Are most Sky+ movies in DD5.1 or not?

I have recently ordered a Sky+ package as I was attracted by its claim
of DD5.1 on the movie channels. But I have just read the following in
some FAQ's :

The Dolby Digital movies are shown on Sky Premier 1,2 & 3 and are
broadcast with five separate audio channels. DD5.1 has now been removed
from Sky Box Office channels because Sky say "more people would benefit
from having it on the main Movie channels".

Is the above still correct, can I only enjoy DD5.1 if I pay for any of
the pay as you view channels?

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I have recently ordered a Sky+ package as I was attracted by its claim
of DD5.1 on the movie channels. But I have just read the following in
some FAQ's :

The Dolby Digital movies are shown on Sky Premier 1,2 & 3 and are
broadcast with five separate audio channels. DD5.1 has now been removed
from Sky Box Office channels because Sky say "more people would benefit
from having it on the main Movie channels".

OK, so Sky Box Office is the pay-per view channels; you state that DD5.1 has
been removed from these, so as more people can enjoy it on Sky Premier

Is the above still correct, can I only enjoy DD5.1 if I pay for any of
the pay as you view channels?

That would contradict your statement above!

Alan

Peter wrote:

Is the above still correct, can I only enjoy DD5.1 if I pay for any of
the pay as you view channels?

It's the other way around.

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As you stated Sky movies 1, 2 and 3 can now transmit 5.1 broadcasts, this
does not mean that all films shown on these channels are encoded like this.
Look at the programme synopsis and if the letters DD are displayed its 5.1,
most others are DS, Dolby surround. A sky techy told me that the Disney
channel also runs the occasional program in 5.1

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"Peter" ] wrote in message
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I have recently ordered a Sky+ package as I was attracted by its claim
of DD5.1 on the movie channels. But I have just read the following in
some FAQ's :

The Dolby Digital movies are shown on Sky Premier 1,2 & 3 and are
broadcast with five separate audio channels. DD5.1 has now been removed
from Sky Box Office channels because Sky say "more people would benefit
from having it on the main Movie channels".

Is the above still correct, can I only enjoy DD5.1 if I pay for any of
the pay as you view channels?

Regards,
--
Peter


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Hello Jomtien,

You wrote:

Peter wrote:

Is the above still correct, can I only enjoy DD5.1 if I pay for any of
the pay as you view channels?

It's the other way around.

Thank goodness for that. I thought I was pretty good at English until I
tried to understand the written statement :-)
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:13:03 -0000, Shrek wrote:

As you stated Sky movies 1, 2 and 3 can now transmit 5.1 broadcasts, this
does not mean that all films shown on these channels are encoded like this.
Look at the programme synopsis and if the letters DD are displayed its 5.1,
most others are DS, Dolby surround. A sky techy told me that the Disney
channel also runs the occasional program in 5.1

Anyone know of any plans to extend DD 5.1 to other channels (presumably
other movie channels initially)?

Having bought Sky+ I added Movies Premier (as it was then) to my
subscription, as this gave three channels with DD 5.1. I'd perhaps have
gone the whole hog if MovieMax also had this functionality. A month
later they reorganised the movie channels such that I could only receive
two of the three DD enabled channels. I'm not going to add Movies 'Even'
(or whatever it's called!) to my package just for the sake of this one
channel.

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