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SBS World Movies Channel Broadcast on Free-to-Air in HD

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SBS World Movies Channel Broadcast on Free-to-Air in HD
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APN Adelaide on 06/05/2019 - 15:13 sbs.com.au (3800 clicks)
Last edited 14/12/2023 - 11:51 by 2 other users

The dedicated 24-hour channel will feature a diverse range of movies reaching all corners of the globe, building on SBS’s long legacy as the home of distinctive and multilingual films.
SBS will be bringing a channel dedicated to international cinema to all Australians with the launch of SBS World Movies free-to-air and in HD, from 1 July 2019.

The channel will broadcast more than 700 films each year

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      • Zylam Marex on 06/05/2019 - 17:17

        Yeah, I believe there just isn't a perfect solution yet. Best I've managed is to use a TV tuner card on my computer and a cheap antenna with varying degrees of success. Really can't wait for an all internet solution, I really miss the TV days where you'd look around to see if something good was on :D!

        • spackbace on 06/05/2019 - 17:18
          +1

          I would've thought the apps would give you better quality than the tv tuner card, showing most shows, just not all

          • Zylam Marex on 06/05/2019 - 17:21

            @spackbace: Yeah, I would too, it might be my devices but I've never managed to get more than standard definition out of the apps. It might be that widevine level stuff people always talk about.

  • luffyex2010 on 06/05/2019 - 17:17
    +1

    French movies are pretty interesting…first time when I watch them it's pretty culture shock for me but it's different today I can understand better their artistic porn sorry I meant works.

  • joshka on 06/05/2019 - 18:30
    +5

    Thank you so much for posting this OP. I love SBS. :-)

  • kgb007 on 06/05/2019 - 18:31
    -8

    Belongs in forums. Should we advertise other free to air channels?

    • Rimzi on 06/05/2019 - 19:00

      If another free to air tv channel also broadcasts 24hrs of over 700 films a year.. then sure!

      • RSmith on 06/05/2019 - 19:06
        -3

        Don't assume everyone is interested in films.

  • tess1988 on 06/05/2019 - 18:45

    Will it be on Foxtel?

    • et tu brute on 30/05/2019 - 11:20
      +1

      No. SBS's "World Movies Channel" exited Foxtel a few years back when Foxtel bumped up their transmission charges to make it uneconomic to continue. They (Foxtel) have done this a few times over the years (Ovation Chanel was replaced with their own Arts Channel). These were low traffic channels anyway, and for SBS I think it was a costly exercise from the beginning.
      It would appear that the new channel will be a rebirth of the old World Movie Channel that was on Foxtel. Properly marketed , the new channel should reach a greater audience than it ever did on Foxtel.

      I can't confirm, and accept I may be corrected on this.

      Cheers :)

  • dynaflow on 06/05/2019 - 18:46
    +1

    No it doesn't,it belongs here because it's a BARGAIN….because it's FREE!!

  • markb28 on 06/05/2019 - 19:00
    +5

    This channel isn't for everyone but if you're into World movies in various languages SBS curate quite a number of good movies, been watching SBS foreign movies for a few years. Glad they have a channel now. SBS are quite unique as they also translate and subtitle movies they buy - I don't think anyone else does this so some of them are pretty obscure. When I was in the UK, we didn't have a similar world movies channel to the Foxtel one either, Sky movies in the UK was rubbish and the BBC/C4 just don't dedicate as much time to foreign movies.

    Bring it on.

  • DavRo on 06/05/2019 - 19:28

    Wish in Europe the taxpayers could afford to do this sort of thing. Something in English there would have been great.

  • tempura on 06/05/2019 - 19:53

    Perfect for my 4K Television

  • CC123 on 06/05/2019 - 21:00

    Damn, this is pretty good… might actually watch Tv for once…

  • littlegreenman on 06/05/2019 - 21:10
    -4

    Next bargain: air you breathe because it's free.

    Technically this isn't even free. It's funded via taxes, unlike the air which is really free.

    • Rimzi on 06/05/2019 - 22:04

      So is the sidewalk, but it doesn’t cost you to walk on it.

      • MementoMori on 07/05/2019 - 14:57
        +2

        Is that the same thing as a footpath we refer to in Australian English?

        • Rimzi on 16/05/2019 - 08:12

          Ah yes. Footpath. Don't know where sidewalk came from haha

  • Oatmeal on 06/05/2019 - 21:15

    This sounds great but, as others have mentioned, SBS has only so much bandwidth to share between its channels. How good will this channel look and how will it affect their existing channels? It would be interesting if they were able to screen high bit rate versions of their films at certain off peak times. This way the other channels would be less affected during peak times while those people that valued image quality could watch at the off-peak times.

    • BiotBargin on 06/05/2019 - 22:30
      +1

      Viceland SD (MPEG-2) is being scrapped freeing up CH32 for World Movies HD (H264) - thats some of the bandwidth, the rest relies on H264 and not all channels needing maximum bandwidth at the same time.

      • Oatmeal on 07/05/2019 - 07:08

        This is good news. I'm definitely feeling happier about this now. Thanks.

  • imurgod on 07/05/2019 - 07:47

    Nice one, OP.

  • Bandit74 on 07/05/2019 - 10:12
    +2

    SBS - Sex Before Soccer

    • et tu brute on 30/05/2019 - 11:26

      Haven't heard SBS referred to that for some years now. I have been watching SBS TV since day 1 in 1980 and I think "Soccer Before Sex" (as it was referred to backed then) dropped out of the lexicon in the early noughties (pardon the pun).

  • JTTheMan on 07/05/2019 - 14:55
    +1

    SBS is awesome for a free-to-air channel, there's actual quality programs on most of their channels.

