Delivering dollars on demand: cable industry weighs different models to build revenue.

From: Broadcasting & Cable | Date: November 3, 2003 | Copyright information

Television on Demand (TVOD) means different things to different people. Unlike other industry acronyms like HDTV or DVD, TVOD doesn't refer to one particular service, but is instead an umbrella term for a host of new digital program delivery technologies that is quickly changing the way we watch television.

Television on Demand can refer to Video On Demand (VOD), delivering content on a transactional basis to subscribers through the use of large video servers and digital set-tops. Or it can describe Digital Video Recorders (DVR), intelligent hard disk recorders that allow ...

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