An IPTV service model for the multi-world

Technology trends indicate that in the Internet world, video content gets created, delivered, consumed rather differently compared to the traditional broadcast TV. This necessitates the next gen IPTV systems to incorporate capabilities for addressing the needs of these emerging markets, to satisfy both the service provider and the service consumer effectively. Trends bring out a ldquomultirdquo factor that is emerging vividly to suit the needs of this new consumer - be it with respect to the multiple service providers depending on the content of choice at a given point of time, or the multiple devices being used for consumption of this content at any given location, or the interaction models with these devices depending on the capabilities, and so on. In this paper we propose a service model to address these various factors.