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"The Flintstones", "My Gal", "Batman - Forever" were screened on TVB Pearl
in last 2 weeks,
"Speed" is coming soon (we don't have to pay).

The Two Free-to-air English TV channels in Hong Kong...

TVB Pearl (UHF channel 25)
ATV World (UHF channel 27)

Sorry, no on-line schedule for ATV World... (ATV only provide on-line TV
schedule for their Chinese Channel)

TVB Peral prime-time program schedule from 31th July to 10th Aug

31/7 9:30pm "GunCrazy", US Drama "Senfield" at 11:40pm (commercial free),
US Drama "NYPE Blue" at 12:45am (commercial free), US Drama "Babylon 5" at
1:35am (commercial free)

(Dramas are skip from this point)
1/8   9:30pm "Good Morning, Vietnam", 2am "Double Exposure"

2/8 12:15pm "Betrayed By Love" (commercial free), 1:45pm "The Pink Panther"
(commercial free), 9:30pm "Radio Flyer", 12:10am "out of Darkness"
(commercial free), 1:50am "Ebbtide" (Commercial free)

3/8 2pm "The Amy Fisher Story", 9:30pm "The Flintstones"

4/8 9:30pm "Christopher columbus The Discovery" and US Drama "The X-files"
at 12:55am (commercial free)

5/8 9:30pm "Cool As Ice", US Drama "The X-files" at 12:30am (commercial
free)

6/8 9:30pm "K-9"

7/8 9:30pm "Parenthood"

8/8 9:30pm "Cage II", 1:40am "Three Days of the condor"

9/8 12:15pm "American Anthem", 2pm "Firestorm: 72 hours in Oakland", 9:30pm
"Hayao Miyazakl's collection: Pon Poco" (Japanese Animation movie), 12:15am
"Cat's Eye", 1:55am "Death Wish"

10/8 9:30pm "Victory"(1995)


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> > William Lau wrote:
> > 
> > > I totally agree with you!!
> > >
> > > TV Fan <hkcd@hotmail.com> ���g�J��D�D
> > > <01bc926c$5025a960$35768bd0@supervisor>...
> > > > 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!!!!

"Pulp fiction" was first run on free-to-air tv in Hong Kong in December
last year!


> > > >
> > > > 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 was shock to learn that we are so lucky to have so many new movies
> > on air free.
> > But I still have some opinions on the movies on air,  I love to see the
> > movies, but I hate the bilingual translations, it just waste the
digital
> > stereo channel. As most movies have chinese captions already, the
> > chinese sound translation can be avoided, and I don't think much of us
> > will like to listen to such chinese translations.
> > 
> > Without such chinese translation, we have a sound channel spare and we
> > can broastcast in original stereo sound, and in most cases, with Dolby
> > surround encoded.  This is absolutely possible because I have already
> > tried it (the Willow and the Emperor of the sun), It gives much more
> > pleasure to watch movies with surround sound than mono sound.
> > 
> > Also, I hope the movies can be broastcasted in letter box format than
> > the pan and scan format.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Nigel LAM
> > [nigellam@hkstar.com]
> > 
> > 
> > 
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