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Originally Posted by Turkey Machine
AKA TV channels over the internet. Better to elaborate that it uses an internet or network connection (cable or DSL) to get the channels, not like a normal cable box in that sense.
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No, it's really not TV channels over the internet by any stretch of the imagination.
The broadcasts do not touch the internet at all, it's all routed across their internal network only on segregated bandwidth.
Saying it's TV channels over the internet is like saying streaming from one pc on your home network to another pc on your home network is streaming over the internet. In neither case is the internet involved, it's all internal network traffic. That the same connection gives you your internet connection is irrelevant.
A lot of people are under the impression that IPTV will mean you can use any internet connection to get the channels, you can't. You have to be connected directly to the providers network as they are NOT sent over the internet.
Internet TV = TV sent over the internet, IPTV = a walled garden where TV is transmitted across an IP network.