Internet TV uses streaming media to broadcast digital television content on the Internet. “Digital streaming have enabled real-time Internet transmission of video signals� (Boading, 2000) together with the increase in high-bandwidth Internet connectivity and the decrease in connection cost. The major advantage for Internet television is its far more expansive reach than the regular television, which is in most cases restricted to a geographical area. Internet television has also the capability to offer potentially infinitive channels to the viewer.
There are several forms of Internet television. Some traditional networks offer additional footage to a television program on the Internet TV, premium movies on video on demand basis and innovative programs with interactive and multimedia component. There is also channels that only exists on Internet television that offers specialised programs with a narrow scale of viewers (Noran, 2003). However, it is not cheap to produce the content it self due to its interactive aspects. Some networks also broadcast the same material on Internet TV as they do on traditional TV by charging a subscription fee by the viewer. It is also common that the commercial networks have a library of movie clips the viewers can access on demand.
Simen Sjoelli 17:34, 27 Oct 2004 (EST)
