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Universal To Offer On-Demand Films.


In a first among major Hollywood Hollywood.

1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910.
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Vivendi is also the name of a group of related French companies; see the disambiguation page.


VIVENDI® is a software package for care management and staff organisation published by the German software company CONNEXT and introduced in 1995.
 Universal has struck a longterm agreement to license its movies to cable operators for new video-on-demand The ability to deliver a movie, sports event or other video program to a TV set whenever the customer requests it. Video-on-demand (VOD) typically refers to free and paid programs from the cable TV companies or the telephone companies that offer video over DSL lines.  services.

Vivendi's deal with In Demand, a cable programming distributor owned by four of the nation's top cable operators, will allow its movies to be available to cable subscribers approximately 45 to 60 days after they are released on video.

Vivendi will receive about 60 percent of the revenues cable operators collect from customers who order the studio's titles, about 10 percent more studios generally receive from pay-per-view pay-per-view
n.
A service offered by cable television companies that allows subscribers to view special programs for an additional charge.



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Title Annotation:agreement with In Demand
Comment:Universal To Offer On-Demand Films.(agreement with In Demand)
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 30, 2001
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