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Featured Speakers
Joleen Winther Hughes
Principal and Founder, MediaTech Law Group
Legal perspectives on IPTV
Joleen Winther Hughes, co-founder of
MediaTech Law Group,
represents a wide range of clients on matters
involving entertainment, content and digital media technology and related consumer products and services.
A proficient strategic business attorney, Joleen teams with corporate counsel and business groups to
negotiate transactions, develop and negotiate cutting edge business models, and develop legal strategy
around business models.
Formerly, Ms. Hughes was senior counsel at RealNetworks, Inc., for seven years where she provided a broad
array of legal and business services to RealNetworks' worldwide global media operations. She was an
essential member of the RealNetworks' team that created MusicNet, the first legal, multi-label digital
music distribution initiative, and developed the legal templates and planned agreements for many of
RealNetworks' revolutionary digital media subscription consumer products and services including Rhapsody
and RealOne.
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What is IPTV?
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) describes technologies that allow video programming to be
delivered using an IP-based network, as opposed to traditional delivery via radio waves or coaxial
cable. IPTV can be used to deliver both live content and stored, on-demand video.
What is the potential of IPTV?
IP-based video distribution promises significant advantages, including the ability to integrate
television with other IP-based services like high speed Internet access and VoIP. Using a single
network for both data and video distribution potentially allows for significant savings over
maintaining a separate coaxial plant.
A switched IP network also allows for the delivery of significantly more content and functionality.
Content remains within a defined network, and only the content the customer selects is sent into
the customer's device. That frees up bandwidth, and the customer's choice is less restricted by the
bandwidth of the last-mile network.
An IP-based platform also allows significant opportunities to make the TV viewing experience more
interactive and personalized.
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