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 Screenshot of PPS.tv homepage | |
| Developer(s) | PPStream, Inc. |
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| Initial release | 1 June 2006 (2006-6-1) |
| Stable release | 3.8.22.2677 / 30 March 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-30) |
| Operating system | Windows,Mac OS X,Ubuntu,iOS,Android |
| Platform | Peer-to-peer streamingInternet television |
| Size | 28.9M |
| Available in | Chinese |
| Type | Run inpeer-to-peer streaming media |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | pps |
PPS.tv (PPStream) is a Chinesepeer-to-peer streamingvideo network software. Since the target users are on the Chinese mainland, there is no official English version, and the vast majority of channels are fromEast Asia, mostlyMainland China,Japan,South Korea,Hong Kong,Taiwan,Malaysia, andSingapore. Programmes vary from Chinese movies to Japaneseanime, sports channels, as well as popular American TV and films.[1]
It had an 8.9% market share in China in Q3 2010, placing it third, behindYouku andTudou.[2] In May 2013, the online video business of PPS.tv was purchased byBaidu for $370 million. After the acquisition, PPS.tv continued to operate as a sub-brand underiQIYI, Baidu's online video platform.[3]
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 one's uploads, bandwidth increases the round trip time for webpage requests, making web browsing while using PPS.tv difficult.
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