And this depends on which channel. If that will be distributed within the house by wires and around the world by wires, then you can get by with the very minimum of money. For an Internet channel with little or no investment. In this matter, the most difficult thing is what to show on this channel. If there are films, then you need to make contributions to the authors. If you shoot programs, then also in different ways. You can shoot something on a household camera for one person, then it will turn out amateurishly and people are unlikely to want to watch. If on a more professional level, then it is already necessary to hire an operator, presenter, editor, and so on. This is how television works at the regional level. And best of all, as a rule, all-Russian channels work. You also need to take into account that if you broadcast like a regular TV channel on air via radio waves, then you need to register your channel as a media and register a certain frequency for yourself, on which you will be allowed to broadcast. I read somewhere that organizing FM radio broadcasting to one city requires 100 thousand rubles for registration. You will have to pay no less for the TV channel. TV channels usually receive profit for advertising or various SMS services. And in order to start ordering advertising or participate in SMS services, the channel must be good. There is already competition in this sector. Therefore, it is only worth it if there is already groundwork. For example, if you have video materials or you can shoot a good program and do it all the time, then you can organize a small channel on the Internet or get a job on television and shoot there, you can agree if you want. TV channels usually receive profit for advertising or various SMS services. And in order to start ordering advertising or participate in SMS services, the channel must be good. There is already competition in this sector. Therefore, it is only worth it if there is already groundwork. For example, if you have video materials or you can shoot a good program and do it all the time, then you can organize a small channel on the Internet or get a job on television and shoot there, you can agree if you want. TV channels usually receive profit for advertising or various SMS services. And in order to start ordering advertising or participate in SMS services, the channel must be good. There is already competition in this sector. Therefore, it is only worth it if there is already groundwork. For example, if you have video materials or you can shoot a good program and do it all the time, then you can organize a small channel on the Internet or get a job on television and shoot there, you can agree if you want.
I remember that there was a time when educated people in all seriousness discussed whether television would replace the theater and replace books over time. Today these discussions seem a little naive, although it is impossible to say that television plays the same role in people’s lives as it did thirty years ago. It has changed and no longer means as much as it used to. Trust in television as a source of information has been lost.
The goal of most “accessible” television channels is to impose their point of view, to present news events from a certain angle, with the benefit of a particular political force. Television has long lost the respect of the thinking population, which is watching “zombie box” less and less, giving preference to digital TV – thematic television channels broadcast via satellite or cable networks. Alternative TV broadcasts no round-the-clock politics, terrorist attacks, endless cops and brigades, stupid talk shows and soap operas. Instead, the viewer is offered sports programs, educational programs, documentaries about scientific discoveries, stories about life in different parts of the world, and so on. The percentage of “garbage” is very low, and the viewer has the opportunity to choose what he wants to watch.
Unlike the channels of regional and state TV companies, which are included by cable operators in “standard” and “minimal” service packages by default, all interesting things like 24 Techno, Discovery or Nat Geo Wild are hidden from digital TV users at higher rates. If you want to watch something that is not imposed on you, pay.
There is nothing wrong with the fact that such channels are more expensive. Any work must be paid, including the work of the employees of the television channel, who, in theory, should receive deductions. It would seem that everything is simple – buy and enjoy a quality product. But in practice, not everything is as smooth as we would like. We are used to buying software and paying for mobile services. But television is a completely different kind of product. Where is the measure that can be used to assess the consumption of TV programs?
Those who work or study a lot have no time to watch TV. And if such a person buys a month of TV air, in practice he gets to watch TV shows for only a few hours or a couple of days. This is likely to deter many from purchasing additional channels.
In addition, cable operators are used to pushing packets of TV channels. But what is the point of buying a whole package for a person if he watches only two sports channels out of hundreds of offered channels? Logic dictates that you would have to pay less for the ability to view one channel. In general, this is a very controversial point, which will probably somehow be resolved in the future. In the meantime … while you can, without tormenting your conscience, look for alternative ways to watch interesting television. Moreover, such a possibility exists.
At the moment, there are three main ways to watch TV over the Internet: streaming with low bitrate, IPTV and torrent TV.
Low bitrate streaming
Some TV channels can be watched online. As a rule, such an opportunity is provided by TV companies that are present in the above-mentioned “standard” digital TV package. There are many programs that combine dozens of freely broadcast channels behind a common shell (Super Internet TV, Online TV Player and others). Unfortunately, the picture and sound quality with such broadcasting is very mediocre, so streaming cannot be a real alternative to digital television.
IPTV: all channels in digital
Internet service providers and cable TV operators are often the same companies. IPTV technology, depending on the capabilities of the network and the services offered by the service provider, can be implemented using various protocols. For example, RTP, UDP, HTTP, RTSP and other protocols can be used to broadcast video.
IPTV technology allows not only to achieve good image quality, but also to realize a lot of additional conveniences for the viewer. For example, a provider can provide a video on demand service, the ability to receive an information menu with a TV program, a broadcast time shift, and so on. The image quality when using this technology can be very high (depends on the bit rate), high-definition video and multi-channel audio are supported.
How and what to watch IPTV
There are not so many applications for viewing IPTV. Most of them are built on the popular VLC media player engine .
To watch IPTV channels, you will need a playlist with TV channels provided by your provider or (if you will not have any remorse at night) an alternative list of channels from another provider found on the Web.
