Converting, navigating and displaying video content uploaded from the internet to a digital TV video-on-demand platform

摘要

A method of tracking value transactions of on-demand TV program content on a TV services platform of a digital TV services provider includes uploading TV programs with respectively associated metadata for specifying positions of titles of the TV programs in a hierarchically categorized ordering of an electronic program guide, automatically listing the titles on the electronic program guide in their proper positions using their associated metadata, enabling a tracking system to track and collect data on selections of on-demand TV programs for viewing by TV service subscribers, and upon a TV service subscriber selecting a title of a TV program listed on the electronic program guide, enabling the tracking system to save tracking data for a value transaction related to the selection of the TV program for viewing. The tracking data may be used for tracking viewing charges to TV service subscribers, charges for automatic ad insertion, placement charges to providers of on-demand TV programs, provision of value-added services, and maintaining accounts for providers of on-demand TV programs.