In 2010, the premium Cinemax channel was converted into an ad-supported basic cable movie channel, while two new premium channels ( Max and Max HD ) followed Cinemax's league by airing independent films, European movies, etc.

Additionally, there is a public television service operated by Televiziunea Română with four channels ( TVR 1, TVR 2, TVR Cultural and TVR i ) and there are many localized or franchised international channels ( such as HBO, MTV, Cinemax, AXN, Cartoon Network ).

Cable TV is very cheap for all standards, the standard / basic service, offering about 50 channels, is around 20-30 RON / month including VAT ( about 7-10 €), with the most expensive service, offering 10-15 channels more, including some pay-per-view such as HBO or Cinemax, costing no more than 60-70 RON / month ( around 20-23 €).

DishOnline is Dish Network's subscriber-only streaming video service, which includes HBO and Cinemax programming.

* January 3 – The Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, USA, is broadcast.

Cinemax, sometimes abbreviated as simply " Max ", is a collection of premium television networks that broadcasts primarily feature films, along with softcore erotica, original action series, documentaries and special behind-the-scenes features.

Cinemax is operated by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Time Warner.

Cinemax launched on August 1, 1980 as HBO's answer to The Movie Channel ( at the time, The Movie Channel was owned by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, a joint venture between Time Warner predecessor Warner Communications and American Express ; that channel is now owned by CBS Corporation through its Showtime Networks unit ).

From 1992 to 1997, Cinemax aired one movie each day of the week that would be centered around a certain genre, represented by various pictures that would play in a specialized feature presentation bumper before the start of the movie ; the symbols included: Comedy ( represented by an abstract face made up of various movie props, with the mouth open to look like it is laughing ), Suspense ( represented by a running man silhouette ), Premiere ( represented by an exclamation point caught in spotlights ), Horror ( represented by a skull ), Drama ( represented by abstract comedy & tragedy masks ), Vanguard ( represented by a globe ), Action ( represented by a machine gun ) and Classic ( represented by a classic movie-era couple embracing and kissing ).

In February 2011, it was announced that Cinemax will begin to offer mainstream original programming to compete with sister channel HBO, and rivals Showtime and Starz ; the channel is slated to develop action-oriented original mainstream series aimed at males ages 18-49.

Cinemax On Demand is the video-on-demand counterpart to Cinemax.

It is available on most cable and satellite providers at no additional cost to subscribers of Cinemax.

It is available to Cinemax subscribers of AT & T Uverse, Cox Communications, DirecTV, Dish Network, Suddenlink Communications, and Charter Communications.

Because of the block's presence, Cinemax is most commonly given the jocular nickname outside the network, " Skinemax ".

Adult programming is not limited solely to the main Cinemax network: MoreMax also airs adult movies and series, sometimes airing an hour earlier than the main Cinemax channel would allow, airing at times as early as 10: 30 p. m.

In August 2011, Cinemax introduced a new logo in line with promotional efforts for Strike Back, with a diagonal-cut yellow line with uppercase black " CINEMAX " lettering ; only the " MAX " portion is used for Cinemax on Demand and Max Go ( for both services, a tilted black box is added next to the yellow / black " MAX " to fit either " OD " " on demand " or " GO "), along with the linear multiplex channels ( for the multiplex channels, the prefix titles for each channel are added before it with no line treatment ).

A European version of Cinemax is known as Cinemax 2.

Nyali is home for the Nyali Cinemax complex, Mamba Village, the Nyali Golf Club, and some of the most prestigious academic institutions of the Coast Province.

On September 13, 2010, Cinemax launched Max Go, a website which features 700 hours of content available for streaming in standard or high definition, at no additional charge to Cinemax subscribers.

Because the FCC's jurisdiction only covers channels broadcast on the publicly owned spectrum and not those only available on cable, restricted-access networks ( like the premium channels Cinemax and HBO, with shows such as Sex and the City, or adult channels Playboy TV and Spice using spectrum privately owned ) have taken considerably more leeway in their programming.

Kifisia is a famous recreational neighbourhood for people of all ages ( but mostly teenagers ) from all over Athens, because of its many available forms of entertainment ; the Cinemax Cinemas, the Kifisia Bowling Center, numerous more fashionable shopping malls, as well as many smaller designer shops and upmarket restaurants, bars and nightclubs.

Today, the various episodes of Emmanuelle in Space are generally available edited together into feature-length productions on DVD and occasionally show up on broadcasters such as Cinemax and on cable networks outside the U. S.

" The concert was filmed in one take and aired on Cinemax under the title Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night ; it was released on video by Virgin Records, selling 50, 000 copies.

