Alexander Will explained the IPTV offer being provided by Deutsche Telekom. The services offer 150 TV channels and Internet access. The use made of the TV channels is many time more than the use of Internet content. This may be due to ease of access and familiarity. The services can be switched on remotely. Viewers away from home can, for example, remotely programme recording of TV programmes, so they are available when they return. Hey, I’d like that! There is navigation system for over 2000+ radio stations. (I know personally that normal Internet Radios need a PhD to navigate). You can also share photos with others. There will be a DT ‘App store’ too. Is this the shape of IPTV to come – combining TV, Internet, and the ‘App’ environment?
What can IPTV provide? #dvbw11
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09/03/2011 at 11:52
don’t want to sound to negative here, but the main problem is that’s another “walled garden” based on proprietary technology; yet another STB and so on.
BTW Italian Telecomitalia is pushing a similar concept with “Cubovision the box AND the service”, http://www.cubovision.it/ ..and Connected TV are going the same “that’s my own” path.
sadly, that’s sign someway of a DVB forum failure, but we NEED to make GEM/MHP a common standard become successful by its technical and commercial merit.
The latter point is key here: for the telco to adopt it, MHP should “relax” a bit the broadcasting centrality and be “equally balanced” between broadcast and broadband. are we ready to acknowledge it?
ehi, i’m not saying we should give power back to final user..
10/03/2011 at 15:35
It’s really the battle for the hearts and minds of the public between managed and unmanaged networks, isn’t it? It is inevitable that the public will have to pay something (a subscription) for a managed network, and it will have to offer a service well beyond that available with OTT to be succesful. Maybe this will not be possible?