Two very interesting improvements have been made to the M-Net Movies 1 (DStv 103) and the simulcast M-Net Movies 1 HD (DStv 175) channels. Firstly the schedule of these channels have been modified so that all movies now only start at the top of the hour, making it very easy to know when a new movie will start, and secondly only movies with a true HD film version are shown with no further upscaling for the HD channel.
Once a movie on these two mirror channels ends, the remaining time left until the start of the new hour goes to filler programming - EPK, Hollywood Highlights and behind the scenes footage and interviews. Irrespective of what time of the day, viewers can now automatically assume that a new movie will only start at the top of an hour on the M-Net Movies 1 and M-Net Movies 1 HD channels.
It's now possible to immediately ascertain how much time is left before a new movie is going to start on M-Net Movies 1 and M-Net Movies 1 HD, or how much of a film has been shown already by simply looking at the time and how many minutes of an hour has already passed.
M-Net Movies 2 (DStv 104) does not (yet?) follow this simplified and easier to instantly understand schedule that was quietly introduced for M-Net Movies 1 and M-Net Movies 1 HD since the beginning of September.
Secondly it would seem that only only movies that has a true HD equivalent are now shown on M-Net Movies 1, so that no upscaling is required for M-Net Movies 1 HD. Although no official announcement about this has been made, the administrator of the movie channels that have their own grouping on Facebook, said a ''scheduling tweak from the 1st of September'' is introduced ''to provide all our movie fanatics with true HD content''.
