Some upscale apartment rental services happily provide their guests with concierge services on demand (and often at an additional cost, but not always).
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It also offers application performance services, on-demand managed services and business performance management services via its EdgePlatform technological platform.
The new SPE-Starz agreement provides movie content for all Starz platforms including its linear STARZ and ENCORE channels in standard definition and HD, subscription VOD services in standard definition, HD On Demand and 3D On Demand, and online streaming services, including the recently launched STARZ PLAY and ENCORE PLAY.
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Harmonic makes and sells high-performance products designed to deliver the next generation of broadcast and on-demand services such as high-definition television (HDTV) and video on demand.
Roughly 53 million homes have access to video-on-demand with the average consumer spending more than 8.5 hours using on-demand services and watching more than 17 titles a month, according to Rentrak, a research group.
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On-demand services offered by cable and satellite companies and by other vendors on the Internet.
On a recent afternoon there, Bronwen Blaney, manager of retail services and custom publishing for On Demand Books, put the new machine through its paces.
Mr Halton said the service "combines the best TV with on demand services and internet content".
So Efficient is developing software that manages the flow of DSL data through the phone system, especially as telcos bring out services such as video on demand that require more bandwidth.
The situation has been exacerbated by increasing rates of rural to urban migration which have, on the one hand, deprived the rural areas of agricultural labour and, on the other, increased the demand on the limited social services in urban areas.
Broadcasters and cable TV providers including Sky, Virgin and BT are also increasingly offering on-demand services.
The fight over employee benefits when it comes to app-based on-demand services continues.
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And you can send audio from any application, such as a streaming music service or video-on-demand services like Hulu or Netflix.
Research firm GartnerG2 suggests that, even by 2005, only 2% of movie revenues will come from on-demand services via the internet.
New digital cable services like video-on-demand and high-speed Internet are catching on.
One of these services, video-on-demand, stores programming on a central server, where users can access it at the click of a remote.
Both NBC and CBS will move popular programs to video-on-demand services.
Until now consumers have been restricted to renting HD movies from on-demand services, including VUDU's library of over 1, 400 HD movies, the largest HD library in the world.
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They are cutting cords with the cable companies and signing up for on-demand services such as Hulu and Netflix, or buying shows and movies through Amazon or Apple.
At the same time, the firm's projections suggest that sales growth in physical formats for home video will peter out by 2015 amid growing consumer interest in on-demand services.
That means services Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand are still 720p, since they don't offer any higher-res content -- it's only certain channels like Vimeo that support 1080p.
As well as the drop in government funding, the council said there is a gap in the budget because of an extra demand on services due to the recession.
The report confirms that growth is being driven across multiple application spaces and markets by simultaneous increases in users, access methodologies, access rates and services (such as video on demand and social media).
Additionally, Harmonic provides software products that allow customers to control and visually monitor their digital video infrastructure at an aggregate level, as well as solutions for high-quality digital storage of real-time broadcasts for on-demand services.
It also has a few deals with the makers of set-top boxes to power the software that runs TV guides and on-demand services over the internet and this too could be a way to spread Silverlight usage.
Mobile-driven on-demand services will become standard practice.
Comcast unveils high-definition TV and video-on-demand services.
Salesforce.com provides on-demand services for customer-relationship management.
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"The industry has evolved so that TV Everywhere and subscription video on-demand services can coexist with the appropriate windowing strategy, while allowing for more content flexibility to meet consumer demand in the changing digital landscape, " said Deborah K. Bradley, senior vice president of program acquisitions for Turner Broadcasting.
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