Owned by HBO Asia Pte Ltd | Country Singapore | |
Launched 16 March 2006 (2006-03-16) Closed September 2016 (2016-09)
(only for India) Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
(HD feed downscaled to letterboxed 480i for SDTVs) Slogan It's Not TV, It's HBO.
All hits. No misses. | ||
HBO Hits is a multiplex channel of HBO in Asia featuring Hollywood blockbuster movies, regardless of genre. It is available in nine territories: in Hong Kong via now TV, in Taiwan via Total TV, in the Philippines via the SkyCable Platinum plan, in Singapore via StarHub TV, in Nepal via Dish Home and Singtel TV (Coming Soon), in Indonesia via Indovision & First Media and in Sri Lanka via Dialog TV and PEO TV.
HBO Asia and Eros International launched HBO Hits and HBO Defined in India on 21 February 2010, HBO hits was rebranded as HBO HD in India in September 2016.
Programming
HBO hits Asia has licensing deals with two major Hollywood conglomerates and their film studios: Time Warner (Warner Bros. Pictures; New Line Cinema, HBO Films, Castle Rock Entertainment; Warner Independent Pictures, Franchise Pictures) and Viacom (Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks; Paramount Vantage). It also licenses movies from Columbia Pictures and many independent distributors such as Village Roadshow Pictures, Morgan Creek, Screen Gems and Universal Studios.