What exactly is IPTV? The following article deals with the conditions and principles that are required for Internet TV.
During this year's IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin in early September IPTV is certainly one of the specific issues, because many visitors are interested in a targeted way to join the new, multimedia world of Internet television.
Basically, we distinguish between two variants IPTV - and the transmission of TV program on an Internet line as well as a set-top box in a closed system. In addition, there is also the Web-TV. IPTV will be disseminated by means of moving images over the Internet Protocol, ie via Internet transfer standard. Thus, we get more channels on all the Internet protocol dominant devices. Unbelievable this you can now receive many channels, including so-called special-interest channels for example, certain sports, cooking, travel or hobbies. Currently the spread is however limited in Germany to about 35,000 households.
The German Telekom, however, has extended its offer on ADSL2 + connections in the area of IPTV. It is fast DSL connections with 16,000 kbit / s, so that a larger customer base can now use IPTV. However, the data rates in high-resolution HDTV (HDTV is the acronym for High Definition TV, a global digital TV standard in widescreen with excellent shape, great depth and excellent color quality.) So high that only VDSL customers (translation with VDSL is faster than with ADSL (16 Mbps) and is located at 25 Mbps up to 52 Mbit / s) is given this opportunity. Telekom is currently working on converting to VDSL in order to retain market share and attract new ones. Customers are medium term a package available that Internet telephony (VoIP) and television included. Then not only of the well-known television Emfpang is possible, but from a digital video library, films can be selected (video on demand).Between VDSL network and a television (the best case, however, may pose a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels should be called a full-HDTV) has only one media receiver to run. Multiple video inputs and outputs are available on this device. An HDMI interface is HDTV capable.
The name stands for the triple-play combination of TV, internet and telephone via a pipe.