Cable Video Store (CVS), is a defunct pay-per-view (PPV) service that was launched in 1985 by General Instruments. It was later owned by Graff Pay-Per-View. Cable Video Store consisted of one channel which carried first run movies and specials (however it did not carry the big events such as boxing or wrestling) on a PPV basis. They also offered low cost programs to buy along with the standard PPV fare.
CVS went off the air in 1997 as the result of other pay-per-view services such as Viewer's Choice (now known as In Demand) and Request TV that provided multi-channels of PPV and the launching of Video on Demand on many cable systems.
Famous quotes containing the words cable, video and/or store:
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)
“These people figured video was the Lord’s preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. “He’s in the de-tails,” Sublett had said once. “You gotta watch for Him close.””
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“In matters of the intellect follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration... and do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)