Although the new system should be able to incorporate a way of charging people for pay-TV programmes, such things are likely to be add-ons to an essentially free service.
It was the second most-watched pay-TV programme behind the 7pm edition of The Simpsons on Sky1, with 394,000 viewers (1.9%).
It was the most watched pay-TV programme of the day, ahead of an episode of The Simpsons on Sky 1 with 574,000 viewers (2.8%) at 7.30pm.
It was the most watched pay-TV programme of the night, ahead of The Simpsons at 7pm on Sky1, with 286,000 viewers.
This was "Keep On Discovering", the 2014 edition of the annual "Upfront" presentation by Discovery Communications, when the biggest pay-TV programme provider in the world sets out its stall to its advertisers.
The most watched pay-TV programme of the day was Star Trek sequel Into Darkness on Sky Movies Premiere, its first showing watched by 354,000 viewers, a 1.5% share, from 8pm on Friday night.
The top rating pay-TV programme on Saturday and Sky Sports' best performer over the weekend was, unsurprisingly, live coverage of Manchester United's 4-1 win at Swansea, which averaged more than 2 million simulcast across Sky Sports 1, pay-TV entertainment channel Sky 2 and free-to-air entertainment service Pick TV.
"They used to pay me to put horrible noises on TV programmes," he says, "and now they were paying me to take them off".
"Since then, Tiscali's IP TV service has been expanding and the service is poised to win a major battle against BT's Vision and Virgin Media as it gets access to some premium TV programmes from the United Kingdom's satellite pay-TV provider, BSkyB, Obioduu noted.
I think I commit at least two micro-crimes every day: illegally streaming TV programmes and taking a plastic bag without paying for it.
The content here is a mixture of long-form movies and TV programmes (competing against DVD retail and rental and some pay TV channels) and short-form video clips on sites such as YouTube.
