单词 | video on demand |
释义 | > as lemmasvideo on demand video on demand n. (a) U.S. rare the practice of watching television programmes recorded on videotape, rather than at the time of transmission; (b) a service accessed via a telephone line or (now usually) the internet, which allows a customer to watch any of a wide selection of television programmes, films, and other video content at any time by means of a computer or interactive television system; abbreviated VOD. ΚΠ 1971 Iowa City Press-Citizen 29 Mar. 11 a/3 Cassette television, aptly described as ‘video on demand’. 1983 Telephone Engineer & Managem. (Nexis) 15 July 92 Customers..will demand not only voice service, but access to data, text display, remote telemetry, video on demand, and broadband services. 1990 M. M. Mirabito & B. Morgenstein New Communications Technol. vii. 137/2 The new system, the so-called ‘video on demand’, could offer the same collection of television shows in addition to self-help and exercise videotapes, movies, and a library of older television programs. 2006 Guardian 6 July (Technol. section) 2/1 Non-linear TV is content that we grab when we want it, such as video on demand, music downloads, computer games and anything else we choose at whim from the web. < as lemmas |
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