Consumers want clear picture on IPTV

A number of consumers in the U.S. and Europe are leery about IPTV service from telephone service providers because of the potential for poor picture quality, according to separate studies in the two geographic areas released Monday. The studies were conducted by InsightExpress on behalf of SupportSoft. In the U.S. survey, more than one-third of respondents were worried about the quality of pictures delivered by phone companies compared with cable or satellite providers.

IPTV, or Internet Protocol television, is technology that delivers TV programs over the Internet. Telephone companies are working to add TV services to their voice and data offerings to open up new markets and fend off advances by cable and satellite companies that provide similar packages.

[Thomas, David]

Down with IPTv

Think about it. More crap that no one wants to see being
pumped onto a medium it was not designed for and taking
precious bandwitdth from legitamite uses.

What in the hell is the excuse for it in the first place? If I want a
how-to video, an on-line MOV/WMV/MPG library is more
appropriate and any Tom, Dick, Harry, Jane, Ahmed, Cornelius,
Daniel, LaQuisha (you get my point) in the world can provide
with some conglomerate/corporate interference.

[jawaidbazyar]

Video On Demand

It's about being able to watch any program ever made, instantly, whenever you want to watch it.

It's about breaking the cable monopolies.

It's about only paying for what you want, instead of paying to have 300 channels of crap you don't want broadcast to you.

And that's just for starters.

[Thomas, David]

Down with IPTv (with OUT conglomerate ...

So easy to have typo-s

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Think about it. More crap that no one wants to see being
pumped onto a medium it was not designed for, and taking
precious bandwitdth from legitamite uses.

What in the hell is the excuse for it in the first place? If I want a
how-to video, an on-line MOV/WMV/MPG library is more
appropriate, and any Tom, Dick, Harry, Jane, Ahmed, Cornelius,
Daniel, LaQuisha (you get my point) in the world can provide
without some conglomerate/corporate interference or oversight.

[kcblack]

I want my IPTV my way, not the cable co's or MS's

I consider myself sort of a regular guy who wants the freedom to chose media (for lack of a better term) "My Way".

Right now I get my television via DirecTV. For the most part it give me what I want. Actually, it gives me more than I want, but less that what I want. I have to bow to the will of the FCC and the advertisers to get even some of what I want. I used to be able to get non-local affilates on my directtv but even that has been curtailed by Uncle Dave.

I'm a child of the DVR generation. First it was the VCR, then MS Ultimate TV, now directivo.

I sorta get what I want, but not completely.

I rarely "watch" tv anymore live. I record it on my Tivo and then watch it at my leisure. The nice thing on directv is dual tuners but I still end up with two or more boxes just to record the shows I want to see.

Lets talk my viewing habits. Some shows I'll watch every week. Some shows I record the whole season and then watch them when the seasons over in one sitting.

I also watch shows that aren't available here. Dr Who is a good example. It would probably get to where I can see the show in america sometime in 2008 if ever. I watched them within an hour after they play on the BBS in England.

I dl them via bittorrent, burn the data onto a CD and watch them via my $40 Norcent DVD player that plays DIVX natively.

What do I really want? Its all about content.

What I'd really like is to get rid of Directv, cable, and off the air altogether.

My dream system is an IPTV box that can use as much disk space as I can buy on my home network, that scans the internet for content via keywords and my likes (what I watch, what I don't watch) and presents them to me in a format something like tivo does now.

I want a very fast (fiber optic?) pipe to my place that I can use however I want to download and store content that I might want to watch, that will download things for me and ask me if this is something I like.

If the content costs something, then I should see that, but again, it shouldn't cost alot cause millions (or even billions in a world market) of people are probably watching world wide. Its sorta like how I think we should pay for songs. I like an artists song, I buy it. I don't pay $15 for a cd of songs that I don't like to get one song, so that an artist can get 15 cents from a money hungry record/media company. I'd rather pay the 15 cents directly to the artist/creator. Same thing for my media/tv buys. I pay $100+ to Directv every month and probably use 1/100 of the programming they have. So why should I pay them 100 times what I use?

I want it "my way". I want it over fast pipes. I don't want to wait years for it to make it across the pond, or on DVD's that I have to buy for different regions and buy special players just so I can watch it. I don't want to have to pirate it, not because I can't pay for it, but because I can't get it because its not available because of my location at any price.

Kevin