Is there any difference in quality when viewing IPTV compared with traditional TV distribution technologies?
Yes. The streaming video channels of IPTV are digital which means they do not suffer the deterioration caused in traditional analogue distribution systems producing a noticeably better quality picture. The TV Gateway IPTV product we supply streams the TV signals received from Freeview or satellite without change which means the quality is exactly the same as transmitted. The MPEG2 encoders which take analogue inputs can be set to stream at a high rate for highest quality or a low rate for minimum bandwidth.
