 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | reply to Codacious
Re: Clarification on what Gartner calls IPTV Okay, I didn't read that before.
Not Internet Protocol networks are part of the Internet. Further, not all IPTV-enabled STBs are strictly doing IPTV (some -- perhaps most still -- do both IP digital and analog).
Since the Standard STB receives its info from a "managed broadband network" and not the internet, why does it not qualify as IPTV ? It probably would, based on Gartner's definition. That's a goofy definition, since it rules out content delivered over the Internet.
It doesn't sound right to me, but I've no experience with IPTV and had always assumed it was digital video thru internet connected to a STB ? Many (perhaps most) have digital and analog channels. I think that Comcast finally went all-digital on the STB only in the past 1-2 years (in my area, at least, since I was getting RF ghosting as recently as 2 years ago).
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
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