Wiki: Pay per view

Pay per view or pay per view "in English pay per view (PPV), also known as video on demand or pay per view (PPE) - is a form of pay TV, in which the subscriber pays for events individual to view. These can be sporting events, newly released films, major musical concerts, etc.. Usually the system is marketed as a supplement to a package of television channels that the subscriber continuously receives the traditional way, having to pay, in addition to the events purchased, usually a fixed fee and rent for the equipment.


Unlike systems VOD (video on demand), the signal is transmitted simultaneously to all buyers. The channel can be used both digital and analog, and the user receives no signal or gets distorted while not making the "buy." The purchase can be done automatically with the remote control through own team decoder connected to a telephone line or cable itself if it is cable television, also manually, through a distributor or by a phone call.


The need for the decoder is a drawback when you want to see different content on various television subscriber.


The pay per view system has its origin in the United States in the late 1970's. The first major event in PPV was the bout between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas "Hitman" in 1981.


1. PPV in Spain

The first Spanish-language television broadcaster offered this service, branded "Box Office" was Canal Satellite Digital, since the beginning of his journey in January 1997, trading in this system the Spanish league football whose rights were acquired.


Then he would add the second pay-TV platform, Via Digital with "Palco" football in May of that year. Subsequently, the cable TV operators such as Telefonica's Imagenio, including both football as a "Tribune" as a great pay per view video store.


In March 2006 ONO presents Eye, the VOD system of the cable company.


Jaume Roures, Mediapro CEO, said the pay per view model to market football games on television will disappear in the medium term in Spain, as is already happening in the rest of Europe.