IPTV, Television for a new style of digital life

Abstract

At its 70 years of life internationally (1936, BBC) and half century in Spain (28 October 1956, TVE) and Portugal (3 de Mars de 1957, RTP), traditional TV transforms its maturity stage into a new product stage with the use of Internet and digital convergence. Internet TV represents today the 4th TV transmission system, after broadcast TV, cable TV and satellite TV. The special characteristics of digital TV will open the door for new means and models of communication. In this sense, the EU law has reviewed and approved a Television without Frontiers Directive (2007) stressing the importance of convergence in a new defi nition of TV without limits.