Is IPTV Service Cheaper Than Other TVs

"The Living Room Tournament" becomes more intense, Broadcast cable TV, Internet companies' Internet TV boxes, operators' IPTV service boxes, these three aimed at the home of the TV business launched a battle. As the saying goes, amateurs see the fun, insiders see the door, so we aimed at the operators of the IPTV panel to do a series of content.

The Three giants in the TV industry

At the beginning of the story, let us introduce the entry of the players: now in the TV business, the dominant position of a radio and television company has been challenged again and again, but after all, it is backed by the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television, holding the policy key. The operators are also state-owned enterprises. After the bottleneck of broadband business development, it is a good way to rely on broadband resources to enter the battlefield of the TV business to digest the pressure of development. 

The network TV box that Internet company rolls out also accords with the temperament of Internet company really: win by surprise, fast accurate malicious, one knife goes straight to the heart.

IPTV stands for Interactive Internet Television. It is a technology that combines the broadband network, Internet, multimedia, communications, and other technologies together, to provide a variety of interactive services to home users, including digital television.

To put it bluntly, it is similar to the Internet TV box, they both use the broadband network to achieve live video and on-demand. But many people do not know exactly what the difference between the two is, let's first talk about this problem.

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Why is watching the live stream with IPTV not too slow?

Although IPTV is also a broadband network, communication operators set up IP private networks on the basis of the broadband public network to carry IP-based digital video content and ensure the smooth viewing of videos. Users can use digital TV services only by installing IP set-top boxes to receive and decode streaming media.

The network TV box is carried by the Internet public network (broadband network), it is difficult to carry out QoS control, easy to get stuck.

To make an analogy again: 

the broadband network is a two-way road, a lot of vehicles, the speed is not the same, if the overtaking and change the lane of the people more, naturally, there will be a traffic jam. But at this time, the operator built a viaduct above the road, especially for IPTV. The speed on the viaduct is the same, which at least ensures that the viaduct will not be blocked by traffic.

Is the cost of IPTV high or low?

For most users, price is a key factor in choosing a product. So we did a sample survey, did some research on the Internet, and then called the operators to confirm.

Nowadays, the IPTV of the operators is mainly provided by China Telecom and China Unicom. In addition to the competition between the two operators, the target competitors of the TV business are also targeting the radio and television. Therefore, in terms of price, IPTV is generally cheaper compared with the radio and television. However, IPTV requires users to buy IPTV TV boxes, and whether there is a subsidy for this part of the cost from the operators varies from place to place.

But compared with the network TV box, it will be divided into the situation, because the network TV box is basically an expenditure, buy a box is good, the rest of the things can be thought of processing (copycat and piracy), so many users chose the network TV box, but the actual situation is really like this?

IPT royalty =IPTV box (purchase fee) + function fee (monthly royalty)

Operator in the main business of sports is broadband, telecom's specialty is fusion (mobile + broadband), as long as pay the phone bill can use broadband, now loading the IPTV business, that it came out a new dish, telecommunications (mobile phone, broadband, and television), a new fusion cost haven't changed much, but the free TV watching, broadband speed. Unicom is also the same way. Those who meet the requirements of mobile phone plans will use it for free, while those who use low-value plans or only use broadband will pay the monthly IPTV fee. But the monthly features are still cheaper than cable TV.

If the user's mobile phone and broadband before is the same operator, that IPTV is no more expensive than the network TV box, out of the problem can always find the business hall to reason. This is the service advantage of IPTV for operators. If there is a problem with the use of the product, you can go to the sales office or complain to the operators. However, if there is a problem with the Internet TV box, you will only give a bad comment to the merchants.

Reviewing the above text, we still have expectations for the operators' IPTV, but we also hope that the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television can introduce more reasonable control measures to make the use of Internet TV boxes more reasonable. We also hope that cable TV can continue to make efforts to provide users with more intelligent home TV businesses with some Internet thinking.