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There are more than 5,000 network TV stations in the Internet and many of them have very good content. Compared with traditional cable TV, most users can only watch network TV content via web browsers, which brings them great inconvenience.
This paper proposes a concept of MVPN (Media Virtual Private Network) as a delivery method of IPTV. The structure of MVPN can offer five Like! TV's user interface according to consumer’s user behaviors, to satisfy different age level users’ demands. We invited around 300 of overseas Chinese and Taiwan businessmen locate in 44 countries to join the test of proving the Media VPN IPTV structure can provide well-acceptable global service with one system at one place. This system utilizes emulated transmission technology to adaptively adjust the most appropriate video quality based on current usable bandwidth. This study tries to find an approach which is different from the mainstream P2P and Client / Server implements, to achieve cost-effective global wide area network television services.
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