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Originally Posted by Admin
Internet protocol television (IPTV) uses IP as the transport platform to send video signals to the television via high-speed Internet connections such as fiber-to-the-X connections (FTTx) and/or next-generation digital subscriber lines (xDSL). With this technology, consumers will be in complete control of what, when, and where they watch television programming.
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I'm not quite sure if this message indicates that
Sadoun is or will be offering hardware capable of dealing with this technology, but I am starting to get overwhelmed with the many acronyms associated with related technology. I'm curious how all this fits in with display of real time transport streams in general, and also VOD and IP/DVB transmissions? Ie how does this relate to streaming of .mpg files from computers or the FTA sat signals, which can be re-transmitted over a network and displayed on TV with the aid of devices like a Roku-HD1000, or by cheaper devices like MediaMVP, or PC based devices? Or does what is described above only relate to VOD (video on demand) type services?
I'm somewhat interested because I know that satellite transmission of video on demand type and other IP/DVB techniques is becoming more of a trend, and I am curious whether there is any consumer technology that will be capable of displaying video of this sort, and if so, will it also be capable of displaying real time video from other generic sources or is technology likely to be only capable of dealing with one particular {subscription} service?
I fear that my question is even more confused than I am.