en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/545566 Comments by shooterstar http://www.medianama.com/2009/05/223-is-iptv-just-a-limited-form-of-the-internet/#IDComment21824220 3) IPTV is certainly NOT promising to bring internet to the TV for the internet savvy and addicted population. It certainly does promise to bring the utility applications of the internet (be it ticket booking, information dissemination or transactional) to the population which is "not so net savvy" and "internet illiterate" at the touch of the remotes. The challenge lies in bringing these applications in a user-friendly manner to the IPTV platform - which is only a matter of time. 4) The broadband ( with or without internet access) numbers in India are growing at an enormous rate - projections from the govt and pvt. operators are 20 Million by 2010 and 40 million by 2012. These numbers are official figures - even if we achieve 50% of it, the numbers are too lucrative. 5) Getting content from the internet (expensive bandwidth) vs. getting it from a hosted server within the operator's network certainly reduces the price burden from the customers. The customers do NOT pay anything for the bandwidth consumed by the IPTV's TV, VOD, TSTV etc. services because they are NOT coming over the expensive internet bandwidth. Tue, 19 May 2009 16:22:20 +0000 http://www.medianama.com/2009/05/223-is-iptv-just-a-limited-form-of-the-internet/#IDComment21824220 http://www.medianama.com/2009/05/223-is-iptv-just-a-limited-form-of-the-internet/#IDComment21824205 1) That appears to be true as of today's operator, their status with the "interactive" services BUT it is a very narrow view of the technology and its capabilities. 2) While it is only fair to make a direct comparison of IPTV with DTH or digital cable, there are service differentiators which would prove the superiority of IPTV services over the other modes of TV delivery. Tue, 19 May 2009 16:22:07 +0000 http://www.medianama.com/2009/05/223-is-iptv-just-a-limited-form-of-the-internet/#IDComment21824205