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.
