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Not on my system. Unless you setup a pin, you can just click rent or buy and it goes on your next bill.
Cable TV on a waiting room TV ~~would~~ should 100% be pin protected.
I think you mean should.
Never underestimate the laziness of whoever has to set that up.
Next what bill? TV bill? Internet bill? Phone bill?
We fund our TV with taxes here in the Nordics, although I haven't watched any for like 15-20 years almost. (I dp consume a ton of BBC content though, and would happily have my media tax go toward that instead, like a tv-licence essentially.) It would just come out of the wall and I don't think it required even a phone connection on the property, though I don't remember ever being in a house which didn't have a phone connection (even one that was there physically but no bills paid and so not on) so I may be mistaken.
I think if you wanted extra channels, you'd purchase them from the company selling them and they'd unlock them at your address. Otherwise it was just like a jumble or negatives. Used to watch cartoon network on cable as a negative sometimes. We don't have pay-per-view channels, so I guess just that sort of infrastructure is missing from the TV's and remotes and the US has had it for a long time. I remember references to pay-per-view since the 90's but never thought how it's paid for.
The meme used the term "on demand" so I would presume cable bill, probably specifically Comcast/Xfinity.
"On Demand" is what they call being able to stream a movie or show without it having to air "live" on a normal broadcast. If you buy/rent something on Xfinity, it just gets added to your bill with no security unless you've gone out of your way to set parental locks.
For me, tv,internet,phone, cellphone are all the same bill. There is broadcast tv near where I live, but it’s very limited and is duplicated by the cable company who does internet etc so it’s not used by many since it’s generally part of the bundle you have to get for the basics.
Usually it was the ISP-companies here as well.. Or phone companies also worked with those TV-channel companies, so you might get some through them.
But even now, when I have only my mobile connection and my Internet in my apartment, they're separate bills. From the same company, but separate bills.
There has been those bundles marketed here as well with all sorts of channels and nowadays cloud storage etc. But the regulations make it so that you can't force a bundle on anyone.
Much like a few years ago a law passed that makes this a more physical example: you can't "bundle" beers anymore in the sense that yes of course you still can buy 6-packs and 12-packs and 24-packs, but the largest pack can't be relatively cheaper than buying a single can, so as not to encourage "saving money" by buying more alcohol at once.
Obviously the way the law got worded means the shops can still price the 6-packs and 8-packs differently, as long as a single can is the same price as the largest pack divided by number of beers in largest pack.
Also it's forbidden to forbid customers from breaking multipacks. This concerns beverages at least.
So, many people don't know it, but usually if you're in a supermarket and buying like a sixpack of beer, you'll get it cheaper if you tear one of them out and put it separately, so they'll have to beep six X 1can, which can be several euros cheaper than buying it with the container intact and them beeping it as one product.
So it's the same with bundles on services.
But also I don't know much about them as when I lived in a house I didn't pay the bills and we never used to have PPV at least.
If it's an android TV then probably gets charged to the Google account with payment someone setup on the tv
That depends. If it's cable, it's your TV bill and/or internet bill if it's bundled.