Delivering Video and Advanced Services through IP Set-Top Boxes

An industry summary by Royal Philips Electronics This paper describes the evolution of Video-over-IP and related services, as part of a ‘multi-play’ service package offer.

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The effect on and uptake by telcos, other service operators and broadcasters are examined in relation to the availability and significance of increasing bandwidth. Enabling compression and decoding (codec) technologies and standards are described, with their present and future developments. As are Quality of Service (QoS), system architecture and content protection methods.