What is the added value of IPTV?
There is no longer a need for dishes, wires, connections, or expensive costs! Just a fair-speed internet connection, gives you all channels around the globe, but how?
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Get to more about the IPTV system, which ensures all the entertainment you wish, but what is this service and how does it work?
The idea of this system came at a time when everyone has always become busy!
IPTV has been developed to guarantee two things:
- To make life easier & provide all the available options in the online television experience.
- To make your favorite programs material that can be accessed at any time through simple steps similar to browsing your favorite website across the web.
What I should know about this service?
This system has been developed to be a smart digital alternative to traditional digital broadcasting via satellite and air cables, so now we should know that the IPTV system is an abbreviation for (Internet Protocol Television), a service that uses the Internet in order to transmit TV broadcasts with audio and video from the service provider.
The service is directly transmitted to your laptop computer, or even to your mobile phone, through a specific server.
IPTV types:
There are 3 main types of IPTV:
VOD
It is a video-on-demand service, where you can watch any program, movie, or event you want by choosing from a huge database provided by the service provider, it may be a paid service, a Netflix service for example, or free like many other channels and radio stations.
Time-shifting
Designed to watch programs later, at a convenient time for you to choose. Through that system, you can watch or download those programs to watch them whenever you want, programs, which were original, displayed a week ago, a month ago, or even a year ago.
You can watch through video players or apps on the channel’s official website. (Shahid.net, MBC, and BBC) are the most important examples of this system.
Live broadcast
You can watch whatever you want at the same time as the original show; BEIN ON DEMAND service is one of the most famous examples of this type, where you can watch a live broadcast of football matches, and all international sports events.
This was an introduction to the explanation of the IPTV system, follow us in the upcoming articles for more information on how the technology works, How it can be installed, How affordable is it, and how it is expected to replace Traditional TV by the year 2040.