VOD (video on demand) is a service for broadcasting digital videos via television, the Internet or 3G telephony.
It allows users to order films, documentaries or even television programs on demand, at the desired time. Amateurs appreciate the flexibility of video on demand, offering great freedom and increasingly phenomenal choice; the exact opposite of traditional television channels imposing their program schedules and timetables. With VOD, you make your own television.
This important advance for cultural consumption has developed thanks to the boom in very high-speed access in homes: VOD indeed requires significant network resources.
VOD broadcasting
It is now possible to take advantage of this service on different types of devices:
- computers
- mobile phones
- game consoles (Playstation, Xbox ...)
- television screens (some new features directly integrate the VOD system)
Watch a program on VOD
VOD enthusiasts particularly appreciate the fact that they can enjoy video programs without the need for television. A simple computer, laptop or desktop, and you connect to a VOD site where you very quickly order films, concerts, documentaries ...
- The user of a VOD program chooses his program
- He buys his program à la carte
- He watches it on his television or downloads it to his computer
- It has a limited time to view it except in the case of final download.
The VOD offer in Our country
Cutting-edge technology, evolving with the development of Internet access capacity, the VOD offer is constantly evolving.
Its originality: these are offers without subscription. Total freedom. This point is changing as VOD subscription offers are emerging.
VOD from ISPs (Internet service providers)
Almost all ISPs offer a VOD service:
- Free with in particular the FHV service and the CanalPLay offer: available either à la carte or as an unlimited subscription. About 10 references, seven themes (cinema, series, cartoons, manga, music, documentaries and adults.
- Alice with the offer of vodeo.tv is rather complete with 6 partners and 10 references.
- SFR SFR's “video club” offers an offer to watch on its TV or download on its computer. The download offer is not the most extensive but there are nice titles available like all the adventures of Harry Potter for example.
- Dartybox 3000 titles to watch on its television.
- Orange with programs from Notre pays Television Available on television, computer or video player. Note the final download: no time limit.
- Numericable with Cinéplay, TF1 vision, i-concerts Almost 5000 programs available to date.
The other VOD offers of the channels
CanalPlay is Canal + 's video download service. Different from Canal + on demand which only offers the channel's programs, CanalPlay offers a host of particularly tempting videos for movie fans. Over 6000 videos available for purchase or rental, on your TV or computer. The most extensive offer to date.
M6 also opened its unlimited VOD service with a plethora of series in addition to its catch-up TV service M6 replay.
Vodeo.tv: more than 3000 videos, this site stands out from the others by its offer of documentaries, carefully selected from the best channels such as National Geographic, Odyssey ...
Cultural distributors: free VOD from Cdiscount.com (this free service which no longer seems to be active offered films and concerts with new releases every Friday) and Virginmega for example. FNAC no longer offers this service.
Cinema circuits: MK2, Your city's cinema circuit, has signed a partnership with CanalPlay since 2010.
SVODs
These are video-on-demand services operating on a flat-rate and unlimited basis. Little developed for the moment, the most prominent is that of Free, the Free Home Video.
Photo copyright: Canalplay
