Why We Should All Embrace IPTV by:John King

IPTV technology is starting to change the way many people view video media

. Offering some major advantages over traditional cable or satellite broadcast methods, IPTV streams its content from the internet. The media provided can then be customised to suit a wide variety of applications. For example, schools, hospitals, and hotels can benefit greatly from the capabilities this service provides.

The IPTV Solution

Whether you are looking to add interactivity, broadcast to a large number of people without added cost, or want to increase picture quality and video choices, this new technology can provide a solution for all of those demands and more.

In Hotels

For hotels, the benefits of IPTV technology are tremendous. Depending on what you wish to offer your guests, you can provide on-demand and live access to movies, television shows, and even games. You have the option to provide these free of charge to every room or else to charge based on each selection. For hotel guests, being able to use on-demand capabilities is way more convenient than traditional television as throughout the day they are in and out of their rooms, making it difficult to watch a programme at a set time. You will also have the ability to broadcast hotel information as well as giving guests the facility to view their billing details via the television.

In Schools

IPTV technology can also be useful in school settings as well. Instead of basic morning announcements over the traditional P.A. system, IPTV makes it remarkably easy to broadcast video content that reaches every single room throughout the whole school. This is also useful for sharing educational video content with many classrooms at once, without the need to shuffle around videos and DVDs. Instead, teachers can have access to a variety of educational programs whenever they need them. This technology also provides a number of options for interactivity that will more likely than not be creatively implemented into many schools in the future.

In Hospitals

Another application for this technology is in hospitals. With a large number of patients and rooms, it can be difficult to provide a variety of programming to suit everyone's tastes. As patients are typically confined to their beds for a long period of time, television and movies provides a much-needed distraction through entertainment. Although conventional cable systems are not easily streamed to such a large number of rooms, IPTV makes this possible at a very low cost, without the need for extensive, invasive wiring running throughout the building. With its increasingly growing variety of applications, IPTV technology certainly appears to be the television for the future.

And In Bathrooms

A really exciting and stylish use of this technology is its use in waterproof bathroom televisions. The latest IP-Enabled versions use IP technology to power them, making the practicality of these luxury wall-mounted TV screens even better.

About the author

The author is based in the UK and works in the new media industry. He highly recommends visiting the TV Over LAN website for excellent information on IPTV technology and IPTV products. Visit them at: http://www.tvoverlan.com

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