IPTV: is it a practical commercial proposition?

摘要

If you have been to an IBC or an NAB tradeshow recently, you could be forgiven for thinking that all the old ways of delivering television hadrngone out of the window, to be replaced by IPTV. That clearly is not the case. So what is significant about IPTV, and what can content owners and service providers expect to make money from it?rnIPTV is, as its name suggests, TV delivered using IP - internet protocol. That does not mean video clips over the open internet (which is better called internet television). It means a dedicated service, delivering a bouquet of television channels and related services, over a broadband circuit of some sort. That circuit may well be provided by a telco or an ISP to carry other internet services simultaneously.