


VOD users can permanently download content to a device such as a computer, digital video recorder (DVR) or a portable media player for continued viewing. Television VOD systems can stream content, either through a traditional set-top box or through remote devices such as computers, tablets, and smartphones. subsequently launched the Digital Cinema Initiative, in 2002. Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. This technology has since expanded its services from feature-film productions to include broadcast television programmes and has led to lower bandwidth requirements for VOD applications.

In 2000, the Fraunhofer Institute IIS developed the JPEG2000 codec, which enabled the distribution of movies via Digital Cinema Packages. Unlike broadcast television, VOD systems initially required each user to have an Internet connection with considerable bandwidth to access each system's content. As Internet and IPTV technologies continued to develop in the 1990s, consumers began to gravitate towards non-traditional modes of content consumption, which culminated in the arrival of VOD on televisions and personal computers. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of over-the-air programming was the most common form of media distribution. Video on demand ( VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. About a million people placed a bet-equivalent to 1 in 7 city residents.An example of an in-flight entertainment system on an Air Canada flight using VOD technology That balmy November night, the pot had gone unclaimed six times over. When no one picks correctly, the prize money rolls over to the next set of races. More than 10 million combinations are possible. The wager is a little like a trifecta of trifectas it requires players to predict the top three horses, in any order, in three different heats. 6, 2001, all of Hong Kong was talking about the biggest jackpot the city had ever seen: at least HK$100 million (then about $13 million) for the winner of a single bet called the Triple Trio. Their cathedral is Happy Valley Racecourse, whose grassy oval track and floodlit stands are ringed at night by one of the sport’s grandest views: neon skyscrapers and neat stacks of high-rises, a constellation of illuminated windows, and beyond them, lush hills silhouetted in darkness. Horse racing is something like a religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more than anyone else on Earth.
