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Sony Le Plex HD

television channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ24952504
Source-derived summary

Sony Le Plex HD was an Indian English-language pay-TV channel featuring popular and critically acclaimed Hollywood movies. It was launched on 23 August 2016, and was owned and operated by Sony Pictures Networks. It had the broadcast licences for Sony, Universal Studios, Lionsgate, MGM and Disney films in India.

Zoya Akhtar was the brand ambassador for Sony Le Plex when the channel was launched.

Sony Le Plex HD was discontinued by Sony Pictures Networks India on 31 December 2018 at 00:00 hours.

Editorial summary

“Sony Le Plex HD” enters the record as television channel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sony, Plex and television can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sony, Plex and television.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sony Le Plex HD” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sony, Plex and television provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24952504. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2018.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sony Le Plex HD”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sony Le Plex HD primary sources, Sony Le Plex HD archive and Sony research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Sony Le Plex HD” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.