The Internet is changing and so is the Television

Video on demand, Triple Play(voice,data and video), Internet Television, the new age thing called IPTV.

Lets get started with what exactly is IPTV,

IPTV describes a system capable of receiving and displaying a video stream encoded as a series of Internet Protocol packets. If you've ever watched a video clip on your computer, you've used an IPTV system in its broadest sense. When most people discuss IPTV, though, they're talking about watching traditional channels on your television, where people demand a smooth, high-resolution, lag-free picture, and it's the telcos that are jumping headfirst into this market. Once known only as
phone companies, the telcos now want to turn a "triple play" of voice, data, and video that will retire the side and put them securely in the batter's box.

The Telco majors, the world over, have laid thousands of kilometres of optic fibre. Closer home, there are nearly 350,000 route kilometers of optical fibre laid by BSNL, Reliance Infocomm, Bharti Tele-ventures and VSNL.

PTV subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) are expected to grow to over 20 million by 2009. Siemens maintains the global market for IPTV technology could touch $1 billion by 2009.

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