen grabs, but I presumed they would let us out of the non-disclosure agreement once the re-launch was announced. Laughing

I thought it would be interesting for people on here to see what else they'd considered.
NG
noggin Founding member
From the press release:

"To improve the HD, Sky is using a new internal master format that provides a third more pixels and four times the number of colour shades of the current HD offered."

Movies on Sky already look pretty good in HD, didn't realise the current mastering has room for that amount of improvement.


I wonder if that means Sky were using 1440x1080 on their servers internally and have now switched to 1920x1080 (and also moved from 8-bit to 10-bit masters - though the latter is slightly moot until we get 10-bit broadcasts - which presumably HEVC on Sky UHD will support?)
harshy and Blake Connolly gave kudos
VM
VMPhil
So, if Sky Cinema is being used as a single name across all of Sky Plc, does this mean Sky Sports UK could see a rename to Sky Sport?
LL
London Lite Founding member
So, if Sky Cinema is being used as a single name across all of Sky Plc, does this mean Sky Sports UK could see a rename to Sky Sport?


And Sky TG24 as Sky News.
JA
JAS84
So, if Sky Cinema is being used as a single name across all of Sky Plc, does this mean Sky Sports UK could see a rename to Sky Sport?
Would make sense. The pluralisation is an Americanism anyway.
MD
mdtauk
JAS84 posted:
So, if Sky Cinema is being used as a single name across all of Sky Plc, does this mean Sky Sports UK could see a rename to Sky Sport?
Would make sense. The pluralisation is an Americanism anyway.


I thought it was because it shows more than one sport.

Also, Americans say Math where we say Maths. (again because we are taught more than one form of Mathematics)
BA
bilky asko
JAS84 posted:
So, if Sky Cinema is being used as a single name across all of Sky Plc, does this mean Sky Sports UK could see a rename to Sky Sport?
Would make sense. The pluralisation is an Americanism anyway.


Is there another plural for "sport" that I don't know about?

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