Zattoo

Zattoo Player

File:Zattoo logo.png
Developer(s)	University of Michigan and Zattoo Inc.
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Internet Television
License	Proprietary
Website	www.zattoo.com

Zattoo is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet Protocol Television system ("P2PTV") with current focus on European channels, licensed content, and Digital Rights Management. It is developed by researchers and programmers based out of Ann Arbor, with corporate offices in San Francisco and Zurich. As of December 2006, the product is in public beta testing. The player is based on H.264 (QuickTime and ffmpeg), and is Mac OS X, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista compatible. It needs a minimum downstream bandwidth of 400 kbit/s on the client side.

History

Zattoo was first tried out with Swiss free-to-air channels coinciding with the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Starting from 4 Swiss TV channels (SF 1, SF 2, TSR 1 and TSI 1), it now offers 48 free-to-air or free-to-view TV channels in Switzerland. According to the website, other channels will be added in the future.

Availability

The service is currently restricted to Switzerland, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom, but is expected to expand to other European countries, (with Austria, Belgium, Germany and Poland being at the top of that list) then to Canada and the USA while adding fee-based channels to its list. It is also designed to deliver specific channels to specific audiences thanks to an IP recognition system geographically identifying the user (hence the restriction to a few countries for the time being).

List of Channels

Complete list of channels available for free in Switzerland, as of May 2007:

Al Jazeera ARD arte BBC World Bloomberg Television Canale 5 CNBC Europe CNN International DMAX DSF Euronews Eurosport France 2 France 3 France 4

France 5 France 24 Italia 1 ITV1 Kabel Eins M6 MTV Schweiz n-tv ORF1 ORF2 Pro7 Rai Uno Rai Due Rai Tre Rete 4

RTL RTL II Sat.1 SF 1 SF zwei SF info Super RTL Schweiz TF1 TSI 1 TSI 2 TSR 1 TSR 2 TV Gusto TVE Internacional VIVA

VOX WDR ZDF

As for Denmark, the list as of April 2007 is as follows:

• ARD
• DR1
• DR2
• NRK1
• NRK2
• SVT1
• SVT2
• TV2
• ZDF

As for The UK, the list as of June 2007 is as follows:

• BBC One
• BBC Two
• BBC Three
• BBC Four
• BBC News 24
• BBC Parliament
• Canal 24 Horas
• CBBC Channel
• Cbeebies
• Deutsche Welle English version
• France 24 English version
• SF info
• TVE Internacional
• TVP Polonia

As for Spain, the list as of June 2007 is as follows:

• Antena 3
• Canal 24 Horas
• Cuatro
• Deutsche Welle English version
• France 24 English version
• TVE1
• TVE2
• La Sexta
• SF info
• Telecinco
• Teledeporte
• TVE International
• TVP Polonia

See Also

• IPTV
• Internet Television
• Joost
• Babelgum

External links

• Official site
• Zattoo Blog