FTVO Free TV Online
Acronym Definition
FTVO For TabakVerOrdnung
FTVO Free Thermoplasma Volcanium
FTVO For Total Value of Opportunity
FTVO For Total Value of Ownership
FTVO Free Total Viable Organism
FTVO Free Total Volatile Organics
FTVO Free Tower Visibility
FTVO Free Trust for Voluntary Organizations
FTVO Free TV Ontario
FTVO Free Televisora de Oriente (Venezuelan TV station)
FTVO Free Óptima Televisión (Chilean TV station)
FTVO Free TV Osaka (Japanese TV station)
FTVO Free Total Value of Oranges
FTVO Free Tractor vaporising oil (an engine fuel for British tractors)
FTVO Fashion TV Online
FTVO Finish the Verse Online
FTVO First Time Video Online
FTVO Flight Test Vehicle Online
FTVO Franchise Tax voucher Online
FTVO Free to View Online
FTVO Functional Test Vehicle Online
FTVO Free TV Online
FTVO Fairchild TV Online, a Canadian Cantonese television network
FTVO Fashion TV Online, a television network
FTVO Formosa Television (FTV) Online, is one of the major TV channels and
companies in Taiwan.
FTVO Federation Television Online (Federalna Televizija), a television company
of Bosnia and Hercegovina.
FTVO Free-to-view Online, a television term for encrypted but non-subscription
television services.
FTVO First Time Videos Online, a subscription Internet pornography website that
focuses on models that are new to the industry.
FTVO FTV Online, a 1985 TV series.
FTVO Free View Point TV Online。
We have links for many of
the best free online TV:
YouTube
We had to
start with the big one.
Google paid billions of
dollar for YouTube. This is
user uploaded videos. The
presidential debate even
used YouTube.
Joost
Another much-hyped favorite from the authors
of
Skype is still in beta
stage. Good amounts of good content, great GUI,
almost glitch-free work, quality video.
Babelgum
Babelgum
is
similar
to
Joost
in
two
ways:
P2P-based
content
delivery,
and
free
but
ad-supported
content.
Zattoo
For
Europe
based
FreeTube (completely free
alternative to cable television that lets you watch
and TV shows online using just your browser.)
Hiveproductions (lists shoutcast tv
streams.)
Tape
it of the Internet (Over 2,000+
or 90,000+ episodes etc)
Streamic (More then 300 real TV
channels to choose from including NBC, ESPN,
BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and
ranked by the site users)
TVlinks (A directory that amalgamates
the most popular tv shows, cartoon & anime series.)
BabelgumBabelgum is P2P-based content delivery,
and free but ad-supported content. Channels include
news, music, documentaries, sports, animation, and
others. It takes some time to buffer it and there’s no
visible indication that it’s happening.
Zattoo
A p2p-based online television with a downloadable
client focused on European (over 50) channels.
Unfortunately, it won’t work if you’re not from one of
the supported countries.
Veoh
Veoh has a slightly different concept than other
services on this list. Their downloadable player acts
like a VCR: you can save movies to it for later viewing.
Although it’s possible to watch videos online on the
Flash version of the Veoh player, the focus is on
offline (or at least desktop) viewing, and videos longer
than 45 minutes can be viewed only on the desktop
player. Available videos include both user generated
content as well as professionally produced, sometimes
copyrighted stuff.
NGTV
NGTV, which is short for No Good TV. it’s similar to what kids see on TV everyday: lots of
music & entertainment, lots of foul language, and long,
long intros for every episode
PPStream (Sports, movies - all in one please.
Just choose a show from the list of available
channels)
ABC (Watch popular shows like Lost, Desperate
Housewives, Alias etc online)
PeekVid (Over 700 episodes of popular shows such
as 24, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy.
Shows can be downloaded)
PPlive
(a popular service for watching many foreign
channels)
TV-Video (All the latest TV shows as they aired
including 24, Smallville, Prison Break, Lost etc)
TVU Player (TVU is a nifty little player that
offers users a variety of channels that can be used
to watch normal TV or Sport. US channels are also
found on this player.)
