Streaming television
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Internet television (Internet TV or iTV) is television service distributed via the Internet. It has become very popular at the end of the first decade of the 21st century due to services such as the TVCatchup (in and limited to the United Kingdom).
Concept
Internet television allows viewers to choose the show or the TV channel they want to watch from a library of shows or from a channel directory[1]. The 2 forms of viewing Internet television are streaming and downloading onto a computer. The video may be broadcast with a peer-to-peer network(P2PTV), which doesn't rely on a single website's streaming.
It differs from IPTV in that IPTV offerings, while also based on the IP protocol stacks, are typically offered on discrete service provider networks, highly managed to provide guaranteed quality of service and good bandwidth, and usually requiring a special IPTV set-top-box. However, some definitions of IPTV such as that defined by the ITU and the DVB, use the term IPTV as a superset of both 'managed' IPTV and Internet TV.
Other names for Internet television
- Television on the desktop (TOD)
- TV over IP - Television over Internet Protocol
- Vlog For video web logging.
- Vodcast For video on demand.
- Web TV (not to be confused with the Microsoft/MSN WebTV service), which refers to original episodic Web television programming
- Over-the-top TV
- NET TV (by Philips B.V.)
Methods used for Internet television
- Broadcatching For a P2PTV paradigm in use today.This model can save the cost of Internet TV service provider.
- Streaming from a single website.
Technologies used for Internet television
- BitTorrent
- Dirac
- HTTP
- Nullsoft Streaming Video, a technology used by AOL to deliver Internet based video content.
- RSS
- RSS enclosure
- RTSP
- SMIL
- Theora
- WTVML
See also
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- Category:Internet television channels
- Content delivery network
- Digital television
- Interactive television
- Internet radio
- Internet Television in Australia
- List of streaming tv in Italy
- P2PTV
- Television network
- Web television
- Webcast
- Web Show
- Babelgum
- First on Mars (website)
- Hitz Music
- Joost
- Miro Media Player
- TWiT.tv
- Move Networks
- Reeltime.com
- Hulu
- TVCatchup
- Revision3
References
- Ahrens Frank, ABC encouraged by Internet TV Trial. June 2006. Washington. pgd2
- McLuhan,Marshall, Understanding Media; The Extensions of Man. New York;Mcgraw Hill, 1964
TFCnow, ABS-CBN's Internet TV, Manila the Philippines
External links
- IPTV future The Register 2006-05-05
- As Internet TV Aims at Niche Audiences, the Slivercast Is Born New York Times 2006-03-12
- IPTV vs Internet Video