Fox on Demand is an Internet television

Internet television

Internet television is the digital distribution of television content via the Internet...

 service, created by Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

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The service is used to view Fox programming online via Video on Demand

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

. Fox on Demand is limited to Internet

Internet

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 users in the United States

United States

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. The site offers all major Fox television series for online viewing. Some content plays with a single short advertisement

Television advertisement

A television advertisement or television commercial, often just commercial, advert, ad, or ad-film – is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message, typically one intended to market a product...

 at each traditional commercial break point in the episode, while others are preceded by a single long advertisement and then play commercial-free.

Fox on Demand provides real-time video streaming without buffering or pauses. Some shows are available in high definition video. FoD uses a proprietary streaming software, Move Media Player.