Say goodbye to the days of standing in long lines at movie theaters, driving to multiple video rental stores in search of that new release, waiting for your next queued-up movie to arrive in the mail and watching hours of music television before actually seeing a music video.
Broadband video on demand is now available for EMBARQ High-Speed Internet customers who can access the service at myembarq.com and purchase premium video content. The EMBARQ Video Store provides customers access to more than 5,000 movies, 5,000 music videos and 2,000 TV shows that they can rent on a pay-per-view basis, download to own or download to burn onto a DVD and watch on a computer or TV.
According to a March 2007 study from Nielsen's NetViews and NetRatings, an estimated 81 million of the 129 million people who access the Internet via a broadband connection, watched TV or movies online.
The cost to rent titles on a pay-per-view basis is $1.99 to $3.99 each. Once the content has been rented, customers have 30 days to download it. Once downloaded, the content can be viewed for 24 hours and can be watched without being connected to the Internet.
Additionally, the cost to purchase videos can range up to $19.99 each. When customers purchase videos they can play them an unlimited number of times on the device from which it was purchased.
Customers can also purchase and burn titles to a DVD. Once the copy has been burned from the computer on which it was purchased, it may be watched an unlimited number of times on that or on any other device.
Anyone can visit the EMBARQ Video Store by going to
myembarq.com, clicking "Videos" from the left side of the page and selecting "Video Store" from the drop-down menu. However, only EMBARQ High-Speed Internet subscribers can buy or rent from the video store.