“Pay per view”. in the USa
Many of the services that are been offered currently, have as a priority the user’s comfort, one of the disciplines that is been practiced in the United States for a while now, is the “pay per view”., this is a new concept in the service of watching TV, where the viewer, through an interactive menu, is able of choosing the content he or she wants to watch at one particular moment.

This service includes a wide variety of contents, from sport events, such as boxing, football, the Olympic Games or baseball games, among others. besides from this, movies that have been transmitted through satellite or cable, that are been played in movie theaters, or classic movies, can be seen as well.

This last point is called under demand video; it works as follows:
First you hire a service from an online television company, then you choose the movie you want to watch, a message is sent to the company and it sends the content you requested so it is automatically recorded into your DVR.

Since the eighties, this service has been introduced in the United States, especially in the sports field, until the nineties, when this service spread with companies such as IN DEMaND, HbO and SHOWTIME, these companies started using the DVR so the user can choose from his or her home, but they were offering not only sport events, but they were also providing content such as movies, TV shows and talk shows.

another television network that provides these services is IN DEMaND, that every type of content at the disposal of the user, from movies and TV shows, up to sport events (http://www.indemand.com/), without letting CbS (http://www.cbssports.com/) aside, however these types of events are usually among the most expensive ones, due to the fact they are live events.

In order to be able of subscribing to this kind of service you will need some additional components, such as a converting box that has to be plugged into your TV so it can play the interactive program that you will need in order to choose the programs or download the content.

These DVR boxes can be obtained through the company that provides you the service; they can be bought or rented, depending on the type of contract that has been previously arranged.