Zattoo
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Developer(s) | University of Michigan and Zattoo Inc. |
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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.[1]
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[2]) 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:
As for Denmark, the list as of April 2007 is as follows:
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
Notes
- ^ "Coming Soon". Retrieved 2007-06-08.
- ^ "Happy Birthday Zattoo". Retrieved 2007-06-08.