Television services which must be paid for by the viewer if they are to be received. Contrast with free-to-air.
Services or group of services which require to pay a subscription fee to watch them.
Encrypted TV programmes, which can only be accessed by subscribers, using entitled smart cards of the broadcasters. Generally Pay TV is distinguished into two categories:1.Pay per Channel : Customers subscribe on a monthly basis a package of TV-channels.2.Pay per View : Customers pay for viewing one single movie or e.g. sport event which is selected individually from the TV channels. The smart card registers the access to the programme in order to charge the customer for the selected service.
Channels for which a subscriber pays over and above the basic cable fee. The signal is descrambled by use of a decoder.
Pay television or pay-TV refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analogue and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods.