The Real Meaning Of IPTV

... In particular, IPTV allows the service provider to deliver only those channels that the consumer wants at any given time -- unlike traditional television broadcasting, where every channel is delivered to every home on the network. For the first time, it will be economical to deliver a college basketball game to everyone who wants to see it, for example, rather than just a particular local community.  ¶  Of course, IPTV offers more benefits than this to the consumer. For one thing, it raises interactive television to a new level. While interactive TV has been around for more than a decade, it has offered little more than a choice of camera angles from which to view an event. IPTV gives the viewer access not just to an event but to the information related to it. You would have the ability to look at stats and live footage of one game, for example, while watching another. ...  Link:  BusinessWeek.