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Article #101Re: Hong Kong TV viewers are very very lucky
From: K
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00
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TV Fan wrote: > > Do you know that.... The two free-to-air English TV stations in Hong Kong > put on great movies every night!!!! > Many of these moives are still only available on Laser Disc / Video tape / > Pay-TV in other countries, that means, you have to PAY!!!! > After cinema showing, then a movie will go to free-to-air TV 4 months (at > least) till 3 years (at most) later. > > "Madonna - the girlie show", first run in Nov, 1993 on TVB Pearl while she > was still in Australia. LD/Video was released in June, 1994. VideoCD was > released in June, 1997. > > "From Dusk Till Dawn", first run in June 1997 on ATV World. The video is > still on the "new release" counter in vidoe rental shops in UK & Australia. > (No Laser Disc in UK & Australia). It is also avialable on Cable TV in > US... but not free-to-air TV. > > "Strictly Ballroom", first run in June 1993 on ATV World, Hong Kong > official LD release date: August, 1993... is it ridiculous??? > > "Hellraiser 3", first run in Aug, 1993 on TVB Pearl, released on Video in > Australia in May, 1994. > > "Heavenly Creature", first run in Apirl 1996 on ATV World, UK video release > date: March, 1997 > > "Murial's Wedding", first run in Nov, 1996 on ATV World. > > "The Usual Suspect", "Murder on the first", "Jurassic Park", "The Piano", > "The Man without a face", "Foever Young", "Far & Away", "Damage", "Die Hard > 3", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "Ace Ventuna - Pet Detective", "Stargate", > "Star Trek 6".... > > God, you have to pay if you are not in Hong Kong!!!! > > So, if you are one of the typical Hong Kong citizens, only watching > Cantonese dramas on the two free-to-air Cantonese Stations... > Poor boys, you miss a lot!!! > > Don't miss "Batman - Forever" coming Saturday on TVB Pearl.. > "the x-files" now re-run after mid-night, from Monday - Friday... > > In other countries, only dated movies on Sunday night & terrible TV soap > available on free-to-air TV I got that is "Batman Returns"(�����L�A�ԭ���) on coming Satuaday on TVB Pearl! Yeah! I was very suprised when "From Dusk Till Dawn" was shown on ATV World in June!! But the fastest and hottest movie channel I think is HBO on Cable TV!! --Ernest
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10e026,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid10e026,public X-Google-Thread: 1105bb,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid1105bb,public X-Google-Thread: 1137fc,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid1137fc,public X-Google-Thread: 1161fb,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid1161fb,public X-Google-Thread: 104660,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid104660,public X-Google-Thread: 108c16,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid108c16,public X-Google-Thread: 10a774,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid10a774,public X-Google-Thread: 105a81,f49f64cc44546f4b X-Google-Attributes: gid105a81,public From: K <badtzkei@netvigator.com> Subject: Re: Hong Kong TV viewers are very very lucky Date: 1997/07/17 Message-ID: <33CE1F73.7A00@netvigator.com> X-Deja-AN: 257446713 References: <01bc926c$5025a960$35768bd0@supervisor> Organization: "woo-hoo" to the end Reply-To: badtzkei@netvigator.com Newsgroups: alt.tv,aus.tv,de.alt.tv.misc,fj.rec.tv,hk.entertainment,hk.general,hk.rec.audio-visual,hk.rec.movies,no.radio-tv,sdnet.tv,sg.rec.tv,uk.media.tv.sf.startrek,uk.media.tv.sf.x-files