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IPTV allows consumers to customize their TV viewing experience and interact with video content in ways that they’ve never been able to before. Not only does this mean that customers can watch what they want when they want, but it also means they have the ability to access and interact with more and different kinds of content than ever before. Instead of surfing through hundreds of channels that they rarely watch, they can select and stream only the video content that they want, precisely when they want it—whether it’s on a TV channel’s current programming schedule or not. They have access to content from the past, present, and in even the future as they’re inventing their TV viewing experience as they experience it.
What’s more, with our built-in web browser the technology allows viewers to be more interactive with their content. Remember the days when families used to gather in the living room to look at vacation pictures or those from other events? Well now they can do it in a whole new way. They can upload pictures from their computer’s hard drive or from incoming e-mails and transmit them to televisions in other rooms to those of family members in other states, or even other countries. Another example is the ability to pull up the recipe of a dish while you’re watching it being prepared on your favorite Food Network show. The possibilities are almost as limitless as the human imagination.
vPortal IPTV™ puts you in the driver’s seat, giving you the power to choose what you want to watch when you want to watch it, not just from today’s list of currently broadcasted programming, but also from the vast expanse of video content from the past as well. This plethora of content includes previously broadcasted video programming as well as many independent video projects on all kinds of subject matter. It is digitized and uploaded to IPTV video databases and can be downloaded from sites all over the world. The majority of the programming is broadcast over the net in H.264 and Windows® Media9 formats.
Maybe you want to re-live that gut-wrenching moment from the end of the 2004 Superbowl—the score is tied at the end and the Patriots kick that last-minute field goal to take home the title. Or maybe you want to search for programming on the conspiracy behind President Lincoln’s assassination or relive your favorite “Seinfeld” or “CSI” show. You might really be into multi tasking and want to watch it all—no problem you can watch and record what you want when you want. Other general applications include interactive TV, video-on-demand, and specialized ethnic programming. The point is, vPortal IPTV™ gives you a totally interactive TV experience, one that you choose—on your own terms, not on the networks’.
