Internet TV is basically defined as the ability to view video streams over the Internet. The primary models for Internet television are streaming Internet TV or selectable video on an Internet location typically a website. While in the past reduced bandwidth has confined the images to small windows and grainy resolutions, newer codecs like DivX and increased speeds of broadband have created extremely high quality images in sizes around 320 by 200. As the size of the images increases, the size of the picture points also increases creating a less defined picture.

Today - with the increase in Internet connection speeds, advances in technology, the increase of total number of people online, and the decrease in connection costs - it has become increasingly common to find traditional television content over the Internet. In addition to this, new Internet-only television content has appeared. Very few cable and satellite television stations stream the same content over the Internet, thus protecting the cable systems' contracted "right of first use" for the content.

Some of the ways in which Internet delivered television is used include watching on a regular TV (via a direct connection from a computer or a Set-top box), or on a computer, or on a portable device (such as a mobile phone) show a channel 'live' (like regular TV), or allow the viewer to select a show to watch on demand ("Video-on-Demand" or VOD). Many sites that stream Internet broadcasts have moved to using Flash for videos since it employs vector graphic technology as opposed to turning every bit on and off. Many sites utilize the built-in media player to display the streamed video.

Few televisions are directly connected to the computer or Internet as a television source. Some sites are working to improve the Internet television model by centralizing access to myriad of existing resources in a single site.

My ABOUT ME page [ www dot fantasy-tv dot com   (with the dash)] shows a good example of a Free site that integrates web tv resources into a single source resource for finding streaming internet TV and VOD. The requirement of remembering hundreds of web ids is reduced to a single site with links to the sites providing Internet TV