Interactive service of a CATV (cable television) system: the ability to authorize and pay for a specific cable programme as it is being viewed. The subscriber would send a data signal to the headend authorizing payment to view some specific programme. The headend would then send an encoded data signal back to the equipment in the home, which would descramble the programme to be viewed.
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FR: télévision ? péage [T50043]; télévision ? la carte [EUR]; télévision ? la demande [EUR]; paiement ? la séance [EUR] - service de télévision payant, le paiement se faisant sur la base des programmes effectivement regardés [9248]
FI: maksullinen katselukerta [EUR]
DE: sendungsabhängige Gebühren [EUR]
... the emergence of, inter alia, new applications such as pay per view, interactive television and video on demand as well as multimedia-services in the Community, combining both audio-visual and telecommunications, which often cannot adequately be provided on the networks of the telecommunications organizations.
