That You Need to Know about IPTV

Understand what the IPTV List (lista IPTV) is and how it works, through it you can watch different channels, series and movies on your smartphone, pc, notebook, or Smart TV.

The internet really surprises us every day and has changed the way we shop, talk and why don't we watch it? We are no longer restricted to watching our favorite shows or listening to our favorite songs on traditional channels like television and radio. 

Because of the Internet, we can now broadcast our favorite TV shows, watch our favorite movies or listen to our favorite songs on demand.

With amazing growth in recent years, IPTV technology has become a real viral among Brazilians.

IPTV is growing rapidly, with new providers and services emerging alongside traditional TV providers with more IPTV offerings.

But what is IPTV? What does IPTV mean? How it works? And how can you use it to improve your TV viewing experience?

What is IPTV?

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The “IP” on IPTV is the same as your IP address or VoIP (voice over IP).

 This means that television programming is being communicated using the Internet protocol. That's right, forget the acronyms (VHF, UHF) once.

To understand what this means, you need to know a little about how a cable or satellite TV works:

• Broadcasters send signals and viewers receive them - you can only watch what is being broadcast. Unless you have some type of recording device, you cannot dictate what is happening or when. Just tune in when you can and see what's available.

How does IPTV work?

With IPTV technology instead of transmitting content via pulses of light over fiber optic cables or radio waves from a satellite, IPTV sends programs and movies through its standard Internet connection via one or more IPTV lists , to watch the programming transmitted by the IPTV list you just need to have a software or application where you will connect to your favorite IPTV list and that's it.

Instead of broadcasting a series of programs on a specific schedule, most IPTV lists use video on demand (VOD) or time-shifted media - we'll discuss that and a third format in a moment.

There is some complicated network architecture behind it all, making it work, including a lot of transcoding from traditional signals to IP-compatible signals. But the important thing is that you don't have to watch what is being broadcast. You can tell your provider what you want to watch, and they will send it to you immediately.

If you've used a streaming service like Netflix or Hulu, you'll understand the concept behind IPTV, it's the same idea, but with TV instead of movies or syndicated programs.

IPTV is usually delivered and distributed by an IPTV service, which offers three service classifications, namely:

• Live Television - Allows you to watch live television broadcasts with minimal latency, with or without interactivity, and without being exactly like traditional TV broadcasts. This uses the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 2.
• Time-shifted Media - Also known as digital video recordings, allows you to enjoy television broadcasting over a period of time using digital recordings of television programs without DVR devices. This allows you to watch and re-watch replays of your favorite shows or live events from an interactive menu.
• Video-On-Demand - You can choose videos from your favorite shows in a catalog and watch them as many times as you want. This feature makes use of unicast transmission with Real-Time Streaming Protocol.

In a basic explanation, on traditional TV, programs are broadcast by being transformed into radio waves and re-transmitted over the air to an antenna on the roof of your home. The antenna converts the waves back into electrical signals and your TV decodes them to produce its sound and image (satellite TV works the same way, except that the signal bounces into space and comes back, while cable TV sends the signal directly to your home without radio waves). 

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