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IPTV and Streaming: Distinguishing the Differences

Both streaming and IPTV have been around either as technologies or concepts for more than a decade, yet much of the enthusiasm generated by streaming in the late ’90s seems to have shifted to IPTV over the last couple of years, especially among premium content owners. IPTV and streaming are not two mutually exclusive technologies, and the distinctions between the two become less relevant as bandwidth continues to increase and compression codecs get more efficient. So where are the lines drawn between IPTV and streaming, and where will those lines move in the future?