Editing Cinemax (section)

===List of channels===
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Cinemax offers up to eight 24-hour multiplex channels, available in both [[standard-definition television|standard]] and [[high-definition television|high definition]], with regional feeds based on time zones.<ref>{{cite web |title=Explore Cinemax - Learn About the Channel and All Its Platforms |url=http://www.cinemax.com/explore-cinemax.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116151505/http://www.cinemax.com/explore-cinemax.html |archive-date=January 16, 2013 |access-date=February 18, 2013 |website=Cinemax |publisher=[[HBO|Home Box Office Inc.]]}}</ref> These channels include a [[video on demand|subscription video-on-demand]] service, Cinemax on Demand. Maintenance periods, ranging from 30 minutes to two hours, occur monthly during early morning hours before the 6:00&nbsp;a.m. ET/PT start of the broadcast day.

Cinemax transmits its channels on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules. The time zone-based feeds are usually packaged together, resulting in a maximum three-hour difference in local airtimes between geographic locations. The opposite-region feed serves as a [[timeshift channel]], allowing viewers to watch programs up to three hours later or four hours earlier than their local airtime. While most providers offer only the East and West Coast feeds of the main Cinemax channel, timeshifted feeds for other multiplex channels are available on platforms like DirecTV, [[YouTube TV]], and [[Hulu]] live TV.
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| width="200" align="center"|[[File:Cinemax 2016.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''Cinemax''' || align="left"|The main "flagship" feed; Cinemax features blockbuster movies, first-run films, movie favorites and limited original programming. The channel commonly premieres new movies – debuting on the channel within a lag of between eight months to one year on average from their initial theatrical release – on Saturday nights at 10:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time as part of "See It Saturday", and broadcasts a featured movie Sunday through Thursdays at 10:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time. Cinemax also runs original action series on Friday evenings at 10:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time.
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| width="200" align="center" |[[File:MoreMax Logo.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''MoreMax''' || align="left"|Launched in 1991, MoreMax is a secondary channel with similar program content as Cinemax on a separate schedule; it also carries foreign, [[independent film|independent]] and [[arthouse film]]s. The service broadcasts a featured movie every night at 9:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time. MoreMax was originally named '''"Cinemax 2"''' until 1998. It originally used slightly different bumpers to distinguish itself from the original Cinemax, but by 1993, it had instead begun using a barebones "program grid" structure similar to the [[History of Pop (American TV channel)|Prevue Channel]] (also used by Cinemax 3, as well as by sister networks HBO2 and HBO3). With the rebrand to MoreMax, it gained a full on-air look once more. This channel serves as a repeat of all the programs, so that people who missed premieres can get a second chance to watch it on here, 24 hours later.
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| width="200" align="center" |[[File:ActionMax logo.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''ActionMax''' || align="left"|Launched in 1998, ActionMax broadcasts action movies including blockbusters, westerns, war pictures, martial arts, horror and adventure films; the channel has a prime time film block, "Heroes at 8", which carries a featured action movie at 8:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time nightly. ActionMax replaced '''"Cinemax 3"''', which existed from 1995 to 1997.
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| width="200" align="center" |[[File:ThrillerMax Logo.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''ThrillerMax''' || align="left"|Launched in 1998, ThrillerMax runs mystery, suspense, horror and thriller movies; the channel runs a prime time film block, "When the Clock Strikes 10", showing a different featured mystery, suspense or thriller at 10:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time seven nights a week.
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| width="200" align="center" |[[File:5StarMax Logo.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''5StarMax''' || align="left"|Launched on May 17, 2001,<ref name="Plex"/> 5StarMax showcases modern classics, featuring award-winning films and timeless movie classics. The channel broadcasts a featured classic every night at 9:00&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time. It is the only Cinemax channel that did not air Max After Dark content.
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| width="200" align="center" |[[File:MovieMax Logo.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''MovieMax''' || align="left"|MovieMax broadcasts films aimed at young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 years old (the format of the pre-relaunch @Max); it was previously formatted as a family-oriented service from June 2013 to January 2015. The channel originally launched on May 17, 2001, as WMax,<ref name="Plex"/> which was targeted at a female audience, and featured dramas, mysteries and classic romance films.
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| width="200" align="center" |[[File:OuterMax Logo.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''OuterMax''' || align="left"|Launched on May 17, 2001,<ref name="Plex"/> OuterMax runs science fiction, horror and fantasy films; the channel has a late-night film block, "Graveyard Shift", carrying a featured sci-fi or horror movie every night at midnight Eastern Time.
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| width="200" align="center" |[[File:Cinemáx Logo.svg|200px|center]]<br />'''Cinemáx'''{{refn|group="note"|Alternately "Cinemax Spanish" or "Cinemax en Espanol" in program listings.}} || align="left"|Cinemáx is a Spanish simulcast of Cinemax (similar to HBO Latino, although without any programming differences), broadcasting Spanish-dubbed Hollywood films and original series; all of Cinemax's other multiplex channels otherwise do carry Spanish film audio on the [[second audio program]].<ref name=changes>{{cite press release|title=Cinemax Set to Tweak Its Lineup to Enhance Audience Appeal|url=http://news.directv.com/2013/05/23/cinemax-set-to-tweak-its-lineup-to-enhance-audience-appeal/|website=[[DirecTV]]|date=May 23, 2013|access-date=May 26, 2013|archive-date=June 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608051748/http://news.directv.com/2013/05/23/cinemax-set-to-tweak-its-lineup-to-enhance-audience-appeal/|url-status=live}}</ref> The channel originally launched on May 17, 2001, as @Max,<ref name="Plex">{{cite web|title=Cinemax Keys HBO Plex Patrol|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-70493274.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105151453/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-70493274.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 5, 2012|author=Mike Reynolds|periodical=Cable World |date=January 15, 2001|access-date=February 24, 2011}}</ref> targeted at young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 with programming focused on contemporary films, and movies with an exemplified attitude and unique ideas; under its current format, the channel was known as MaxLatino from June 1, 2013, to April 1, 2015, when it adopted its parent network's branding (with the "a" utilizing an [[acute accent|acute diacritic accent]] for pronunciation disambiguity).
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