    I was just channel surfing the other day and saw they were playing Babel. It's the fish time in years I've been able to watch a decent movie apart from Netflix and other online sources.

    • g12345567 on 07/05/2019 - 15:19
      +1

      Since 7Food Network started and grabbed most of the programs from SBS. SBS Food has gone way down hill. Mostly its just endless repeats of The Cook and The Chef. With a few other shows sprinkled here and there.

      • voter1 on 08/05/2019 - 00:37
        +2

        I think the justification there was that sbs food was grabbing those shows basically for free and channel 7 realized that gap and decided to pay a bit more and poach all their stuff.

        So now sbs is going in a direction where channel 7/9/10 doesnt dare follow - getting cheap overseas movies.

  • MementoMori on 07/05/2019 - 15:23
    -1

    I wish a portion of my income wasn't forcibly taken from me to pay for this thing I don't use

    • JTTheMan on 07/05/2019 - 16:51
      +4

      Well that's not how a democracy is supposed to work.

      A portion of your income is used for the benefit of the majority. It's not about you, it's about everyone! This is why we alternate from one hopeless party to the other hopeless party every four years, because they tell YOU what YOU want to hear until they are elected. Vote for the benefit of everyone and eventually you will benefit too.

      • Wardaddy on 11/05/2019 - 10:36

        Actually, that is how democracy is supposed to work. User pays. What you're describing is socialism, which has never worked.

        • petry on 11/05/2019 - 10:39

          actually democracy is not linked at all directly in that way… and its clearly failed as well.

          • Wardaddy on 11/05/2019 - 10:40

            @petry: Democracy has failed? You've made yourself look foolish.

            • petry on 11/05/2019 - 10:43

              @Wardaddy: no-one votes anymore unless they are legally required or threatened - that's a fact.

              • Wardaddy on 11/05/2019 - 10:45

                @petry: Voting is not compulsory in USA or UK, but the elections still go on. But I'll agree that if voting were not compulsory in Australia Labor would never get back in again.

                • petry on 11/05/2019 - 12:24

                  @Wardaddy: both countries despite being aware of reducing voter participation - which in itself is a sign of dissatisfaction with the democratic process- have implemented swathes of legislation disqualifying native born people from being able to vote, in addition to those changes making it even more difficult to vote.

                  democracy cannot be said to be working when even certain native born people are deliberately prevented from having a vote.

                  • Wardaddy on 11/05/2019 - 13:31

                    @petry: Your assertions are simply untrue, nobody is prevented from voting. And voter participation is down because millenials are too lazy and apathetic to vote. That was proven convincingly with Brexit. Your obviously on some kind of crusade to try to prove that democracy doesn't work, so what is your alternative? A dictatorship? Let me guess, with you calling the shots?

                    • petry on 11/05/2019 - 13:57

                      @Wardaddy: Your ignorance is no excuse for calling me names implicitly. I'm not on any crusade either.

                      I suggest you look up pre brexit voting changes by Ms May's Home Office for the facts on English voting eligibility especially for Brexit.

                      Of course you are not interested in facts only name calling anyone who doesn't agree with your take on politics.

                      It was the liberals who introduced Border tax - effectively another 10% gst slug - a regressive tax designed to help fund the latest budget, and skew domestic markets on an island nation. Bizarre how the tv ads omit that….

                      Maybe readup 'The plans followed a court battle spearheaded by the second world war veteran Harry Shindler, who fought in the Battle of Anzio in Italy in 1944. The 95-year-old, who moved to Italy to be near his grandson in 1982, has been unable to vote in the UK since 1997 but cannot vote in Italy either…
                      the constitution minister Chris Skidmore assured Shindler and …….promised “this (tory )government will not deny them the opportunity to have their say in how the country is governed”. He also revealed that the government estimated “a further 3 million British citizens resident overseas will be enfranchised”.

                      Another broken promise by May's tory government… brexit was a triumph of vote manipulation.

                      • Wardaddy on 12/05/2019 - 07:45

                        @petry: Please feel free to continue your socialist rant, I'm done with you. Your comments are irrelevant to the issue that was being discussed, and show that your only interest is in attacking democracy and capitalism.

                        • petry on 12/05/2019 - 10:06

                          @Wardaddy: the only person who has used the word socialism is you - you clearly see socialism as the root of all evil while trotting out ignorant unfounded attacks against anyone who expresses a different view to you.

    • et tu brute on 30/05/2019 - 11:43
      +2

      Yeh, well as a pacifist, s portion of my income (taxes) is used to pay for price escalating stealth fighters, sub-standard, undermanned submarines and politicians perks. I don't get any use out of those.

      In a liberal democracy, our taxes are for the benefit of the herd. They are meant to benefit us all whether we use them or not.

      To take your specious argument, that is why we are not offered the benefit of cherry picking what we want and what we don't use.

      A fit and healthy person may not need a hospital now, however if they became sick or injured tomorrow, would it be fair if they opted in at that moment for these services (Ambulance, hospital etc), and then opt out later when they are well again?

      Also, without SBS (or the ABC) providing a publicly funded independent news service, would most Australians appreciate receiving their news from Newscorp, or Google, Facebook et al aggregating news for us to consume.

      Good luck sorting out you utopian ideals ;)

  • Torrente on 08/05/2019 - 15:08
    +2

    Me alegra que ahora puedas disfrutar de mis películas.

  • paulaus on 25/05/2019 - 22:31
    -1

    Ah the sex before soccer movies.

  • [Deactivated] on 28/05/2019 - 08:56
    -1

    Not much they can broadcast during daytime.

  • INFIDEL on 20/01/2020 - 20:38
    +2

    Studio Ghibli films have been enjoyable to watch for free!

    People get excited when they are included in paid subscription with Netflix!

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