IPTV - Television of the future!

The superiority of viewer interaction and increased service will bring Internet TV (IPTV) boom in the near future. This was confirmed by experts in Vietnam IPTV Forum (IPTV Forum VietNam) 2007 this morning (September 13) in Hanoi.

At the Forum, experts discussed the advantages and outstanding issues when piloting IPTV services in some major provinces and cities since April 2007. These pilot results will be used as a basis to promote the official provision of this service in Vietnam.

Representatives of participating units agreed that the current issue is not to discuss "whether to deploy IPTV" but to consider how to deploy large-scale IPTV around the world. . This is one of the topics that are considered to be the "hottest" in the telecommunications sector, potentially providing many excellent applications, helping to increase revenue for broadband service providers or network operators. fixed, or even for mobile service providers.

Besides, the speakers also participated in discussing issues related to content, advertising on IPTV, security and quality assurance of services on the Internet environment in Vietnam. ZTE (China IPTV solution provider) has prepared rich content to serve IPTV technology demonstration, including basic IPTV services (Live TV, VOD .) and price services. values ​​such as: Purchasing goods via TV, Karaoke, Games, Information magazines, Picture-seeing phones, TV, TV Mail, TV Photo, TV Voting, TV prediction, Instant messaging ( IM), Insert ad .

" Quality is the first key to IPTV development, " said Bui Thien Minh, Deputy General Director of VNPT Group at the forum. " In particular, transmission bandwidth is a big challenge. When there are effective solutions, the deployment will be successful ." Currently, VNPT Group accounts for 47% of market share compared to other Internet service providers (ISPs). This is one of the favorable conditions for VNPT to bring Internet TV to the majority of viewers.

According to analysts of ZTE, now a partner of VNPT in deploying IPTV, this service will become more popular and will change traditional TV viewing habits. IPTV is not only a service, but also an industry that includes a complete value chain, providing great opportunities for Vietnamese telecom operators, for content providers (CP). and service providers (SP).

" Our research shows that Asians prefer computers over TV. They do more with computers like surfing the web, playing online games, listening to music, . This is different from Europeans or North America is lazy on sofas with television sets. Moreover, computer users are very excited and tend to integrate PC and TV together, "said Yu Yi Fang, ZTE's General Manager.

At the end of the forum, Mr. Bui Thien Minh concluded: " The exchange time at this forum may be short, but we have shared important experiences to deploy a new service globally. in Vietnam ".

Hung Hai