Back in the 1990s, people surf the Internet using their phone lines with dial-up modem. Things have changed quite a bit now. These days, we make phone calls over the Internet either through DSL, cable, WLAN, or other medium of connections. This trend seems to take another step further with not only having voice communicate over the Internet, but for video as well. The Internet will be a disruptive technology on the future of video delivery and rich media contents. Traditional television broadcast, in particular, may see a huge shift of users using their Internet connection to watch tv shows, movies, and daily news. In Computer Science, topic areas in distributed systems and peer-to-peer networks will be important on the future of IPTV.
