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Trick Play

Trick mode or trick play is a feature of digital video systems, including digital video recorders and video on demand systems, that mimics the visual

Advertising-based Video-on-Demand

A streaming video service that offers consumers access to on-demand video content which includes advertisements. This term is typically associated with a streaming service delivering

Catch’up TV

The ability for a viewer to play recently broadcast programs on demand, without having to decide to record them first. Typically, the service is proposed

Timeshift

A timeshifting service offers to the users the possibility to go backward on the live content by using the trick play functions (pause, fast rewind,

Live-to-File

File captured from a linear channel and ready for exporting to an external system for editing purposes. Capture initiated by the operator of the service.

Live-to-VOD

Asset captured from a linear channel and transferred to a VOD catalog. Capture initiated by the operator of the service.

Start-Over

The ability for a viewer to rewind to the start/beginning of a program which is currently being broadcast and play it in a timeshifted fashion.

Trick Play

Trick play is a feature of digital video systems that mimic the visual feedback given during fast-forward, pause and rewind operations that were provided by

Video on Demand

VOD systems allow users to select and watch video content over a network as part of an interactive television system. VOD systems either “stream” content,

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