mtnl iptv on windows media center

[gregory house]

The STB and card will be required even in the case of IPTV coz, if you don't have it and send unencrypted content through a particular phone line, I can split the line or even route the data stream to my pc and broadcast multiple channels simultaneously all over the place. They do not want that to happen now, do they?

 

[gregory house]

Appeals Court: Hacking your DirecTV not the same as commercial piracy

 

[santosh.s]

:rofl:If hacking for free viewing is merely "signal" piracy, not "commercial" piracy, then reconfiguring it to view your paid subscription on PC in addition to STB shouldn't fall under any category of piracy at all.... it should become consumer's right!!

 

[mitesh vardhan]

Technologically yes,IPTV can run on PC without set top box, you only need to have the decryption system in your system, this is the concept of i2tv.mitesh

 

[santosh.s]

Actually my guess was right, IOL's IPTV uses unencrypted signals, at least for live-TV. I could discover required IP addresses and port numbers corresponding to all available channels without much trouble, and figured out how to watch them on any PC/laptop connected to the broadband connection (Type of connection does not matter, so the best part is that it includes WiFi too!). But the irony is that I am still waiting for my line's noise issue to be resolved, and worse- I am not even sure whether they will really be able to fix that at all:wall:VoD must be using higher levels of authentication and/or encryption. Haven't tried to dig deeper into that, but with the kind of content available as of now it is not worth the time anyway!

 

[gregory house]

Very interesting indeed. Even if regular pay channels are available in unencrypted form, that should be sufficient. You can then watch multiple channels simultaneously and in multiple locations as long as there is enough bandwidth available. Have you tried that?

 

[santosh.s]

No, I don't think we can watch multiple channels simultaneously.It uses IGMP protocol to join a multicast stream, but when we request a new channel, their server seems to automatically stop the previous stream to your connection. So, my guess is that it may not be possible even with high bandwidth.

 

[gregory house]

That is the problem with online services. Usage can be tightly controlled. Unwinding the encryption/ decryption component of a DTH system will not face similar problems. But that is a completely different problem.

 

[mitesh vardhan]

okienow a advisewhich technology is better iptv or dth and two imp reasons for this too

 

[SVK]

IPTV - It uses internet protocol (not PC) for transmission of TV. Whenever the registered STB is connected to IPTV server, its certificates are first checked while bootup, then after verfication only STB boots & get ready for viewing. The certificates are stored on a special chip on STB board. So it is that chip which virtually communicates with IPTV server, so I think we cannot watch IPTV service provided by MTNL or anyone else on PC. Don't relate watching live online TV channels from some sites to IPTV IPTV or DTH?IPTV is point-to-point service and here the channels are transferred via broadband line which may get loaded if demand suddenly increase causing lose to quality of transmissionDTH is direct from satellite and independent on number of viewers, also can be received throughout country with good Audio/Video quality.So I prefer DTH over IPTV