On Demand TV

Official website of channel 4 On Demand
Tells you how to use the service and the latest things to download



BBC article about 4 OD

"Channel 4 said it was the first major broadcaster in the world to offer all its home-grown programming on demand."

"Downloading can take up to one-and-a-half times the length of the programme."
Actually worth downloading???

"Each programme will "disappear" from users' computers 48 hours after they start to watch."
Paying the programme but not actually being able to keep it.





Guardian Unlimited article on OD TV




Statistics from OD TV taken from the article


"63% of the population that would prefer to watch on-demand TV,"

"Twenty-five percent of people said a new wave of smaller, specialist, on-demand TV services will make it harder for the major broadcasters to survive."

"42% of people that watch on-demand actually watch less TV as a result."

"Around 17% of people are already viewing on-demand content and movies, soaps and sports would be the biggest incentive for the people that haven't tried it yet."

"28% of Londoners have watched on-demand content via broadband compared to just 12% in Wales and Northern Ireland."


"63% that would prefer on-demand, the other 37% don't understand what it is - if they did, they would want it too."

"Around 42% of the people surveyed for the report said traditional TV schedules won't exist in ten years"