Chooseandwatch
(It’s a free TV portal where you can watch more than
250 online TV channels. Some of them have to be
good.)
Channelking (Channel King provides the
best selection of free Internet TV channels. Free
broadband TV channels from around the world enable
you to watch TV from anywhere with broadband.)
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system
where a digital television service is delivered by
using Internet Protocol over a network
infrastructure, which may include delivery by a
broadband connection. A general definition of IPTV
is television content that, instead of being
delivered through traditional broadcast and cable
formats, is received by the viewer through the
technologies used for computer networks.
For residential users, IPTV is often provided in
conjunction with Video on Demand and may be bundled
with Internet services such as Web access and VoIP.
The commercial bundling of IPTV, VoIP and Internet
access is referred to as "Triple Play" service
(adding mobility is called "Quadruple Play"). IPTV
is typically supplied by a service provider using a
closed network infrastructure. This closed network
approach is in competition with the delivery of TV
content over the public Internet, called Internet
Television. In businesses, IPTV may be used to
deliver television content over corporate LANs.
History
In 1994, ABC's World News Now was the first
television show to be broadcast over the Internet,
using the CU-SeeMe videoconferencing software.
Internet radio company AudioNet started the first
continuous live webcasts with content from WFAA-TV
in January, 1998 and KCTU-LP on January 10, 1998.[1]
Kingston Communications, a regional
telecommunications operator in UK, launched KIT
(Kingston Interactive Television), a DSL-based
broadband interactive TV service in September 1999
after conducting various TV and VoD trials. The
operator re-launched its VoD service in October 2001
via Yes TV, a provider of IP-based VoD service and
solutions. Kingston was one of the first companies
in the world to introduce IPTV and IP VOD over ADSL.
In the past, this technology has been restricted by
low broadband penetration. In the coming years,
however, residential IPTV is expected to grow at a
brisk pace as broadband was available to more than
200 million households worldwide in the year 2005,
projected to grow to 400 million by the year 2010.
Many of the world's major telecommunications
providers are exploring IPTV as a new revenue
opportunity from their existing markets and as a
defensive measure against encroachment from more
conventional Cable Television services. In the mean
time, there are thousands of IPTV installations
within schools, corporations, and other institutions
that do not require the use of wide area
connectivity.
It is important to note that there has historically
been many different definitions of "IPTV" including
elementary streams over IP networks, transport
streams over IP networks and a number of proprietary
systems. Although (in Mid 2007) it is premature to
say that there is a full consensus of exactly what
IPTV should mean, there is no doubt that the most
widely used definition today is for single or
multiple program transport streams which are sourced
by the same network operator that owns or directly
controls the "Final Mile" to the consumer's
premises. This control over delivery enables a
guaranteed quality of service, and also allows the
service provider to offer an enhanced user
experience such as better program guide, interactive
services etc.
By contrast "Internet TV" generally refers to
transport streams sent over IP networks (normally
the Internet)from outside the network that connects
to the users premises. An Internet TV provider has
no control over the final delivery and so broadcasts
on a "best effort" basis. Elementary streams over IP
networks and proprietary variants as used by
websites such as YouTube are now rarely considered
to be IPTV services.
Architecture
Broadcast IPTV has two major architecture forms:
free and fee based. As of June 2006, there are over
1,300 free IPTV channels available. This sector is
growing rapidly and major television broadcasters
worldwide are transmitting their broadcast signal
over the Internet. These free IPTV channels require
only an Internet connection and an Internet enabled
device such as a personal computer, HDTV connected
to a computer or even a 3G cell/mobile phone to
watch the IPTV broadcasts. See also: Internet
television Mobile TV
In December 2005, independently produced mariposaHD
became the first original IPTV broadcast available
in an HDTV format. Various Web portals offer access
to these free IPTV channels. Some cite the
ad-sponsored availability of TV series such as Lost
and Desperate Housewives as indicators that IPTV
will become more prevalent.
