Wednesday, April 15, 2009

PEO Video on Demand

PEO TV allows subscribers to watch any pre-loaded (i.e. stored in the servers) movies at any time. Subscribers have a control as to select when and what they want to watch. While watching the program customers can use trick play (pause, rewind and forward). When playing VOD or TSTV, system supports Trick play at different speeds. The speed can be 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x and 32x. The time shift facility is provided only for certain selected channels. The PEOTV VoD Store currently has movies, Tele-dramas, Documentary and Music Videos. Current PEO TV VoD menu categorized as English (Movie, Documentary), Sinhala (Movie, Tele-dramas, Documentary), Music ( C music and M Entertainment ) and Government Film unit.



Hotlist gives the list of popular VoDs as new arrival list newly arrive VoD and End soon lists movable VoD. This menu gives searching function by cast and by title. The subscriber can search for a VOD by movie name, actor name and director name and also to browse the VOD listing by category (genres).Play list gives details about ordered VoD and it gives a list of viewed VoD.
Upon selecting a VOD movie on EPG page, the subscriber can read the synopsis of movie and watch preview the VOD trailer. Thus based on this introduction the subscriber can easily decide if he/she likes to purchase the VOD movie. In PEO TV system, Bookmark is used to memorize VOD break point. The viewer can bookmark the movie when ever he want and do something else. When he comes back later he can continue from where he bookmarked the movie. The bookmark features a very convenient way for subscriber to watch VOD movies.

When a VOD is being played, a progress bar along and buttons for pause, play, rewind and forward are being displayed. This progress bar is presented to subscriber indicating the total length of VOD time and current watching time (elapsed time of watching). The system support Pay per view for single VOD. The subscriber will be given the VOD price and the option for him to choose payments or not watching this movie, once he choose to pay, the system will immediately charge the bill, then he will be allowed to watch this VOD.

8 comments:

Gihan said...

How many movies are available in the "VoD" I can see only a couple of documentries under "English"...am i missing anything here?

Pubudu Weerathunga said...

Under English PEO didn't list any English movies..There are only English documentaries available right now.But in the future there will be english movies under "English" list.
But there are sinhala movies are available right now..

Anonymous said...

When will we get to see a good collection of movies in VoD? everytime i call PEOTV/SLT they say they will add more movies soon...but it never happens

Pubudu Weerathunga said...

PEO TV is trying to give viewers the best content it can..

Anonymous said...

But a few documentries can not be classified as "the best content"...even the few sinhala movies available are crap..like Trazan and mamai raja...

Pubudu Weerathunga said...

currently PEO tv is expanding its customer base.Be connected to PEO TV you see wonders in future..

Anonymous said...

what if customers decide to wait till they "see the wonders"....tell your decision makers (whoever they are) that customers are not willing to buy anything with out seeing...

u cant sell "will be great" stuff....whatever u sell has to be good already...

Pubudu Weerathunga said...

Got the point..we will work on that..Thank you for pointing that out