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�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
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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. |
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Nowadays, one of the companies that offer this
particular service is Direct TV, which offers many prices,
according to the content of the movie, from movies for $2, TV
series for $12 or $15, until $50 for recognized sport events. (Here
is their website: https://www.directv.com/). |
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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. |
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Even though many critics are questioning that
this type of service might overcome
digital television or
online
TV, it is a good alternative for those who do not have the
necessary time to be able of enjoying they favorite TV shows, we
hope that this type of service is not shadowed by the new
digital era that is approaching or by the improvements in the
online service.
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