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...