leamspaceman
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A friend of mine has just got something called IPTV.
He pays about £10 a month and gets 4000 TV channels. He gets ALL Sky channels, ALL BT channels, ALL PPV and Box Office events and all in HD. He also gets hundreds of US channels and all the 3pm Saturday football matches. It's all delivered over his internet connection and from what I saw it works flawlessly with no buffering. Channel changing was instantaneous.
Now, I know this is almost certainly illegal... but how are the suppliers of these services getting away with it?
And from a technical perspective, how the hell does it work? By that I mean where do the streams come from? Where do they originate from?
How can somebody who has Sky possibly stream every channel they get simultaneously and presumably get paid by the IPTV providers for doing so?
Is this yet another case of the illegal side of things being technologically ahead of the legal side? By that I mean are Sky now selling an outdated model by delivering their programming through a dish when they could now deliver it over an internet connection and make it more flexible?
I'd never heard of IPTV until I saw it at my friend's place... I think I'm seriously behind the times!
He pays about £10 a month and gets 4000 TV channels. He gets ALL Sky channels, ALL BT channels, ALL PPV and Box Office events and all in HD. He also gets hundreds of US channels and all the 3pm Saturday football matches. It's all delivered over his internet connection and from what I saw it works flawlessly with no buffering. Channel changing was instantaneous.
Now, I know this is almost certainly illegal... but how are the suppliers of these services getting away with it?
And from a technical perspective, how the hell does it work? By that I mean where do the streams come from? Where do they originate from?
How can somebody who has Sky possibly stream every channel they get simultaneously and presumably get paid by the IPTV providers for doing so?
Is this yet another case of the illegal side of things being technologically ahead of the legal side? By that I mean are Sky now selling an outdated model by delivering their programming through a dish when they could now deliver it over an internet connection and make it more flexible?
I'd never heard of IPTV until I saw it at my friend's place... I think I'm seriously behind the times!