TV guide for the lost viewers – Republic

HbbTV, smart TV, IPTV, 4K … Today favorite program or series can be viewed using different technologies. We explain how to do it.

anywhere unless viewers do not yearn for the days in which there was only one TV – Terrestrial, and took away it is through the roof antenna. Today ways to watch your favorite programs are so many that it is easy to get lost in the new services. Deciphers what it means – often host on our pages – complex terms.

from the antenna to the internet

From the roof antenna can still be – is spread from terrestrial transmitters – TV watching , and it’s free, except that it is no longer broadcast analog, but digital. This effect run in recent years of digital multiplexes, which today enable you to watch not a few, but more than 20 stations.

In addition to this we have fit through the satellite transponder satellite platforms. In Poland they are Cyfrowy Polsat, nc + TV offer is also Orange. For their reception needs a satellite dish.

Their competitors are cable operators (such as UPC Poland, Vectra, INEA, Multimedia) suitable cable to the so-called. hybrid fiber optic links (called HFC, hybrid fiber coax from). Telecom operators send us to the homes of packages of TV channels also the links ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line, using copper telephone cables).

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television since) it is possible to receive broadband via a network based on IP – this service are offered by Netia, Multimedia, Orange.

TV signal can be received more frequently in the form of streaming over the Internet, or directly from the internet, where broadcasters offer channels on their platforms like video Ipla and TVN Player. This platform also offers movies, series and TV programs on demand, if you work on the internet (you can buy access to them without any client platform or cable TV) is called. OTT services (from the English over-the-top). In Poland include Kinoplex.gazeta.pl, Cineman.pl or Iplex.pl. International player of this type is Netflix.

hybrid TV and 4K

The Internet has revolutionized the industry, because it has enabled broadcasters to create a whole range of services to support traditional broadcast television. And so TVP, Eska TV, Polo TV and Focus TV (and in the second half of the year also suitable in the context of digital terrestrial TV Freeze) in addition to traditional TV channels are offered also called. Hybrid TV (in short: HbbTV).

This TV is redirected via the Internet additional complementary content is what you see on the screen, which can be viewed as the TV, starting with the pilot distinctive red dot. TVP within its HbbTV service gives even have separate virtual channels existing in hybrid TV.

To receive a hybrid television you have to have a TV or set-top box with internet access, that is – another term – the so-called. connected TV or Smart TV. They also allow watching video from websites through special applications.

They are no longer niche products. According to GfK data from 2010 to the end of 2013 were sold in Poland, 2.6 million smart TV.

There is also growing sales of another blockbuster this year: 4K television or Ultra HD. The difference between them in the simplification comes down to the fact that the “true” 4K is the image produced at a resolution of 4096 x 2160 pixels, and the Ultra HD – at a resolution of 3840 x 2160, because it is an image created in a standard format for HD video which is originally the format 16:9.

In the “real” 4K is suitable so the image wider than the Ultra HD. They use the example of cinema.

TVs sold in the market are usually adapted to transmit ultra-HD resolution.

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