subject: Online Tv Streaming: New Technology Unloaded [print this page] It is nature of science to challenge its previous technology. In the early 1990s the radio challenged the newspaper, the television challenged the radio after that and now, it seems, the television has been challenged itself..by online TV.
What?
Online TV (also known as Internet Protocol Television or IPTV and internet TV access) streaming is a technology where we can watch live broadcast of a program, much like the TV itself. The programs and shows are broadcasted through different channels through different websites and the video is delivered to us through the web. The transmission part is almost similar to any website visiting but differences are there. Also online TV broadcasting differs from downloading in general. Because this process has its root in the internet, the TV becomes global.
How?
The free online TV streams utilize a process that is different than traditional TV viewing. In TV, the most common form was, and still is, the cable TV. The cable TV employs the technique where the cable is connected to your TV set at home and the other end goes to the nearest cable office, which serves as an antenna that receives broadcasted signals.
The signal is then sent and interpreted in our TV sets and we can watch the video. But an online TV is one where the video (broadcasted through a website) travels through an internet connectivity line or cable in the form of data and reaches our computer and we can view it then. The state when a free TV internet is still receiving signals from the server or the website that is broadcasting them, it is called streaming.
Advantages
Free online TV streams are useful tools today. Because any viewer is able to view any video of any country or region, the process is globalised. For example, a person in India is able to view a video at the same time when an American channel is broadcasting it and people in America are watching. Any information for example news is available on the global basis.
Moreover, an online streaming TV is important in terms of availability. Cost can also be a factor. Internet connectivity may be cheaper than cable price and all you need to watch a TV is an internet connection. Moreover, it is not even an issue of buying one of those TV cards, because you are not watching the good old-fashioned TVs, the free TV internet software takes care of that, too.
Because the data travels over a large distance in a negligible amount of time, it is important that the broadcasting server has a large bandwidth and the viewer has a high speed internet connection. Apart from this the free online TV streams are an exceptional advantageous technology for entertainment purposes, which deserves to be taken advantage of.
