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IPTV is television transmission technology that delivers TV signal over Internet connection, such as DSL line.
Often the term IPTV is confused with videos that can be watched using a Internet browser. Instead, IPTV works exactly like a terrestial/aerial or cable TV broadcast in sense that it is not "on-demand" by nature, but delivers the same content to all viewers at the same time. Furthermore, PC is rarely used to receive the IPTV transmission, but instead, a stand-alone "set-top box" is used to decode the signal and then deliver the video to a standard TV set.
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Date: 5 May 2008 05:05 | 2 comments
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Date: 3 May 2008 22:05
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Date: 26 Mar 2008 06:03 | 5 comments
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Date: 13 Mar 2008 19:03 | 16 comments
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Date: 5 Mar 2008 06:03 | 11 comments
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Date: 27 Feb 2008 05:02 | 24 comments
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Date: 26 Feb 2008 06:02 | 19 comments
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Date: 24 Feb 2008 04:02 | 3 comments
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Date: 23 Feb 2008 23:02 | 11 comments
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Date: 21 Feb 2008 12:02 | 1 comment
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Date: 19 Feb 2008 05:02 | 3 comments
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Date: 14 Feb 2008 04:02 | 18 comments
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Date: 13 Feb 2008 02:02 | 11 comments
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After last month's announcement that the Apple TV would see an update, the "Take 2" upgrade is finally available.
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Date: 12 Feb 2008 23:02 | 10 comments
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Date: 29 Jan 2008 22:01 | 2 comments
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Date: 24 Jan 2008 15:01 | 3 comments
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On Tuesday Microsoft reached and agreement with South Korean firms Daum Communications Corp. and Celrun to establish IPTV service in that country. Daum will be supplying content for viewing ...
Date: 24 Jan 2008 02:01 | 2 comments
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Date: 19 Jan 2008 22:01 | 1 comment
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Today at CES, Microsoft and BT jointly announced that UK Xbox 360 owners will be able to access the popular IPTV service, BT Vision, beginning this summer.
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Date: 7 Jan 2008 22:01 | 8 comments
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Date: 17 Dec 2007 22:12 | 5 comments
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Microsoft has inked a deal with India's Reliance Communications to provide their Mediaroom platform for a new IPTV venture in that country.
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Date: 5 Nov 2007 14:11 | 1 comment
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Date: 31 Oct 2007 23:10 | 4 comments
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While IPTV was all the talk at the IBC conference in Amsterdam this year, Broadcast International (BI) claims that the infrastructure for delivering on the promise of IPTV is not yet ready for ...
Date: 25 Sep 2007 22:09 | 2 comments
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Date: 11 Sep 2007 11:09 | 6 comments
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Optibase Ltd. and ZTE Corporation announced a strategic alliance to provide integrated TV over IP services. ZTE selected Optibase's Media Gateway (MGW) platforms to provide advanced MPEG-4/H.264 ...
Date: 25 Aug 2007 21:08 | 2 comments
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Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that AT&T plans to use its Sun Fire servers and storage arrays to power its Internet Protocol television service, called U-Verse.
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Date: 14 Jul 2007 03:07 | 2 comments
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According to figures from iSuppli, the total number of global IPTV subscribers will rise to 103 million in 2011, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 92.5% up from 3.9 million ...
Date: 7 Apr 2007 22:04
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Date: 23 Mar 2007 03:03
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Microsoft Corp. will show off the Xbox 360 IPTV features at next month's Connected Home exhibition in London. The event will take place between March 5th and 7th. Ed Graczyk, Microsoft's Worldwide ...
Date: 22 Feb 2007 21:02 | 11 comments
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AT&T is delighted with the performance of its Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service so far, and plans to ramp up deployments in the coming year. Chief Executive Officer Ed Whitacre spoke ...
Date: 28 Jan 2007 20:01 | 4 comments
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Date: 7 Jan 2007 07:01 | 11 comments
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Redmond is ablaze with new ideas of how to, once again try and break into the US television market and share some of the wealth that cable and satellite companies garner. After such failed attempts ...
Date: 13 Oct 2006 11:10 | 10 comments
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Date: 31 May 2006 23:05 | 2 comments
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A research firm has revealed that despite only having limited availability, about 56 of adults in the United States said they knew about IPTV, and a substantial number of those people said they ...
Date: 15 Feb 2006 05:02 | 6 comments
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Phone Giant BellSouth has announced it has begun trials on Microsoft's Internet Television (IPTV) software to determine whether or not it could be used in their upcoming Video service. The company ...
Date: 7 Jan 2005 05:01
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Date: 11 Sep 2004 14:09 | 1 comment
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