OpenTV ENTera & OpenTV Platform Documentation

Enabling preview for a product

Overview

A preview-enabled product is one that allows users who do not have entitlements to the product’s contents to view the content for a limited time.

For example, you could enable preview on an existing channel bundle product so that your users can view these channels for ten minutes in any 24-hour period. They may then be tempted to purchase a subscription for the channels.

The instructions below assume that the product already exists.

Making a product preview-enabled

Set the following attributes on a product to enable preview:

Attribute

Description

Default value

isPreview

Enables (true) or disables (false) preview for the product.

false

maxPreviewDuration

The number of minutes each account can watch the content within the period specified by previewCycle (see below)

10

previewCycle

How often the usage measurement resets. It can take a value of Day or Monthly.

Day

maxSessions

The maximum number of concurrent sessions that can watch the preview product’s content

No limit

Existing session limits apply – see Setting concurrent streaming limits for accounts or device groups .

You can set these attributes on a product in multiple ways:

See also

Working with preview products