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 * Generation Y**(Spencer Setters)

Generation X and members of generations prior are not susceptible to media in the same fashion. While older generations tend to use traditional methods such as newspapers and cable television, Gen-Y does not subscribe to listening to men in grey suits who just so happen to appear on a major news station.

People born after 1980 know how to use computer and the internet, very well in fact. Americans born earlier are, for some reason, afraid of technology. The skillful usage of the internet, texting, IM, social networking and media sites means that young people receive their news horizontally rather than from a ‘top-down’ approach.

Young people want to watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it. Sites like YouTube make it possible. On Demand, Netflix on Xbox 360 and the ability to download video via services like iTunes or even p2p software increase the rate of transfer of information.

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 * Degradation of Cable Television**( Ichhya Malla)

These day people do not see cable TV much. The number of people who use to see cable has decreased in large number. In the past, people use to sit with the family and wait for their favorite program to come. People use to come back from the places they were on time in order to sit in front of the TV and watch the show. But these days we don’t see this. People have shifted their choice to online video. Cable TV is degrading. Gen Y does not have enough time to wait for their favorite shows which come on TV. They prefer to go online and watch the program they wish to watch. They can watch the program online at any time of the day or night. Watching video online is more convenient compared to depending on cable. Due to the increase in the online video, we can see cable diminishing in days ahead.

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 * Future of IPTV**(Danny Gerben)

There is alot of controversy over how IPTV will enter in with cable companies. They are still figuring out short term and long term goals that the cable companies will run in to when they pick up IPTV. They are still facing many challenges that are holding them back with IPTV. Some of those challenges consist of high subscription fees, quality of the service, and poor customer and technical support. But some of the things that people should know is that there will be faster downloads, game platform intergration, social networking connection, and location bases services such as order a pizza or make doctor's appointment.

Although we are under the address of IPv4, experts predict IPv4 will be exhausted as early as 2010. That's why the move is underway to the IPv6 protocol, which provides significantly more address space for devices. The IPv6 protocol will offer services such as 76 channels of standard and high definition TV over the network, over 10,000 video on demand tiles and 13,000 titles in their Karaoke service.

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 * IPTV Businesses: Who will come out on top?**( Su Gyeong Kim)

I think the Comcast’s IPTV strategy is the most upgrading network to provide more capacity for digital and data services. Comcast has better technology strategy focus on freeing up spectrum. It also include wide deployment of switched digital, improvements in MPEG-2 encoding efficiency, and analog reclamation, including the possibility of going all digital before the end of 2006. Comcast currently has nearly two-thirds of its video subscribers using digital services, also plans to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 in order to offer very high speed data services. Therefore I think this program will help Comcast compete better with satellite and IPTV services. []

Content here. IPTV offers several key advantages that benefit customers. A main advantage is high capacity two way communication. This feature will allow consumers to interact in new ways such as video blogs and interactive shopping. Another advantage is that every consumer can pick their own broadcasts. Other features include ability to pause, rewind, and review all programming eliminating the need for a dvd system. IPTV is the future of television, however there are several cons to the system. One major problem is low bandwidth of most houses. This leads to poor connection and slow to no streaming content. Each television will need a box, which are costly. [|http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~tsigas/Courses/DCDSeminar/Files/IPTVrapport.pdf] []
 * Pros and Cons of IPTV**(Brian Blubaugh)

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