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Explanation of terms and acronyms related to the media and broadcasting world. Updated every week!

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television)

IPTV or Internet Protocol Television is a system of transmitting and broadcasting television series using Internet Protocol Suite unlike traditional deliver through satellite signal and cable television formats. IPTV enables streaming media in smaller batches improving overall user experience. IPTV sends only one content at a time as requested by the viewer and a new stream is transmitted to the viewer when there is a change in the channel. IPTV requires a Set Top Box for seamless programming experience.

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Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is an organized process to copyright protection for digital content such as video, music, eBooks etc. DRM technologies try to put a stop to illegal redistribution of digital content and limit the ways consumers can copy content they have already purchased. Usually, DRM is put into practice by inserting code that puts a stop to copying, limits the number of devices the content can be accessed on or stipulates a time period in which the content…

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MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP)

MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP) is a flexible bitrate streaming technique. MPEG has developed quite a few extensively used multimedia standards, including MPEG-21, MPEG-7, MPEG-4 and MPEG-2. Their newest standard MPEG-DASH, is an effort to resolve the intricacies of media delivery to various devices with an integrated common standard. When media content is delivered from conventional HTTP web servers, MPEG-DASH empowers high quality streaming of these media content over the Internet. Just like Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) solution, MPEG-DASH can truly split a video file…

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Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)

The Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) protocol was originally developed by Macromedia (Now Adobe) for high-performance transmission of audio, video and data over the Internet between Flash based platform technologies, including Flash Player & Adobe AIR and the Server. RTMP is available as an open specification to create products and technology that enable delivery of video, audio, and data in the open AMF, SWF, FLV, and F4V formats compatible with Adobe Flash Player. RTMP is implemented at these three stages: Live video…

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