IPTV – The Immediate Future Internet TV Technology
In contrast to the traditional mode of viewing television wherein you need to tune in to a channel within a particular signal range, IPTV uses internet protocol to deliver the TV channels to you through broadband cables. This is done by compressing the videos in data packets and transferring them to you through internet. But what’s so special about it!!
Until recently you could see a program only when they broadcast it. Days are limited when you allow others to decide which programs you should watch and at what time. Now you have the liberty in your hands to decide for yourself what you want to see, when you want to see it and whether you want to watch it a second time at your convenience.
Instead of broadcasting the program in real time through satellite or cable method, this new technology has the dual ability to either deliver it live streaming or store it on server for you to watch it at your convenient time.
In this new technology you will not get the broadcasts through a TV antenna or satellite dish or cable; rather you will use internet to get it downloaded and played immediately through live streaming. The signals you get from a broadband line are of much higher bandwidth. However you are not downloading the program like an ordinary file. In fact you download it bit by bit and simultaneously play it. So it’s a continuous process of downloading and playing it with practically no time gap.
Alternatively, if you do not have time, you can watch it at leisure by subscribing to an IPTV server where the video is lying stored.
Future of this technology promises a great live interactive system which will not be just one way but will work both ways with exchange of information live. As the technology is changing so fast, many unimaginable things are there in store.
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