Because IPTV uses standard networking protocols, it
promises lower costs for operators and lower prices
for users. Using set-top boxes with broadband
Internet connections, video can be streamed to
households more efficiently than current coaxial
cable. ISPs are upgrading their networks to bring
higher speeds and to allow multiple High Definition
TV channels.
In 2006, AT&T launched its U-Verse IPTV service.
Comprised of a national head end and regional video
serving offices, AT&T offered over 300 channels in
11 cities with more to be added in 2007 and beyond.
While using IP protocols, AT&T has built a private
IP network exclusively for video transport.
Local IPTV, as used by businesses for Audio Visual
AV distribution on their company networks is
typically based on a mixture of: a) Conventional TV
reception equipment and IPTV encoders b) IPTV
Gateways that take broadcast MPEG channels and IP
wrap them to create multicast streams.
IPTV uses a two-way digital broadcast signal sent
through a switched telephone or cable network by way
of a broadband connection and a set-top box
programmed with software (much like a cable or DSS
box) that can handle viewer requests to access to
many available media sources.
Protocols
IPTV covers both live TV (multicasting) as well as
stored video (Video on Demand VOD). The playback of
IPTV requires either a personal computer or a
set-top box connected to a TV. Video content is
typically compressed using either a MPEG-2 or a
MPEG-4 codec and then sent in an MPEG transport
stream delivered via IP Multicast in case of live TV
or via IP Unicast in case of Video on Demand. IP
Multicast is a method in which information can be
sent to multiple computers at the same time. The
newly released (MPEG-4) H.264 codec is increasingly
used to replace the older MPEG-2 codec.
In standards-based IPTV systems, the primary
underlying protocols used for:
Live TV is using IGMP version 2 for connecting to a
multicast stream (TV channel) and for changing from
one multicast stream to another (TV channel change).
VOD is using the Real Time Streaming Protocol
(RTSP).
Currently, the only alternatives to IPTV are
traditional TV distribution technologies such as
terrestrial, satellite and cable. However, cable can
be upgraded to two-way capability and can thus also
carry IPTV.
NPVR (network-based Personal Video Recorder)
Network Personal Video Recording is a consumer
service where real-time broadcast television is
captured in the network on a server allowing the end
user to access the recorded programs on the schedule
of their choice, rather than being tied to the
broadcast schedule. The NPVR system provides
time-shifted viewing of broadcast programs, allowing
subscribers to record and watch programs at their
convenience, without the requirement of a truly
personal PVR device. It could be compared as a "PVR
that is built into the network" -- however that
would be slightly misleading unless the word
"Personal" is, of course, changed to "Public" for
this context.
Subscribers can choose from the programmes available
in the network-based library, when they want,
without needing yet another device or remote
control. However, many people would still prefer to
have their own PVR device, as it would allow them to
choose exactly what they want to record. This
bypasses the strict copyright and licensing
regulations, as well as other limitations, that
often prevent the network itself from providing "on
demand" access to certain programmes (see Heroes,
below).
In the UK, Virgin Media (the current near-monopoly
cable TV brand which also provides telephone,
Internet and cellular services) has such an NPVR
service called "Virgin On Demand". It currently
provides access to a limited-but-growing volume of
documentaries, films, drama series and music videos
"on cue"; however it is important to take into
account the technological limitations which can
result in noticeable delays during playback, and in
response to the "pause", "rewind" and "fast forward"
features that it shares in common with VCRs and DVD
Players. There is a smaller library of selected
programmes that is available to all customers of the
cable TV service for no additional fee, but it is
more limited in variety and is intended as a "Catch
Up" archive consisting only of programmes that aired
within the last seven days.
Advantages
The IP-based platform offers significant advantages,
including the ability to integrate television with
other IP-based services like high speed Internet
access and VoIP.
