AirTV IPTV Blogger

With the cost of cable and satellite TV rising all the time, many people are cutting the cord and getting their entertainment from a variety of traditional and non-traditional methods.  But as with anything, you have to take the total cost of ownership into account.  You also need to place a value and associated price on the convenience of a single source versus piecing your video entertainment together.  This article attempts to help determine if dropping cable makes sense. Cable, as referred to in this article includes all the major players, including the satellite companies. Subscribers often argue over which of those is best, or in many cases, worst, but one thing they all agree on, it costs too much.  The solution for many people, especially millennials, is getting video from a variety of particular sources and attempting to only pay for what they need and use. One method that is arguably cheaper is the modern version of traditional broadcast telev...

W hy should someone you've never met decide what you can watch on   TV  and when you can watch it?  True, there's always a choice of channels, but the selection is still quite limited and unless you record programs in advance, you can only watch them when they're broadcast.  Wouldn't it be better if watching TV were more like browsing the  Web , so you could pick the program you wanted to watch whenever and wherever you felt like watching it?  That's one of the promises of  IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) , which uses Internet technology to deliver TV programs "on demand." How does it work?  What benefits will it bring us? What challenges will the broadcasters and telephone companies face delivering these new services? Let's take a closer look! What is IPTV? From a TV watcher's point of view, IPTV is very simple: instead of receiving TV programs as broadcast signals that enter your home from a rooftop  antenna ,  s...