Pay-per-views is a system in which viewers can pay to watch specific programming , as it is not included in regular channels or in regular programming on cable or satellite TV. Generally, the fee for releasing the programs is added to the operator’s account.
Pay-per-views , in its translation into Portuguese, means “pay-to-see”.
Splitting the words:
Pay (noun) – payment, salary, remuneration.
Pay (verb) – to pay.
Pay (adjective) – paid, salaried, remunerated.
Per (preposition) – by.
View (noun) – vision, visualization, view.
View (verb) – examine, watch, see, look.
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When the user buys a programming that he wants to watch in pay-per-view mode , it is seen at the same time by all the subscribers who acquired it, and not at the moment they want, as with video-on-demand systems.
Users can watch, for example, pay-per-view live football or they can buy the right to watch other events such as:
Films.
Fighting championship.
Shows.
Documentaries.
Pay -per-view channels have different characteristics from the common ones. The movies they make available for the user to watch are those that have been released recently and are not available on other channels. After a while these schedules are withdrawn and do not return.
In pay-per-view TV , broadcasts are encoded and received especially for subscribers who have decoding devices.
The acronym PPV is also used to refer to pay-per-view technology .
Example sentence with the word pay-per-view:
“ I prefer to watch television programs on pay-per-view. ”
Although this type of service has existed since the 1970s in the United States, the term pay-per-view only became definitively widespread in the 1990s, when companies like Showtime and HBO took the initiative to use it to show movies and other productions. own.
To acquire the right to watch programs either on PPV Sky , on the NET pay-per-view program or the pay-per-view system of other operators, users just need to use the telephone (for older cable TV sets) or remote control (for newer equipment).
There are several pay TV operators, for example:
Sky.
Hi TV.
Claro TV.
NET.
Alive.
GVT.
The PPV system is available worldwide for anyone who wants to buy different programming to watch on a pay-per-view channel .
This technology brings a lot of profit to pay-TV operators. They have a good return on the investments they make to acquire the rights to show the programs. In the United States, some wrestling championships are funded through pay-per-view profits.
Difference between A La Carte and Pay-per-views system (NET operator)
Both the pay-per-view and A La Carte systems are contracted and paid for in addition to regular programming . The difference is that:
Pay-per-view events have a predetermined duration and a single payment, which can be paid in installments or in cash.
A La Carte, on the other hand, are extra programming channels that can be watched continuously and the user makes a monthly payment.
