The talk is all about the internet television. You might have heard about free Tv on PC, Online TV, live Internet TV, watch TV on computer, satellite TV computer, satellite TV for PC, which are considered to be the new sensations.

So how does the Internet TV actually work? The underlying technologies are Bit torrent,Dirac,HTTP,Null soft streaming Video ,RSS,RSS enclosure, RSTP,SMIL, Theora, WTVML.

There is a marked difference between an internet TV’s working and an IPTV. IPTV depends on the service providers who are responsible for bringing internet to home at the last stage. An IPTV is carefully designed to give better protection, performance and effective use of bandwidth for high quality videos. So, premium video content providers prefer IPTV over internet TV.

Internet TV on the other hand uses the already existing system that contributes to its popularity. It uses this “Multicasting Protocol”. This means the program is telecasted and any user can just sign in to the live stream and can watch it free of cost, if they have the correct media player.

Most of the internet TV websites have a built in media player, which makes the user’s job easy. Here the service providers cannot control the final delivery. Transport streams contain one or more services per stream. This means though the internet TV users have access to millions of TV channels the quality and the assurance that they can watch the channel to which they have logged on , reduces. IPTV users on the other hand enjoy a high quality video, but have limited access.

Of the number of methods, broad catching and streaming media are widely used. Broad catching describes a method for subscribing to an ongoing series of media files from a website. The combination of RSS and Bit torrent technologies makes the computer to work like a digital video recorder.

Streaming media, as the name suggests, refers to the continuous stream of video information that reaches the user while being delivered by the sender.

More technologies keep evolving making internet TV the media of the future.