What is the difference between IPTV and Internet TV?

The primary difference is the way in which the content is delivered.  While Internet TV travels over the open, public, global Internet, IPTV uses a private, managed network. 

or in other words, IPTV is a technology that allows television services to be delivered over a proprietary broadband packet data network using the internet protocol suite. While Internet TV, on the other hand, is a television broadcast service distributed over the internet.

1. IPTV is multicasting of content within the managed network while Internet TV is broadcasting on un-managed(internet) network.

2. As the name suggests Internet TV leverages the public Internet to deliver video content to end users. IPTV uses secure dedicated private networks to deliver video content to consumers. These private networks are managed, dimensioned and operated by service provider.

3. IPTV delivery is a higher quality, more reliable, and more consistent viewing experience while Best-effort Internet video can be subject to delays due to lower bandwidth, high traffic or poor connection quality.

4. A digital set-top box is generally used to access and decode the video content delivered via an IPTV system whereas a PC is nearly always used to access Internet TV services.

5. Since the internet is more open than a propriety network, the dedicated home computer may also require digital rights management certification in order to ensure compliance with copyright laws. In the IPTV service case, copyright laws are handled during the contract negotiations between the operator and the media company providing the material (films, tv shows etc…).

6. User Charges: A significant percentage of video content delivered over the public Internet is available to consumers free of charge. IPTV services on other hand are provided for a fee which could be a monthly subscription and which could include other bundled offerings.

7. Media Content: In the past, a good share of Internet TV video content was user-generated. Today user-generated content falls under the term of Web TV while Internet TV is similar to a classical broadcast service but through the internet. IPTV, on the other hand, has always distributed traditional television shows and movies supplied principally by the established media companies.

When talking about internet television services one will stumble over two terms: IPTV and Internet Television. While both are technologies used for television broadcasting there are significant differences between them in broadcasting technology and in the content that is available.

Internet television and IPTV we tend to treat them as synonymous terms because Internet television represents a stream of IP datagrams that delivers MPEG frames generated by a television station. Although the two terms can be treated as synonyms, in reality, they should be used to describe two different technologies.

IPTV is the term for the commercial television broadcasting services offered by telecom companies. It is based on the fundamental internet protocols including IP, TCP/UDP that is totally controlled by the service provider (usually the network owner.

Internet Television is another name for broadcasting video data over the internet but is totally different from IPTV... To efficiently make use of a worldwide transport medium Internet Television uses other techniques than IPTV to spread the signal. These can be divided into two main groups of streaming and p2ptv techniques. The main difference between ordinary broadcasting and IPTV is that just one channel is transmitted to the customer.

As mentioned before two main groups of techniques are used: The classic client/server approach called Streaming and the peer-to-peer approach called P2PTV. Both have advantages and disadvantages and are used in different scenarios.

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