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Content derived from Wikipedia article on Internet Television
Internet television
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Internet television (or Internet TV) is television distributed via the Internet.
Contents
1 Overview
2 History
3 Implementation
3.1 Fee based
3.2 Free
4 Barriers to Internet TV
5 Terminology
5.1 Other names for Internet television
5.2 Methods used for Internet television
5.3 Technologies used for Internet television
5.4 Software used for Internet television
5.5 Professionally produced non-rebroadcast Internet TV channels
6 Free Internet TV links No popups
7 See also
7.1 Providers
8 References
9 External links
Overview
In the past, television was only distributed via cable, satellite, or terrestrial systems. Today - with the increase in Internet connection speeds, advances in technology, the increase of total number of people online, and the decrease in connection costs - it has become increasingly common to find traditional television content accessible freely and legally over the Internet. In addition to this, new Internet-only television content has appeared which is not distributed via cable, satellite, or terrestrial systems.
Internet TV can come in many forms. For instance, it can
be watched on a regular TV (via a Set-top box), or on a computer, or on a portable device (such as a mobile phone)
show a channel 'live' (like regular TV), or allow the viewer to select a show to watch on demand (Video-on-Demand)
involve any budget - from home camcorder productions to expensive professional productions
be protected from copying, or easily duplicated as a perfect copy
be free or paid for - and may be supported by advertisements
be an interactive or passive medium
One of the barriers to wider adoption of Internet television is streaming technology, which can be of poor quality and high cost to the providers. The BBC's Dirac project seeks to address this by creating a scalable, high-quality, free codec for streaming video content over the net.
As Internet television becomes more pervasive, efforts are being made by companies such as JumpTV to develop the transmission of existing pay-TV channels to regular TV sets over the net, while retaining control over how the media is used. Such control is required in order to protect existing subscription and pay-per-view business models.
History
The first service available:
1994, US - World News Now was launched by ABC.
The most recent:
01.11.2006, Switzerland - Bluewin TV was launched by Swisscom.
17.10.2006, Germany - T-Home was launched by Deutsche Telecom.
17.08.2006, India - PIO (People of Indian Origin) TV was launched by IndiaTVLive and Archer Media, targeting the Indian diaspora.
Services on the making:
China Broadcast Live (CBL), People of Chinese Origin (PCO TV) - developed by Archer Entertainment Media Communications.
Narrowstep - pioneering technology enabling content owners and/or aggregators to build and manage niche television channels online.
Vision TV - developed by British Telecommunications.
MediaZone - a leading global online broadcaster specializing in professional content including sports, international and entertainment video programming. Its next generation Social TV platform marries premier content with unprecedented interactivity for a completely new user experience. MediaZone is a wholly owned subsidiary of NASPERS (NASDAQ:NPSN)is the global.
The Venice project - developed by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created Kazaa and Skype. It's a P2P video streaming service that will also allow smaller content producers and individuals to upload their content.
Joiningthedots.tv - developed by UK MercuryMedia, it will stream especially documentaries that don't fit the needs of the traditional factual channels.
Implementation
Internet Television services have at least two different models:
Fee based
This type of service is generally funded and supported by large telecom providers and follows the previous cable, satellite or terrestrial systems, based on a subscription fee, adding new features like high-definition TV, video on demand and digital video recording.
The usage of internet protocols to provide two-way communication will also open the way for interactivity with the TV program content, for example making it possible to choose between multiple camera angles, vote on an interactive TV show, or order a product sample.
Europe and Asia have been the leaders in implementing these Internet Television services for paying customers, which are expected to become mainstream in just a few years replacing traditional cable subscriptions. In the US the providers have not shown so much interest about this technology yet. Internet Television is a more interesting alternative to cable TV also in countries where there is a poor cable infrastructure, like India and China.
The software platform chosen by network operators to provide the most recent Internet television services has been Microsoft TV IPTV Edition, which works together with a set-top box.
These services are limited to the offer supplied by the provider meaning that you can only get on your TV set the channels and services you are paying for.
Free
Free Internet Television is available from the Web, and is accessible without the need for a set-top-box, a specific carrier nor operator.
The greatest core theme of the free Internet Television model is that it is based on the same publishing model that exists on the Web: it allows access to to a open platform, that anyone can access, use and build for, together with the development of open source software, open standards and formats.
Those that create valued and interesting video products have now the opportunity to distribute it directly to a large audience - something impossible with the previous television distributing models (closed software, closed hardware, closed network). The free model has been used around the globe by local and independent television channels aiming for niche target audiences, or to built a collaborative environment for media production, a platform for citizen's media.
