gigaom.com — If not today, then sometime soon, the IPTV will become a big business. The incumbent telecom operators worldwide are investing heavily in IPTV business. Infonetics Research, a Campbell, Calif.-based research firm forecasts4 that there will be 68.9 million IPTV subscribers by 2009. Bluewin TV is the latest IPTV service to launch in Europe.
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moderntenshiNov 2, 2006
I would love for IPTV to take off here in the US. Would be awesome to use my Internet connection to watch TV on both my TV in my living room, and also on my computer in my bedroom. Would probably have to set my machine up with a dual displays so I could still surf the net or work on things on one screen, while watching TV on the other. Something like this could also be a boon for the DIY market where MythTV boxes are concerned.But yeah, given the current state of broadband in the US, it's likely going to take a while. Man it sucks being a tech/gadgets freak living in the US . . . .
gu014Nov 2, 2006
16gb....thats nothing
qliphahNov 2, 2006
OK this looks like a spam advert to me... but if its only available in france then good lucking getting alot of hits
leobabyNov 2, 2006
As soon as apple releases that device that wireless device that connects to a television, things are definitely going to change for IPTV - just as they changed for podcasts.
vertinoxNov 2, 2006
@"Perhaps there will be an Illegal IPTV boom"For the life of me I can't find the old link but there was an article on digg that used torrent technology to do IPTV.It required a seeder to rip live streaming off their TV but anyone else in the world could download that stream. Its not very reliable but you could get Comedy Central and Cartoon Network that way.Unfortunately I'm locked into my lowest possible Comcast bill and still get the History Channel. I can't wait for the day where I don't have to pay my ISP for my tv viewing. I'd rather do it like VoIP and get whatever I want through other companies.
dontaskerNov 2, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://tvriver.com/">http://tvriver.com/</a> is one service provider i have used. We got a SysMaster M10 ( <a class="user" href="http://voipstore.atacomm.com/Shops/ViewItem.aspx/27934028032-53342274304.htm">http://voipstore.atacomm.com/Shops/ViewItem.aspx/27934028032-53342274304.htm</a> ) unit in for testing and we had a demo account with TVRiver. The video was really crisp and nice. You could tell it had been digitized when there was a gradiant, but over all we where VERY impressed. I even brought it home and set it up on a slower connection and was able to stram fairly high quality video.I think there is major potential in the IPTV market