iControl IPTV recently roped in Mona Singh as the new face for its product. Mona can be seen sharing her amazing experience of iControl IPTV, on your TV channels.

We are proud to have the charismatic Mona as part of our family. Mona singh started with Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi & since then she is at the top. Mona has a Midas touch, wherever she goes success comes. She was last seen in movie 3 Idiots - The blockbuster. And now keeping her punjabi kuddi tadka, she is Chilling out & watching TV on her iControl IPTV.

And since the IPL cricket season is ON, we wish to provide the right TV - iControl IPTV to enjoy the IPL fullest. iControl IPTV; a TV with amazing features like Chill & Cool. Cool letting you rewind the Live TV, that too up to last 7days. Not only this you can pause & fast forward (the rewind clip) the Live TV. And Chill providing you the facility to watch missed program at your desired time by keeping record of up to last 7 days programs.

To enjoy IPL with full control on TV just grab iControl & SMS < CHIL > To 54545

A term the whole India will be hearing a lot from now is IPTV (Internet Protocol Television). As the name sounds, its a television content delivered through internet connection. The concept of IPTV is coming since a long time, but in 2010, India too will have same experience that most foreign countries have.

With IPTV you are no more constrained by the TV. You get hundreds of channels, video on demand, time-shift, triple play and all this controllable with your Remote Control. Not only this you can communicate using IPTV as it provided the messaging feature just like SMS in your mobile phones. IPTV basically receives and display encoded video stream through Internet lines laid down for broadband purposes, thereby offering a new concept of affordable televiewing. These internet line are connected to your TV through a set-top box. This makes IPTV, a technology more advanced and better than DTH technology. With DTH customer has to install a Dish antenna and still face problems of distorted videos due to bad weather. Whereas for IPTV only and most important is broadband connection, no antenna is needed in order to get signals.
 

IPTV is a TV just like restaurants, you sit and order and get what you want.

We have noticed that people still are not aware about what exactly IPTV is? Moreover they confuse IPTV technology with the Internet TV. Being first and oldest provider of IPTV in India we feel the responsibility of educating people about IPTV. So we have written a blog to educate people about the technicalities of IPTV.

IPTV is basically the system which is used to deliver digital quality service to the registered subscribers in a closed network. The delivery of digital Television here is made possible using Internet Protocol (IP) over broadband. This service can be provided along with services like Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Access, In case all these services are provided to the subscribers it is known as Triple Play service.

Let us understand the architecture of IPTV with the help of the above figure. This figure can be divided into four components corresponding to the four steps involved in the transmission of video signals from broadcasters end to the homes in IPTV scenario.

1. Dish which is installed at the IPTV service provider's headend, receives the video content from the broadcasters and other sources like ZEE, STAR, SONY etc. Known as Content Sources.

   
    

2. Video Encoders, Video-on-Demand server, Billing system which can be known as IPTV Network Operation Centre (NOC) when taken together as a component.

The content sources receives the content in different formats video encoders present in NOC encodes it into IP streams. The main source of Interactivity, video-on-demand server is there in NOC centre, the encoded IP Streams and VOD content is then sent to the customer premise using distribution network.

3. The third component; Distribution Network consist of MPLS core, T1 T2 layers, DSLAM network. These components together help in the timely distribution of IPTV streams to the customer end.

   
    

4. ADSL Modem, Set Top Box and TV are present in the Customer premises. Modem receives the IPTV streams from distribution network sends it to Set Top Box and this Set Top Box again decodes the data according to the TV requirement. This way you watch your TV through IPTV technique.