PPS.tv

PPS.tv (PPStream) is a Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network 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, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore. Programmes vary from Chinese movies to Japanese anime, sports channels, as well as popular American TV and films.[1]

Not to be confused with PPTV.
PPS.tv
Screenshot of PPS.tv homepage
Developer(s)PPStream, Inc.
Initial release1 June 2006 (2006-06-01)
Stable release
3.8.22.2677 / 30 March 2015 (2015-03-30)
Operating systemWindows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, iOS, Android
PlatformPeer-to-peer streaming Internet television
Size28.9M
Available inChinese
TypeRun in peer-to-peer streaming media
LicenseFreeware
Websitepps.tv

It had an 8.9% market share in China in Q3 2010, placing it third - behind Youku and Tudou.[2] In May 2013, the online video business of PPS.tv was purchased by Baidu for $370 million. After the acquisition, PPS.tv continued to operate as a sub-brand under iQIYI, Baidu's online video platform.[3]

Applications

However, the nature of peer to peer serving means that each user of the system is also a server. The upload speed of standard home broadband connections is usually a fraction of the download speed, so several upload sources may be required by each additional peer. Additionally, on services with high contention ratios or poorly configured switches, large numbers of people attempting to use the service may slow all internet usage to unusable speeds. Acting as an upload server to the limit of ones upload bandwidth increases the round trip time for webpage requests, making web browsing while using PPS.tv difficult.

gollark: Why did you download 200 million NPM packages? Do you WANT suffering‽
gollark: Well, it doesn't really, but some people say stupid things about it.
gollark: Hmm, that actually is better.
gollark: Although that wouldn't be *annoying*, I would actually like that if it was funny and done well.
gollark: Wasps who design lotteries and write C code extremely poorly due to bizarre beliefs about the nature of free will?

See also

References
  1. PPS Internet television official website, The Global Biggest Internet television service, 2010. (in Chinese)
  2. "China's online video market posts $93.15 mln in Q3 revenue". casbaa. Archived from the original on 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  3. Shu, Catharine (7 May 2013). "Baidu Confirms $370M Purchase Of PPS, Underscoring Online Video's Importance For Internet Companies Around The World". Tech Crunch.


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