Streaming Media Services: The New Revolution
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Streaming media services is the term used for the services related to streaming video and streaming audio. The accurate definition of the streaming media services is that it is a service related to the audio/media which is sent in a compressed form over the Internet for an audience. Streaming media services are beneficial to the users because these dont have to wait for downloading a large file, before actually watching it or listening to it. This is because the audio/video media is sent to the audiences in a continuous stream.
The audiences need a player which actually is a program used for uncompressing and sending the video data to the display system and audio data to the speaker system. The player is very essential to watch or listen to the media.
Broadly, streaming media services can be categorized into two categories; streaming audio services and streaming video services. Lets briefly discuss each.
* Streaming audio services Streaming audio services is largely represented by Internet radio. It is a system of broadcasting audio through Internet. Sometimes it is also known as web casting because the audio is not transmitted through wires but through a wireless system over the Internet. In technical terms, it is a streaming medium that provides the listeners with a continuous audio stream on which they don't have any control which is also true in the case of traditional radio. However it should not be confused with Pod casting which involves downloading an audio file and there are some copyright issues. Internet radio doesn't involve on-demand file serving. Internet radio can be accessed from any place in the world which means that you can listen to Internet radio being broadcasted from Australia, while sitting in the U.S. This has become so popular because listeners are getting bored with their local radio and they want to enjoy something new, in terms of both programming and music. The variety in programming can be adjudged from the fact that Internet radio offers talkback, news, sports and various genres of music. * Streaming video services Streaming video services is basically related to the online video services such as you tube, Google video and many others. Here streaming video services basically means the online videos that can be viewed over the Internet without downloading the complete video file first. The viewers can continuously watch the video. However, the experience depends on the bandwidth being received by that viewer. Currently, streaming video services are very popular around the globe. Streaming media services have revolutionized the media services all over the world and as the current indicators suggest that in the future, it would definitely overshadow the traditional media services.
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