Buzzword Alert: TV over IP"> Buzzword Alert: TV over IP

Voice over IP is Sooooo last spring. The newest IP craze is TV over IP or TVIP and it allows people with broadband connections to choose their own TV shows on demand and download them to their PCs.

According to Reuters, “TV over phone lines, also known as TV over Internet protocol (TVIP), is already taking root in Europe, with offerings from France Telecom , Italy’s FastWeb, Britain’s HomeChoice and others. There are many more on the way, with Britain’s top fixed-line phone company BT Group in talks with content companies as it prepares to launch its own service. In Washington, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said on Sept. 15 that almost every major U.S. phone company he has talked with is working to develop TVIP offering. Consultancy Multimedia Research Group estimates there will be 15.6 million TVIP viewers by 2007, up from a few hundred thousand today.”