Barriers to Internet TV
There are several barriers to wider adoption of internet television
Lack of set top boxes - these need the latest compression technologies (MPEG-4's H.264/AVC codec; and VC-1). Decoding chips are still new and expensive.
Incompatible standards (different software and/or hardware are required to watch different providers)
Low bandwidth to the home - a standard definition digital signal requires a 2 Mbit/s connection. High definition requires 8 Mbit/s.
Restricted bandwidth in the internet backbone (this will be a problem if many people decide to adopt internet TV)
Streaming technology - which can be of poor quality and high cost to the providers.
Old media meeting new media - licensing regulations, existing deals, and uncertainty over payment, security, and advertising has led to only slow steps being taken by the companies which own the TV content.
Either VC-1 or MPEG-4's H.264/AVC codecs are being used for downloadable video (as also used in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVDs). For streaming video content, the BBC's Dirac project seeks to address quality and incompatibility by creating a scalable, high-quality, free codec.
Terminology
Internet television is a fledgling industry and some of the general terms are buzzwords. An Internet television show is transmitted over the Internet using an Internet Protocol (IP), and Internet TV is sometimes called IPTV. However, IPTV is more general than Internet TV.[citation needed]
Internet television is often defined as content being transmitted over an internet (either on the public Internet or on other networks such as closed corporate or private broadband networks).
On the other hand, there is also disagreement about using IPTV as a short-form for Internet television, since an alternative definition and trademark already exists for the initialization. [citation needed] And in that case, IPTV in just a part of Internet television.
Other names for Internet television
IPTV - Internet Protocol Television
Television on the desktop (TOD)
TV over IP - Television over Internet Protocol
Vlog For video web logging.
Vodcast For video on demand.
Methods used for Internet television
Broadcatching For a P2P TV paradigm in use today.
Streaming
Technologies used for Internet television
BitTorrent
Dirac
HTTP
Nullsoft Streaming Video, a technology used by AOL to deliver Internet based video content.
RSS
RSS enclosure
RTSP
SMIL
Theora
Software used for Internet television
CoolStreaming P2P TV software (currently down due to copyright issues)
Democracy Player
KatchTV
Max-TV Online
Microsoft TV IPTV Edition
Peercast
SopCast
telvOS Television Operating System by Narrowstep Inc.
tVadio
TVants
TVUnetworks P2P TV Software
Professionally produced non-rebroadcast Internet TV channels
18 Doughty Street
Cycling.tv
RockMeTV.com
Network2
Free Internet TV links No popups
Network2 a place to view independent on-line content free [1]Streamick [2]FreeTube [3]Channelchooser [4]Girard Network TV
See also
Interactive television
Digital television
Webcast For more about general issues in transmitting video data over networks.
Web TV For more about moving regular pay-tv channels to internet-based delivery
P2PTV For more about P2P internet TV
JumpTV For more about regular tv broadcasted on the Internet
Providers
Network2.tv Your guide to TV on the internet
JumpTV Worldwide delivers its subscribers full-screen news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis with over 190 channels from 65+ countries, on a computer anywhere as it is accessible through the WWW.
PlanetVu streams ethnic based live television to its subscribers in real-time to a computer, set-top box, or media pc and is accessible from anywhere via the internet.
Apple's iTunes Music Store in the US & UK sells episodes of popular TV series for download over the internet, as well as music videos. These can be played on computers or Apple's iPod (on the iPod's screen or to a TV).
The Now TV service in Hong Kong is delivered to a television through a set top box. It comes over the now Broadband network (the same connection is used for Internet access).
Homechoice in the UK provides Video-on-Demand as well as the Freeview TV service (live TV) to televisions via a set-top box. It is only available to homes on a specific broadband network.
Google Video offers free and paid streamed content worldwide to computers.
YouTube offers free progressively downloaded content worldwide to computers.
ITV Local offers free streamed high quality content using telvOS.
3G mobile phone providers often offer TV content for download or watching live
References
External links
IPTV news
IPTV online
ITU IPTV Focus Group
Swisscom launches Bluewin TV IDG News Service 2006-10-31
BBC closes out deal for showing UK TV over P2P The Register 2006-06-08
IPTV future The Register 2006-05-05
As Internet TV Aims at Niche Audiences, the Slivercast Is Born New York Times 2006-03-12
IPTV vs Internet Video
PERFECT CLARITY
Cycling TV
Eyetelly IPTV: It's on the box! News, views and information on IPTV and iTV appliances for work and play.
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_television
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Content derived from Wikipedia article on P2P TV
P2PTV
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The term P2PTV refers to peer-to-peer software applications designed to redistribute video streams on a p2p network, typically TV stations across the world. The draw to these applications is significant because they have the potential to make every TV channel in the world global.
