TVN Entertainment Corporation is a US-based provider of video on demand

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 (VOD) services to various cable

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

, telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

 and direct broadcast satellite

Direct broadcast satellite

Direct broadcast satellite is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception.A designation broader than DBS would be direct-to-home signals, or DTH. This has initially distinguished the transmissions directly intended for home viewers from cable television...

 (DBS) companies. The company currently provides more than 8,000 hours of content available in a given month.

VOD Virtual Networks

In addition to offering programming from Hollywood studios, major cable and subscription networks, TVN offers nine exclusive VOD-only networks:

• Ambient TV
• Caught On Demand
• Eurocinema
• The Karaoke Network
• Kids Unlimited
• Music Unlimited
• SAAVN
• Telecentral
• UrbanXtra

ADONISS

TVN created a proprietary system called ADONISS to create and manage metadata

Metadata

The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...

for the programs TVN offers. This metadata is used to build the on demand menus customers see on their cable systems, as well as to help the systems manage the flow of content. ADONISS was nominated for a Technical Emmy in 2007.