To understand how IPTV digital video distribution works, think of your LAN Network as a river of data moving down from IPTV Head-End, to the users who need to receive the video data streams. The IPTV Head-End is a set of devices dedicated to acquire video from a wide range of sources, including satellite, terrestrial off-air, digital cable, HDMI, SDI, CVBS, IP, etc. and convert it to an appropriate format for IPTV distribution. There are basically three methods to distribute IPTV content [...]