High‐End IPTV

This chapter presents the standards and deployment aspects of high‐end Internet Protocol television (IPTV). It describes the IPTV standard of the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) association. Standards of the DVB are used in nearly all countries of the world apart from the United States and a few others. A number of bodies also work on IPTV standards such as European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN), Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standard (ATIS), HbbTV, and Object Mobile Alliance (OMA). The ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) has publicized a whole set of IPTV standards numbered from ATIS‐0800002 to ATIS‐0800039. HbbTV combines additional input sources in the user interface. The chapter also discusses the integration of IPTV with IMS, WebRTC, and home networking. There are also other ideas such as the integration of social media with the media presence information.