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The main advantages of broadband Internet TV are:

A wider audience can be reached by broadcasters without h...

With the increasing expansion of broadband Internet in most household, it is an all-natural phenomenon for services that have traditionally been delivered via analog methods to be alternately delivered via Internet Protocol (IP). One of these brilliant companies could be the broadcast of television programs via broadband Internet in place of radio waves. This really is called Broadband Internet TELEVISION.

The major advantages of broadband Internet TELEVISION are:

Broadcasters can reach a wider audience and never having to be worried about the extra cost needed, since the person pays for the broadband access. This means a bigger chance to generate more income from advertising.

The audience need perhaps not be in the home to be able to watch his favorite TV shows since all he will need is Access to the internet. Again, because the Internet is indeed pervasive, it now becomes possible to be anywhere in the world and still be up-to-date with the latest news, sitcoms and other SHOWS that you would normally watch in the home. This provides rise to the opportunity for broadcasters (let's assume that their business design doesn't depend mostly on advertising revenues) to charge subscriptions for remote access to their shows. Using encryption, data for shows. The audience can be selective as to the shows he/she wants or allows his kids to watch. Filters may be placed on block or limit access to particular shows.

You can find, needless to say, disadvantages to broadband Internet TELEVISION. As an example, in order to access broadband Internet TV, obviously, assumes that there you've access to broadband Internet with rates of at least 256kbps. It is a relatively slower speed than what was required a few years ago when 512kbps was the minimum broadband speed was required. Greater compression technology makes streaming video at lower rates possible. Nevertheless, broadband access continues to be a requirement.

Yet another problem of broadband Internet TV is that it needs that you sometimes have a computer with the correct decoding software, or perhaps a set-top box with decoding software. If you want to use your television set whilst the display method the latter is necessary.

Also the broadband Internet TV output resolution is inferior compared to that of radio broadcast technology. It is because larger resolution requires more file storage area that means more bandwidth to get a real-time streaming video experience. Also, the bigger the picture, the finer the resolution needs to be so that it doesn't break up throughout display. Again, this equals bigger bandwidth requirements and bigger file dimensions.

Broadband Internet TV emerges in two modes: Free and Subscription Based. The Free mode is the akin to the traditional free-to-air television programming, where all you want to have is just a television set configured to the broadcast system locally (e.g., NTSC, PAL/SECAM, etc.), a television antenna to recapture the broadcast, and electricity. Subscription mode is comparable to the type of cable TELEVISION, where a fee is paid for a group of channels, with additional charges levied for premium channels on a or monthly basis.