Future of Internet Television

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Research question

  • 1. How will TV sets looks like in the near future (size)
  • 2. What will be the impact on home TV
  • 3. Will there still be TV sets in 10 years
  • 4. Will people prefer watching movies on pc or “traditional” TV [2]
  • 5. Triple play of voice, data, and video [2]
  • 6. Browsing on TV
  • 7. Technical difficulties, bandwidth
  • 8. access to multicast groups [1]
  • 9. unnecessary service
  • 10. choose own program
  • 11. save program for later
  • 12. if 10 and 11, how will we deal with advertisement
  • 13. interactive voice control radio and television stations [3]
  • 14. TV as a new generation pc
  • 15. The trend is that internet TV service that empowers video producers and programmers to build broadband businesses while giving viewers more choices and control over their use of video and television. But which is the bottle neck of current internet television technology?
  • 16. Access the Internet, communicate, watch TV/Video, conduct banking transactions, operate security cameras at home etc… What is the major driver? Technology or demand for convenience? [4]
  • 17. What will be the role of the TV channels (will they pay network owners scuh as KPN etc to be broadcasted or will KPN pay them or will customers pay both the network owners and the channels) [4]?
  • 18. What will be the role of the device/service provider (For example: Apple - iTune Music Store, Tivo - Video On Demand Service, Google - Google Video, or other niche S/W providers) ?
  • 19. What are Creative Common, DRM and How do they work with IPTV?
  • 20. How will the bandwidth infrastructure change the rule of the IPTV game?
  • 21. What's the critical success factor of the internet TV?

References


test it too:)

What is web2.0? [1]
When is it launched? What is the current situation of Internet TV? What's the technology challenge? What is the Internet TV platform?[2] What is the software now? [3] How many people are using Internet TV? How many channels are there?[4] What is the current concern about licence? May develop new kind of licence? Who is earning money through Internet TV? What are their business model?

[1] English version:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1

   Chinese version:http://www.enet.com.cn/article/2005/1122/A20051122474593.shtml

[2] http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2005/10/brightcoves_pla.html [3] http://www.getdemocracy.com/ [4] http://fireant.tv/directory