Showtime launches SMS text service for ordering Home Cinema pay-per-view movies

Television uses text messaging in more ways than one, and not just for viewer voting.

Leading digital pay-television network Showtime for the Middle East, has just launched Home Cinema Text, an SMS text service that enables subscribers to order their personal selection of pay-per-view movies via text messaging, according to AME info.

On a related note, multicultural broadcaster SBS Television Australia has just started a SMS service to remind viewers when their favourite programs are about to go to air. Each program has a four-digit SMS alert code which are available on the TV schedule page. The reminder wil be sent an hour before the show is screened. cf SBS launches SMS viewer service.

emily | 11:14 AM | SMS, Television and Radio |
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