Industry Background
The provision of in-room entertainment and
information services to the hotel industry includes offering
pay-per-view motion pictures, archived television and other
short subject content, games, digital music, Internet
connectivity, guest programming of select pay cable channels and
an increasing array of interactive programs and information
services. Pay-per-view services were introduced in the early
1970s and have since
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become a standard amenity offered by many hotels
to their guests. Historically, providers of programming to
hotels delivered their content on a fixed time schedule that did
not provide the hote...