IPTV Month Wrap-up

By Tsahi Levent-Levi

Categories: IPTV

October 1st, 2008

September is now over, and so is my IPTV Month here at VoIP Survivor.

I’ve tried covering various topics during this month, but ended up focusing on the applications and the future of IPTV - without neglecting the signaling and protocol side of IPTV.

There are two ways to view IPTV:

1. As a television that is connected to IP, and then the question is what additional viewing options do you get?
2. From the operator’s perspective, where triple-play and quad-play (television, voice, data and mobile) becomes prevalent; and then the question becomes what services can be deployed and combined together.

Here’s a wrap-up of posts we had here during this month, with extra posts that Sagee wrote on his Video Over Enterprise blog:

Miscellaneous

• September is IPTV Month - the initial idea around this month
• VoIP From Around the Net (IPTV related) - some posts elsewhere related to IPTV
• What is the Hub of Your Home? The TV, Set-top Box, Gaming Console? - now that IPTV is coming, what is the center of our home? Is there is such a thing at all?

Olympic Games

• Are the Olympic Games a Win for Mobile Video Content? - A short analysis of the Olympic games in Beijing and how they fared as mobile video content
• Is that HDTV in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? - Sagee’s take on mobile video content during the Olympic games

Applications and uses

• Making the Impossible (Box) - Sagee’s idea of a better TV (one that remembers every show ever produced)
• 8 Applications I’d Like to Have on my Future TV - the applications that need to be in my future TV
• Why IPTV Must be Interactive - the reasons I need those applications (IPTV needs more than TV to succeed)
• Television Must Change Because of the Internet - another vote of confidence for interactivity

Protocols and architecture

• 7 Reasons for Integrating IPTV with IMS - can’t do a month of technology without IMS
• The Architecture of IPTV in an IMS Deployment - and if we need IMS, how does it connect with IPTV?
• Will RTSP be Replaced by SIP for Streaming? - once we have IMS (and SIP), do we need RTSP at all?
• Which OS Will Rule The Set-top Box? Windows, Linux or Other? - which OS will be the central one in IPTV?

I hope you enjoyed September. See you all in October!