By now, everyone knows about pay-per-view, even people who have never used it. Pay-per-view is a pretty old feature making its informal debut in 1949! It was not offered main stream by cable TV companies until 1972. Dozens and dozens of networks have taken advantage of these services providing new release movies, live sporting events, concerts, and adult programming. With pay-per-view, the network chooses a time to offer a certain program and TV customers can either place an order for it directly though the TV, by logging into their account on-line from any high speed internet connection, or by the calling their TV company.
Many people think that pay-per-view has become practically obsolete with the advent of on-demand. While on demand is an awesome service allowing users more freedom with their TV schedule, they have yet to offer popular events like live UFC and boxing fights. Although some premium movie channel providers like HBO and Showtime do offer these types of events, they have direct subscriptions themselves to pay-per-view services. Also, pay-per-view is now available on-line so it is possible to forgo paying for TV service and get your entertainment fix from payperview.com. Cable TV for college students can be expensive so this option of pay-per-view online can be the best thing that ever happened to them, so far. It is true that pay-per-view has lost some its popularity due to the free movies that on-demand offers but until live sporting events are featured on regular cable channels, pay-per-view still has some fight left in it.
