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By Patrick Pfeffer and Susan Tucker I noticed that the subscriber number for IPTV differ greatly from research company to research company. When I dug a little deeper, I realized that the definitions of what IPTV actually is differs quite a lot: Some include Video-On-Demand (VoD) offerings because they are bundled with IPTV offerings; others [...]
IPTV, though already in its second generation, is still in adolescence mode. While we can come up with a plethora of predictions for the future how TV might or might not look like, the near term meta-topics beyond mobility and hot applications are middleware, security, web2.0, and advertisement.
The definition of IPTV seems to be ambiguous – either because out of common misunderstanding of technology, out of ignorance, or on purpose. We differentiate between first generation of IPTV, second generation of IPTV, and TelcoTV. IPTV is not (yet) VoD, a transport mechanism, web TV or Internet TV, or Mobile TV.
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