PPS.tv is a Chinese peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...

 streaming video network

Internet television

Internet television is the digital distribution of television content via the Internet...

 software. Since the target users are on the Chinese mainland, there is no official English version, and the vast majority of channels are from East Asia, mostly Mainland China

Mainland China

Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China . According to the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council, the term excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and...

, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 and Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. Programmes vary from Chinese movies to Japanese anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

, sports channels, as well as popular American TV and films.

It had a 8.9% market share in China in Q3 2010, placing it third - behind Youku and Tudou.

Applications

It can broadcast TV programs stably and smoothly to broadband users. Compared to traditional streaming media, PPS adopts P2P-streaming technology and supports high-volume traffic; several hundred thousand users can watch a live stream at 300-500 Kbps using only one server with a 5-10 Mbps connection.

However, there is a downside. For those who share the same line with PPStream users under a low bandwidth internet connection, they will face the problem where the whole internet bandwidth will be used by the software, making internet surfing almost impossible.

See also

• PPLive
  PPLive
  PPTV, developed by PPLive, is a leading online TV service offering both live streaming and video-on-demand of TV programs/shows, movies, drama, sports, news and entertainment video contents. The service is accessible either from its website or from client software installation...
  
  
• CoolStreaming
  CoolStreaming
  CoolStreaming is a P2PTV technology that enables users to share television content with each other over the Internet. The technology behind CoolStreaming is similar to that of BitTorrent. The viewers upload content at the same time the programs are downloaded and viewed...
  
   - a precedent of PPLive
• Joost
  Joost
  Joost is an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis . During 2007-8 Joost used peer-to-peer TV technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in late 2008 this was migrated to use a Flash-based Web player instead.Joost began development in 2006...
  
  
• QQLive
  QQLive
  QQlive is a live streaming video freeware created by Tencent, which takes advantages of advanced P2P streaming media technology to ensure program keep fluency with many people viewing at the same time. It attracts 3,000,000 visitors per day.- Introduction :...
  
  
• Icecast
  Icecast
  Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source...
  
  
• Peercasting
  Peercasting
  Peercasting is a method of multicasting streams, usually audio and/or video, to the Internet via peer-to-peer technology. It can be used for commercial, independent, and amateur multicasts. Unlike traditional IP Multicast, peercasting can facilitate on-demand content delivery.-Operation:It usually...
  
  
• PeerCast
  PeerCast
  PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007...
  
   - A similar project
• MediaBlog
  MediaBlog
  MediaBlog is software that distributes almost all kinds of streams on P2P network based on VLC player. The main idea of MediaBlog come from PeerCast and BitTorrent....
  
  
• QVOD