IPTV levels the video broadcasting playing field

TORONTO - Using IP as a delivery mechanism, average consumers who have caught the video content creation bug are now in a position to become IPTV broadcasters, according to industry experts who spoke at this week's Canadian Digital Broadcasting Summit 2007 held in Toronto. There are two flavours of IPTV today, explains Alan Sawyer, media strategist and consultant for Toronto-based Two Solitudes Consulting. “There’s the IPTV stuff going over a dedicated network by a telco or a cable company, and then there’s the stuff on the wide open Internet which is also using IP to deliver TV content,” he said....