A switched IP network also allows for the delivery
of significantly more content and functionality. In
a typical TV or satellite network, using broadcast
video technology, all the content constantly flows
downstream to each customer, and the customer
switches the content at the set-top box. The
customer can select from as many choices as the
telecomms, cable or satellite company can stuff into
the “pipe” flowing into the home. A switched IP
network works differently. Content remains in the
network, and only the content the customer selects
is sent into the customer’s home. That frees up
bandwidth, and the customer’s choice is less
restricted by the size of the “pipe” into the home.
This also implies that the customer's privacy could
be compromised to a greater extent than is possible
with traditional TV or satellite networks. It may
also provide a means to hack into, or at least
disrupt (see Denial of Service) the private network.
Interactivity
An IP-based platform also allows significant
opportunities to make the TV viewing experience more
interactive and personalized. The supplier may, for
example, include an interactive program guide that
allows viewers to search for content by title or
actor’s name, or a picture-in-picture functionality
that allows them to “channel surf” without leaving
the program they’re watching. Viewers may be able to
look up a player’s stats while watching a sports
game, or control the camera angle. They also may be
able to access photos or music from their PC on
their television, use a wireless phone to schedule a
recording of their favorite show, or even adjust
parental controls so their child can watch a
documentary for a school report, while they’re away
from home.
Note that this is all possible, to some degree, with
existing digital terrestrial, satellite and cable
networks in tandem with modern set top boxes.
VoD
VoD stands for Video on Demand. VoD permits a
customer to browse an online programme or film
catalogue, to watch trailers and to then select a
selected recording for playback. The playout of the
selected movie starts nearly instantaneously on the
customer's TV or PC.
Technically, when the customer selects the movie, a
point-to-point unicast connection is set up between
the customer's decoder (SetTopBox or PC) and the
delivering streaming server. The signalling for the
trick play functionality (pause, slow-motion,
wind/rewind etc.) is assured by RTSP (Real Time
Streaming Protocol).
The most common codecs used for VoD are MPEG-2,
MPEG-4 and VC-1.
In an attempt to avoid content piracy, the VoD
content is usually encrypted. Whilst encryption of
satellite and cable TV broadcasts is an old
practice, with IPTV technology it can effectively be
thought of as a form of Digital Rights Management. A
film that is chosen, for example, may be playable
for 24 hours following payment, after which time it
becomes unavailable.
Triple Play
Traditionally, TV has come down one wire cable TV or
a terrestrial antenna, the telephone has used
another (the Plain Old Telephone Service - POTS),
and the Internet has been available on either. Both
cable operators and telco operators are starting to
offer all three on one wire, which is more cost
effective. Triple play is an expression used by
service operators describing a bundle of telephony,
data and video via a single connection. Triple play
also refers to the combination of three services
(typically Video, Voice and Internet) bundled
together to entice customers to purchase all three
products at a reduced rate. A quadruple play bundle
usually includes a wireless component. Triple Play
has nothing to do with IPTV in its pure meaning but
deserves mention as a potential video element.
IPTV based Converged Services
Another advantage of an IP-based network is the
opportunity for integration and convergence.
Converged services implies interaction of existing
services in a seamless manner to create new value
added services. One good example is On-Screen Caller
ID, getting Caller ID on your TV and the ability to
handle it (send it to voice mail, etc). IP-based
services will help to enable efforts to provide
consumers anytime-anywhere access to content over
their televisions, PCs and cell phones, and to
integrate services and content to tie them together.
Within businesses and institutions, IPTV eliminates
the need to run a parallel infrastructure to deliver
live and stored video services.
Limitations
Because IPTV requires real-time data transmission
and uses the Internet Protocol, it is sensitive to
packet loss and delays if the IPTV connection is not
fast enough or picture break-up or loss if the
streamed data is unreliable. This latter problem has
proved particularly troublesome when attempting to
stream IPTV across wireless links. Improvements in
wireless technology are now starting to provide
equipment to solve the problem.
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