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Astro Vellithirai
Country Malaysia
Broadcast area Malaysia
Programming
Language(s) Tamil
Picture format 16:9 HDTV ( 1080i)
Ownership
Owner Astro
Sister channels Astro Vaanavil
Astro Vinmeen
Astro Box Office Movies Thangathirai
History
Launched16 April 2007 ( SD) ( Malaysia)
14 April 2022 ( HD) ( Malaysia)
Closed1 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

  1. ^ "Redirecting to Astro What's on". Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Singtel TV : Channels & On Demand : Channels : CH624 Astro Vellithirai". Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2015.