Sky Cinema (German TV channel)

Sky Cinema

Logo used since 2020
Country	Germany
Broadcast area	Germany Austria Switzerland
Programming
Picture format	576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Sky Deutschland
Sister channels	List of Sky Deutschland channels
History
Launched	February 1991

Sky Cinema is a German set of movie channels owned by Sky Deutschland.

The Sky Cinema package includes six Sky-branded channels:

• Sky Cinema Premiere, the premium channel with 20 television premieres per month.
• Sky Cinema Action with action, horror and sci-fi movies.
• Sky Cinema Family with various kinds of comedy and family movies.
• Sky Cinema Highlights with popular movies from the course of cinema history.
• Sky Cinema Special used for a pop up channel for an event
• Sky Cinema Classics with classic movies until present days.
• HD versions of all channels are available except for Sky Cinema Classics.
• Warner TV Film and Paramount+ are also offered free of charge.

Movies are broadcast in the 16:9 widescreen format with both German and original audio, when available. In order to watch movies in high-definition, payment is required for Sky HD, another set of programs. By booking this set, the channels fitting into the other booked sets, such as Sky Sport are decrypted as well.