Prepaid Video Service Cards

• TV Ticket "Room Service" Module: Combat OnDemand and Spectravision! Sell video services in commercial accounts (hotels, motels, universities, resorts, etc.) by enabling the viewer to purchase movies, channels and VOD using a major credit card or TV Ticket (cash) card sold onsite.
• TV Ticket "Complements" Card Module: TV Ticket may be used as a low-cost alternative to today’s coupon system that rewards customers with a free PPV movie, but proves to be a cumbersome customer experience and costly for the provider to process. Eliminate processing costs associated with crediting customer accounts and automate with TV Ticket!
• TV Ticket "Personal" Module: Enable a residential subscriber to prepay, and purchase programming that does not appear on their monthly statement. A great application for gift cards or adult programming services! Moves your product from the TV to the shelf!
• TV Ticket Passport Module: Puts YOU in control of no-pay, poor-pay, no credit and cash only subscribers. Controls and provisions all digital video services on a prepaid daily-metered basis. When a subscriber’s account nears zero balance, an on-screen message notifies the customer that a new card needs to be purchase and activated. Automatically disables services once credit is used!

General Description
The four modules that are available can be revenue-producing alternatives to existing streams, but at a significantly lower cost to the cable or satellite broadcaster. For subscribers, it provides flexibility and convenience. None of the services require the cable broadcasters to modify their billing system. All the cable broadcaster is required to do is enter a single revenue adjustment figure that accounts for the revenue that is generated for any or all of the aforementioned capabilities.

It allows system operators to efficiently compensate their subscribers in circumstances where the system operator wishes to give away a temporary service, provides effective and low cost commercial competition with ad-hoc video service providers in hotels and hospitality establishments, allows consumers to buy premium programming without the purchase appearing on their bill, and provides a new, exciting and low cost means for broadcasters to serve the credit challenged and unbanked communities.

Benefits For The Provider
Benefits for the cable service or satellite provider abound. TV Ticket's "Passport" card allows total elimination for the need to hire security personnel at cable office locations where cash is collected from subscribers. It reduces or eliminates the bonding premiums for cable employees since little or no cash is handled, and can reduce or eliminate the need to perform expensive credit checking for new subscribers. With these and other benefits, cable service or satellite provides can streamline their manpower requirements, thus allowing return of profitability or enhance profits already being generated. For subscribers, it eliminates the need for traveling and waiting in line at a limited number of office locations in order to make a cash payment.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: What is the impact to our billing/SMS system(s)?
A: TV Ticket is an independent platform that operates under your control and runs in parallel with your existing SMS/billing systems. Therefore, there is no significant impact to your existing systems.

Q: In a room service application, isn’t integration to a hotel’s billing system required to support TV Ticket?
A: No. The hotel guest may purchase in-room video entertainment using their major credit card or by purchasing TV Ticket sold from a lobby vending machine. Video services are provisioned directly to the set-top box once the TV Ticket Authorization Center validates the TV Ticket card number or major credit card number.

Q: Do we have to create and produce the TV Ticket?
A: No. We work with your marketing department to create a branded and customized TV Ticket. Then, we produce and ship the tickets directly to you.

Q: What is the additional investment in network and set-top equipment we must make to support TV Ticket?
A: None. TV Ticket provisions video services over any/all currently deployed addressable and conditional access network architectures.

Q: Isn’t a 2-way digital set-top required to support TV Ticket?
A: No. One of the advantages of TV Ticket is that a prepaid video services may be provisioned over your existing network architecture, even to an analog box. Either analog or digital set-tops may be deployed in commercial accounts to drive revenues over existing channels.

Q: What video services does the TV Ticket platform provision?
A: TV Ticket can activate PPV movies, VOD and individual channels depending on your plant and set-top technology deployed. In addition, TV Ticket can be used to provision prepaid High Speed Data services to a guest room.

Q: Do we have to install/support an ARU, credit card authorization system?
A: No. Any customer within the United States may dial an 800 number to ETI’s TV Ticket Authorization Center. An ARU driven system authenticates cash ticket PINS and authorizes all credit card purchases.

Q: How do I know what movies/events were purchased?
A: TV Ticket provides complete and detailed partner sharing audit reports, accounting for all programming shown, price, location, etc. This report is used for settlement with the content providers.

Q: How do I collect the revenue for the sale of these movies?
A: Revenue generation from credit card purchases occurs automatically through the TV Ticket authorization center. Cash ticket purchases are collected from vending machines by the operator or via EFT during retail card activation.

Q. How do I purchase TV Ticket?
A. Please contact us at 800-332-1078 for detailed information.

Q. From a high-level perspective, what does a TV Ticket network diagram look like?
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