Holiday Post

Hi

I wish all my readers a great festive season, and hope that your 2008 will be a prosperous and happy year.

My apologies for not uploading a new XMLTV file sooner, like most people I was away for Christmas visiting the in-laws and my wife promised to kill me if I took my Laptop with.

Anyway, I have updated the XMLTV file and updated it to include the new “Holiday Channel”, so enjoy..

Being such a supporter of MultiChoice and their abuse I thought I would share an interesting article that I found written by “Craig Nicholson” on his .NET blog. It is titled “Is MultiChoice afraid of IPTV?” and deals with the future of IPTV in South Africa. For those of you that don’t know what IPTV is, this is the definition given for it on Wikipedia…..

“”IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television service is delivered by using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection. A general definition of IPTV is television content that, instead of being delivered through traditional broadcast and cable formats, is received by the viewer through the technologies used for computer networks.

For residential users, IPTV is often provided in conjunction with Video on Demand and may be bundled with Internet services such as Web access and VoIP. The commercial bundling of IPTV, VoIP and Internet access is referred to as “Triple Play” service (adding mobility is called “Quadruple Play”). IPTV is typically supplied by a service provider using a closed network infrastructure. This closed network approach is in competition with the delivery of TV content over the public Internet, called Internet Television. In businesses, IPTV may be used to deliver television content over corporate LANs.””

Regards

VG

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