In an announcement culminating 18 months of negotiations, the cable industry this week agreed to carry public broadcasters' digital multicast signals in addition to their primary HD signal. The ...

As viewers watch more streaming video content and cancel their cable/satellite subscriptions, broadcast stations have been doubling down on free ad supported over-the-air (OTA) television, a business ...

Multicasting allows networked devices to send data to a group of machines without having to make multiple copies of that data. This allows for efficient communication between large numbers of devices, ...

A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for myriad purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network ...

When Netflix streamed the Paul/Tyson fight to a record-breaking 65 million simultaneous viewers, it wasn’t all smooth sailing. Many viewers were left frustrated by buffering, freezes, and audio-sync ...

Sinclair’s free, over-the-air multicast networks CHARGE, Comet and ROAR delivered exceptional ratings performance throughout November, driven by a combination of hit programming, franchise expansions, ...

In this article I explain how the Linux kernel manages multicast traffic and how it is possible to interact with it by simply patching some kernel code. Although this is a rather specific topic, it ...

I want be able to bring an IPTV box (provided by my parents ISP) from my parents house into my house and watch TV I used pivpn to setup a wireguard vpn server at parents house I created a separate ...

The foundational technology that enables Apple devices to seamlessly find printers and other devices is called mDNS, part of ...