Unlike HBO ( and most cable and over-the-air broadcast channels already on the air at the time it launched ), Cinemax broadcast 24 hours a day from the day it signed on the air ( HBO had only broadcast about nine hours of programming a day from 3 p. m. to midnight ET until September 1981, when it began broadcasting a 24-hour schedule on weekends until midnight ET on Sunday nights ; it did not start airing 24 hours on weekdays until December 28 of that year ).

During the network's first decade on the air, Cinemax had also aired some original music programming, during the mid-to-late 1980s, upon the meteoric rise in popularity of MTV, Cinemax tried its hand at airing music videos by airing an interstitial between films called Max Tracks, it also ran music specials under the banner Cinemax Sessions during that same time period.

The mid and late 1980s also saw Cinemax include a very limited amount of television series on its schedule including the sketch-comedy series Second City Television ( whose U. S. broadcast rights Cinemax had acquired from NBC in 1983 ) and the science fiction series Max Headroom ( which had also aired on ABC from 1987 to 1988 ).

Later on starting in 1992, Cinemax re-entered into the carriage of television series with the addition of adult-oriented scripted series similar in content to the adult films that are featured in the late night timeslots, such as the network's first original adult series Erotic Confessions, and later series entries such as Hot Line, Passion Cove, Lingerie and Co-Ed Confidential.

Upon their launches in 1998, Cinemax offered viewers " sneak preview " blocks of programming that could be seen on ActionMax and ThrillerMax in primetime on Saturdays and Sundays, respectively.

By the mid-2000s, the classic films from the 1960s and earlier that had been broadcast on Cinemax from its launch were relegated to some of its multiplex channels, and have become prominent on its multiplex service, 5StarMax.

Today, a large majority of mainstream films featured on Cinemax are from the 1990s to present, with some films from the 1970s and 1980s included on the schedule.

Cinemax also packages the East and West feeds of the primary and multiplex channels together, allowing viewers a second chance to watch the same program three hours later or earlier depending on their geographic location ( for West Coast viewers, this gives viewers a chance to see a program as it airs on the East Coast before it airs on the West Coast feed ).

Subscribers of DirecTV, Dish Network and some cable providers can get the Cinemax networks without subscribing to HBO, though most cable providers offer the two services and their respective multiplexes as a single package.

Starz and Encore were the first major premium channel competitors since The Movie Channel and Cinemax launched in 1979 and 1980, respectively ; as other premium channels that existed before the launch of the Starz and Encore channels including Home Theater Network and Spotlight were unable to compete against HBO and Showtime, and their aforementioned respective sister premium channels.

Channel i is programmes compete with StarHub TV pay channels such as CNN International News, BBC World News, CNBC Asia, Bloomberg Television, ESPN Asia, STAR Sports, STAR World, AXN Asia, HBO Asia, FOX Movies Premium, Cinemax Asia, Hallmark Channel Asia, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, TVRI ( Republic of Indonesia ) and RTM's TV1 ( Peninsular Malaysia ).

Animation, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment, all of which are owned by Cinemax corporate parent Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment division ), DreamWorks Animation ( which lasts until 2013, at which time the Netflix streaming service will assume pay-TV rights ), 20th Century Fox ( and subsidiaries 20th Century Fox Animation and Fox Searchlight Pictures ) and Universal Studios ( and subsidiaries Universal Animation Studios, Working Title Films, Illumination Entertainment and Focus Features ).

Ironically, Warner would acquire rivals HBO and Cinemax a few years later, when it merged with Time Inc.

Pay TV only began to become common after the widespread installation of cable television systems in the 1970s and 1980s ; early premium channels were most often movie broadcasters such as the US-based Home Box Office and Cinemax, both currently owned by Time Warner.

In 1983, concerned by the strategic and financial failure of its pay-TV venture The Movie Channel ( started to reap the benefits Time Inc. was having with HBO and Cinemax ), WASEC established a joint venture with Viacom, merging TMC with their premium movie network Showtime to form Showtime / The Movie Channel, Inc.

In 1987, Warner Cable rendered MTV Networks private, selling its assets ( MTV, RTS and Nickelodeon ) to Viacom for $ 685 million, ending Warner's venture into cable television until it acquired HBO and Cinemax as part of its merger with Time Inc.

, Cinemax ( through sister network HBO ) has exclusive deals with Warner Bros. Pictures ( and subsidiaries

The Group has a partnership with Brazilian TV-channel HBO Brasil, Cinemax, Sony Entertainment Television, Warner Channel ), ESPN Brasil, Bravo Brasil, Eurochannel, Country Music Television and MTV Brasil ( a joint venture with the American conglomerate Viacom ), but currently holds only the MTV Brazil, the Fiz and the Ideal.