Astro Vellithirai
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| Country | Malaysia |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Malaysia |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Tamil |
| Picture format | 16:9 HDTV (1080i) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Astro Malaysia Holdings |
| Parent | Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn. Bhd. (Astro) |
| Sister channels | Astro Vaanavil Astro Vinmeen Astro Thangathirai |
| History | |
| Launched | 16 April 2007 (SD) (Malaysia) 14 April 2022 (HD) (Malaysia) |
| Founder | Ananda Krishnan |
| Closed | 1 July 2020 (Singapore) 14 April 2022 (SD) (Malaysia) |
Astro Vellithirai is a 24-hour Tamil language movie channel and also known as the Tamil version of the Asian HBO, showing the local and Kollywood movies.[1][2] The channel began its broadcast on 16 April 2007 on channel 74, and moved to channel 202 on 1 October of the same year due to channel renumbering. Most of the movies are available in English subtitles.
The channel is available for all Astro and NJOI customers.
References
[edit]- ^ "Redirecting to Astro What's on". Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ^ "Singtel TV : Channels & On Demand : Channels : CH624 Astro Vellithirai". Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
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