By Haining

Televisions have long been indispensable for modern living and leisure activities of urban dwellers, but many people find it hard to catch all their favorite TV programs due to the increasingly workload. Fortunately, we are blessed to have IPTV with the development of technology, which makes our city life more exciting, joyous and colorful.

Take Mr. Zhang for example, he is a young couch potato working with the sales and marketing department. The first thing for him to do after returning home from the office is to turn on the Television. Topping the list of his must-watch programs is the news program, and he will also never miss an episode of cool TV series. In order to watch TV in a more comfortable way, Zhang’s family has changed their TVs one after another, starting from the initial large-screen TV to the current plasma one, all of them being high-end products when they were purchased. Even so, Mr. Zhang still has some trouble in watching TV, as his busy work often keeps him working overtime until 7 p.m. or 8 p.m., which means most of the programs aired during the premier time bid him goodbye when he returns home. And sometimes, he has to answer phone calls from customers when watching exciting soccer matches, making him prone to miss the goal scenes after finishing the conversations absent-mindedly. All Mr. Zhang could do is to give a dry smile when facing these situations until the day he applied for the service of IPTV at the recommendation of his friends, which ushered him into the fresh era of“Digital TV”.

• n At 6:45 p.m., Mr. Zhang is still strolling down the street on his way back to home, in contrast to his usual hurrying back to watch the‘News Bulletin at 7 p.m.’He will no longer worry about missing the news program as his digital TV has already recorded the program on the servers, which enables him to watch any programs recorded in the inventory with the remote controller. For his interested programs he can even choose to replay them without having to watch the annoying commercials in between the programs. This has greatly enhanced his efficiency in watching TV.
• n The phone rings when the exciting soccer match of the English FA Premier League is just aired in the mid-way, but Mr. Zhang is in no hurry to finish the conversation as he will no longer miss any goal scene because the IPTV service will enable him to pause, backtrack or replay for any long as 30 minute footage of any live programs. From now on, he will no long worry about missing any episode!
• n The live entertainment program is now at the stage of online guessing for a prize, which Mr. Zhang is also participating with much gusto. Right, it is the remote controller instead of a fixed line telephone or mobile phone with which he participates in the guessing program. IPTV helps Mr. Zhang get away with the usually tiresome patterns of sending SMS or dialing information inquiry numbers, as he can participate with the remote controller easily and directly.
• Now he is sitting in front the TV set with the telephone in hand, talking while watching the TV screen. He is conversing with the person in the TV, as IPTV offers video communication services to subscribers, enabling the caller and the person being called to see other on the TV screens during their telephone chats.
• With the mouse in hand, Mr. Zhang is again sitting in front of the TV, but this time, he is surfing the Internet, instead of watching TV. The“IPTV service”is able to provide Internet connection service for subscribers, making the TV set a tool to surf the Internet, replacing the traditional computers.

You will be wrong if you think that Mr. Zhang has bought a new TV with these powerful functions; it is still the original TV. The only difference is that a set-top IPTV box has been installed on the TV set, and is connected to Internet via the ADSL broadband Internet connection service. In this way, a common TV set is transformed into a super TV set, while Mr. Zhang has also lived up to his fame of being a‘super couch potato’.

Photos:

1. The Super TV set and the super couch potato.

2. Experience the digital lifestyles.