The benefit of using peer-to-peer technology is similar to that of standard peer-to-peer software. Each user, while downloading, is also uploading, thus contributing to the overall available bandwidth. The video quality of the channels typically depend on how many users are watching; the video quality is better if there are more users.
Many P2PTV applications make use of the BitTorrent technology.
The potential of the technology is however limited by multiple factors, rendering the technology almost unusable for professional usage[verification needed]:
No QoS. Compared to unicasting (server-client architecture used in streaming media) no one can guarantee a reliable stream, since every user is a rebroadcaster. Each viewer is a part of a chain of viewers which all can have negative influence on the reliability of the stream (by having a slow PC, a filled downlink or uplink or a unreliable consumer grade DSL or cable connection.
Over 40% extra data overhead compared to unicasting. To bypass the QoS issue, P2P networks have multiple peers send multiple traffic to other peers, introducing extra data overhead for retransmits, communication and redundancy. Dutch ISP's have calculated the traffic needed to send a P2PTV stream to a number of users, and measured 40% additional traffic usage compared to unicasting an RTSP stream to a similar audience[citation needed]. Multicasting (although not a widespread internet technology) is even more efficient than unicasting, since one stream can feed a virtually unlimited number of viewers.
No control. Broadcasters prefer to be able to limit access to their content based on regions, and would like good data on viewer behaviour, such as volume, trends and viewing time. Compared to server based technologies P2PTV offers no control and no viewer feedback at all.
P2PTV may seem a more affordable solution for broadcasters, but actually the costs are moved from the broadcasters to the distributers, and from a macro view costs are increased instead of decreased. In the long term this is not of interest of the end user, since increased network costs will be charged to end users.
For professional broadcasters and distributers, a hybrid solution is used for many years. Distribution servers are not centrally installed, but are rolled out in a smart, decentralized way. A central management facility manages content distribution over multiple peer server (also known als Edge server or Cache) redistributes, strategically located near user swarms (generally popular access ISP networks), manages load balancing, redirection of users, view reporting and QoS. Examples are Akamai and VDO-X. Akamai still has to buy high cost transit traffic, but the VDO-X model introduces on-network distribution per ISP and no actual Internet distribution, introducing extreme lower distribution costs, distribution rights management and the highest QoS possible.
Although some projects target broadcasters (see below), most P2PTV technology is used to redistribute TV channels on the Internet without a proper licence to do so.
The majority of applications available broadcast mainly asian TV stations, with the exception of TVUPlayer, which carries a number of North American stations such as ESPN, ABC, Fox and CBS.
See also
Internet television
IPTV
Webcast
Applications
Alluvium
CoolStreaming
Cybersky-TV
Feidian
Max-TV Online
Octoshape
PeerCast
PPLive
SopCast
TVants
TVUPlayer
PPMate
Zattoo (licenced)
External links
PK's P2PTV Guide
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2PTV
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Content derived from Wikipedia article on 3D Movie Software
3D Movie (software)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A 3D Movie is a computer file for a digital movie that uses Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, or any of its expansions, such as Doraemon 3DMM, Nickelodeon 3DMM, and v3DMM. 3D Movies can only be viewed in these products, and the creative of AVI or MPEG files from theme requires third-party software.
The file formats used by 3D Movies are .3mm and .vmm.
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Content derived from Wikiepedia article on Movie Making Software
Movie Making Software
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie making software is a type of software that allows users to create Hollywood-style movies using a personal computer by capturing and editing digital video, usually obtained from a digital camcorder, and burning it onto a DVD.
Several software programs can be classified in this category, including Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker, GEAR Software's GEAR Video, Pinnacle Systems' MediaSuite, and muvee's muveeNow and muvee autoProducer.
See also
Video editing software
External Links
Windows Movie Maker
GEAR Video
Pinnacle Systems
muvee
[www.ibloks.com]
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Making_Software
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Content derived from Wikipedia article on Video Editing Software, Video editing software
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Video editing software is application software that handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, add special effects and transitions, and sometimes includes the ability to encode the video for creation of a DVD, Web video, mobile phone video or video podcast. Video editing software generally also allows for some limited editing of the audio clips that accompany the video or, at least, the ability to sync the audio with the video.
Lightworks, Avid and more recently, Apple's Final Cut Pro are pioneers in video editing software and have a great influence on how films and TV programmes are edited. These systems use custom hardware for video processing.
With the availability of commodity video processing hardware, specialist video editing cards, and computers designed specifically for non-linear video editing, many software packages are now available to work with them.
See also
Film editing
List of video topics
List of video editing software
Comparison of video editing software
Non linear editing
Screencast
External links
Collection of free trial downloads of the main editing software packages
GNU/Linux software
Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_editing_software
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