IPTV comes to Digicel CES

Creative Media & Events, owners of the Digicel Consumer Electronics Show, have been promising much. The cutting edge of technology is scheduled to come to the Wyndham hotel (formerly Hilton) this Saturday and Sunday at 9 p.m. and one of the areas to be explored is the new direction of television, namely IPTV.

IPTV is multi-channel, Internet protocol television which can facilitate the delivery of multi-definition content.

Instead of a signal being transmitted via satellite, cable or terrestrial routes, the IPTV signal is transmitted via a broadband line.

This helps consumers watch IPTV on a PC, or on other compatible forms of media such as a mobile telephone or a gaming console.

Recent statistics on IPTV from the Multimedia Research Group indicate a strong upward trend for the technology.

In 2008, actual IPTV subscribers ended up about one million over its last forecast in late 2008, or 21.3 million, resulting in projected subscriber growth of 26.9 million in 2009 to over 81 million in 2013. Combined CapEx revenue plus service revenue are also expected to grow from $9.7 billion in 2009 to $25.6 billion in 2013.