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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 BBC's the iPlayer, in and limited to the United Kingdom.
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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 BBC's the iPlayer, in and limited to the United Kingdom.
Concept
Internet television allows viewers to choose the show they want to watch from a library of shows. 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
Portal: Internet Portal: Television
- 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
- Babelgum
- First on Mars (website)
- Hitz Music
- Joost
- Miro Media Player
- TWiT.tv
- Move Networks
- Reeltime.com
- Hulu
- TVCatchup
- Revision3
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- IPTV vs Internet Video
- Online tv channels
TFCnow, ABS-CBN's Internet TV, Manila the Philippines
