Pay
Per View
Also see the Business
Index’s section on Pay-per-View
Pay
Per View - (PPV) - (May also be known
as Pay TV. Associated terms include Impulse
Pay
Per View, Pre-booked PPV & Pay Per Channel.) -
Offering
television
broadcasts to viewers in a manner that they can pay just for the
programs
they watch rather than having to subscribe to the whole channel or
station
on a full-time basis. PPV is often used for the broadcasting of boxing
matches
either on conventional Pay TV, or to a lesser extent in cinemas.
Interactive
Television has increased activities associated with Pay Per
View.
Enhanced PPV
– Pay Per View programming
that
starts every 30 minutes (or whatever regular time period the content
provider/network
operator decides on.)
Impulse Pay-Per-View
- (IPPV) - The
ability
to order pay-per-view programming without having to phone in your order
to
the content provider.
Pay-per-no-view -
Enables a user to cut
out
the worst scenes of a program. www.doubleyou.com/ads/anesvad/paypernoview/index.html
Pay Per View VOD
– (a.k.a. Transactional
VOD) - The opposite of Subscription Video on Demand
(SVOD).
Here
the customer pays a single price for each individual VOD program or set
of
programs he/she sees. With SVOD, typically the subscriber pays a set
amount
(most often monthly,) for a set amount of VOD.
Pay-per-rent
– Programming that you pay
a
price for the temporary use of. This can include Video on Demand and
Pay
Per View.
Pre-booked PPV -
Where the subscriber
signs
up to watch a PPV show in advance by a substantial number of weeks or
months.
Often this is a good way to get a discount.
VOD/PPV Content Aggregator
– (VOD
Aggregator,
VOD Aggregation) – Collecting programming that will
be offered as
VOD
and/or physically enhancing the underlying content/technology, with VOD
and/or
PPV. Often packaging, encoding, asset management and transport to video
service
providers is also (or partially) provided by the same entity. TVN
Entertainment
is an example.
Pay TV - Encrypted TV programs, which
can only
be
accessed by subscribers, using smart cards. Generally Pay TV is
distinguished into two categories:
1. Pay Per Channel: Customers subscribe on a
monthly basis a
package
of TV-channels.
2. Pay Per View: Customers pay for viewing
programs
that
include movies
or sport events that they select individually from the TV channels. The
smart
card registers the access to the program in order to charge the
customer
for the selected
service.
3. Pay-per-no-view - Enables a user to cut
out the
worst scenes
of
a program. www.doubleyou.com/ads/anesvad/paypernoview/index.html
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