PPV Portal Service

Our PPV Portal service allows you to create multiple viewing channels, with mulitple sub-categories to organize your live and on-demand streams with multi-level ppv models. Viewers may purchase full site access, channel access, sub-category access or individual stream access. The Admin Console gives you complete sales and stream statistics. The portal supports silverlight, flash, Real networks and custom players.

The Data Structure

The Portal service has a three level data tree;

1. Channels
2. Sub-Categories
3. Streams - Live and On-Demand

For example, you can have a Channel named "Sports", with sub-categories "Football", "Baseball", "Basketball" and "Soccer". You then create live and on-demand streams within each of the sub-categories.

The PPV Model

Viewers may purchase access in several different levels of the portal structure;

1. Full Portal Access (all channels)
2. Channel Access (all within a channel)
3. Sub-Category Access (all within a sub-category)
4. Single Event Access

For each of these levels, you can offer the following PPV Model;

1. Pay-Per-View
2. Free Viewing with a Ticket
3. Free Viewing without a Ticket
4. Off - not used

Each Pay-Per-View model has 3 payment options. Two are customizable, the third is a pay by hour option. An example of how this is used;

1. Annual Pass, 365 days 125 hours maximum
2. Monthly Pass, 30 days, 25 hours maximum
3. Per Hour, good for 30 days

Maximum Hours

Each PPV Model requires a number of days valid and a maximum number of viewing hours. The maximum viewing hours feature allows you to figure out profit/loss numbers for each model and gives your viewers the right to watch whatever they want, within the content purchased, until either the maximum viewing hours are reached, or they reach the days valid.

Website Intregration

The portal service builds a front page for you automatically via our database system, with the look and feel of your website or project (banners and pages colors), or you can intregrate our service onto your own website via URL links to our data features.

Credit cards are processed through our merchant account, or you can use your own merchant account.

CDN Streaming

We provide the Silverlight, Flash and Real Networks players that you can stream using most any CDN. You assign each stream a player type (Silverlight, Flash, Etc), if the stream is 16:9 or 4:3 and the stream URL. You can also use a custom player if desired (requires testing), for example, you may have a custom player that is provided to you from your CDN.

How the Viewing Page Works After ticket authentication, we direct the viewer to a viewing page that we host. This page is controlled by our security & live manager components. The player is loaded (from the player type) and it plays the stream URL that you assign to the stream. We control ticket security, stream encryption (DRM) and/or URL sharing protection would also be needed, if you desire stronger content security. Such increased security is available through your CDN, or us.